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many thanks for your visit, nice comment and compliment!

With best regards,

Ruud.

Hello Ruud:


It has been a while since I have been active in PN, being involved in a personal project that is taking up some time. Nonetheless, I "went out for a walk in the park and realm of photography" to get a "breath of fresh air", pleased to visit your "corner" once again, especially the portfolio on Bicycles. Great work, as always. This one I like for the artistic composition, superbly balancing both subjects, and your BW is always impeccable.

And last but no least, it has become increasingly difficult to find more work like this. A side comment, with your kind permission: When I go to see photo of the day, I am surprised at the prevalent images of bare subjects. Out of the 12 thumbnails of the first page in that section 8 out of 12 (66.7%)! are bare women, only to continue in the following page. An interesting phenomenon to think about, both on the photographers choosing this as the subject, and on the audience of PN rating these images.

I have nothing whatsoever against this type of photos or unclothed subjects (for some reason the word describing it has been fire-walled), much less of "artistic" photos of bare subjects, and not prudish in the very least. It is just a trend I am observing in PN since I first joined, and personally, somehow disappointed.

My apologies for this sidetracked personal note. 

Kind regards.