Bon Voyage

This is art. really like it.

this is quite brilliant, i mean really brilliant, it has whimsy, orignality, timing, toning, composition, and a certain something that i can't describe, but i can feel - bravo!

I would love to see this in print.

This should have a rating of 9, 9 on average. Its sad that idiots rate this photo in such a way as to only have 7 ,7 as an average.

On a site with so few great photos you have one of the best. Wow this shot rocks. Awsome.

Truly an amazing image. Besides a fantastical subject, your technique is flawless. Apparently, truth is stranger than fiction, and I'm sure people will continue to ask you if this is real.

What an extraordinary pick !!! I just cant stop waching it ! Congratulations !!!!

I must just agree with above comments. But i saw the colorize version at Your homepage on the calendar and it is much better than B/W only, which is showed here. Did you colorize by photoshop or by hand?

theres not anything i can add to all the above comments other than dam i wish it was mine its fantastic

I was there, sitting on the beach, wrapped up in my towel, my feet covered with sand, hair blowing in all direcions waiting for the appoaching storm. I felt the wind on my face, and breathed in the great salty ocean air. I felt it all, in your 'Bon Voyage' Thanks for sharing it with the world.

I'm not an experienced photographer but every picture in your folder seems to be a masterpiece in my eyes.

Very impressive folder. Love your work.

The waving seal is priceless. Great work.

I'd give you 10\10

Titles make or break a well made photo (either its concept or its pictorial appearance). In this case the sail boat is frivolous and distracting and it is further focused upon by the title. The surreal nature of the turbulent sea scape with the seal in front (which almost has a Photoshop placement look to it, but that matters not because it is effective regardless of how it came to be) is a "memorable" photograph, but the sailboat/title actually dimninishes what is a "surreal" and/or potential beginning point of a sequence of similar studies in this direction. So, either way, single photo or beginning of a sequence, get rid of the boat and watch out for Cliches of this type or what in design is known as a disturbing spot. If that boat was not there this would be a 10 - but frankely the boat reduces the unique quality of this photograph to a 5. Its that disturbing!

 

If you can, have a high quality (100mg) scan made and take out the boat and you then have arrived. Also watch the titles. If you have ever observed a museum visitor looking at work the very first thing most look at is the title, thereby biasing their response and involvement in the work. Keep titles simple (not like untitled) but perhaps "Coastline, 1998" or "Seal, Northern California" - some type of title which creates a straight forward local oriented or object oriented 1st look. Then the viewer has to be involved in the photograph on their on. The title keeps them in their own sphere of interpretation (or at least trying to figure out why the title was so simple when the image is so complex).

 

Erik