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Hi, I really need your comments here. I am hunted by the idea of how

time changes every thing, how even the most powerful things turn into

nothing with time, as if time is a continuous crushing machine.

Frankly speaking I myself can't judge this photo! and I don't have a

clear idea of what this photo is trying to say. I was passing by this

electronic repair shop and that clock had an instantaneous impact on

me, I was composing the frame when several ideas came into my mind,

the people who once owned these electronic devices;and how they used

these devises to entertain, enjoy, educate, and even make little sins.

Suddenly all these small pieces of metal and plastic started talking

to me! and I asked myself, what is it all about? Our advanced

technologies, our "lifetime achievements", our sins, everything

eventually is going to be crushed! So what life is about? We have the

capacity to rewind and fast forward events in our life for few months,

or at maximum few years, but if one has the imagination to rewind or

fast forward events in multiple of thousands or hundred of thousands

of years, one will be shocked, as if time does not make any sense

outside our frame of imagination! So here I have this machine

perfectly represented by the clock, crushing everything in its way

asking me to think and rethink! So what do you think?

I like very much the tones and atmosphere of this image. Very nice. Thanks for sharing. David

Original and effective technique, very nice result! Ciao Sergio

You do seem to like removing certain colours from images. I have to be honest and say it works very well. Making a shot look organised when any other person seeing this scene would have thought of disorganisation. Clever indeed.

Very nice, original

Very nice work!

Great composition, tonality and atmosphere! Regards, Einat.

Fantastic work you have done to this image... I totally love the colors in the image... Brilliant composition...

 

All the best, Jill

I really admire and like the effects you use on your images my dear friend. Also this is an amazing composition , it will go staright to my favs folder. Congrats.

Hayder... maybe you made this image because you knew it would be a challenge to post process it.....I feel you met the challenge very well ! (I am almost certain the stereo on the third shelf down on the left is mine. I am still waiting...in silence. )

 

This person's shop is a reflection of whom spends the most time in it...my guess this is a man's shop...just a feeling...an artist works here...with no one looking over his shoulder...

(I guess that's why stereo is not fixed yet)...

 

the kissing with the yellow and gold makes this a much warmer image than the questions you ask...for me any ways...I like this style of yours. The bottom left corner at first seemed distracting to me...but I soon realized it's the door into the image...calming gray.... to prepare you for the details...(and the wait for my stereo) ...

 

you mention the clock and the crushing...the thinking and rethinking...maybe you stopped to make this image just to post it on my birthday... to remind me to think about the 51 years of life that I have just finished stumbling on... ( i guess i sort of did a little crushing my self... that's why my stereo is in that shop...I know it! )

 

What's it all about... maybe it's what we want it to be...how we see it...today....attitude of gratitude...sometimes I feel like I work in a place just like this...sometimes it's the room I am in...sometimes it's the room in me...the clock reminds ...live now...hope that when those days of sitting around and waiting for the clock to stop you can remember the good old days...(hopefully my stereo will be fixed by then...some music would be good...)

 

One final note...another thing that really caught my eye...Luminosity...the chrome looks like chrome...and the plastic looks like plastic...it is what it is...fantastic...! juan

Funny thing, I saw a clustered space and went straight to the clock. I battle with the concept of time, which is why a goal of mine is, to have the feeling of timelessness all the time...I guess just being in tune with the flow of everything in life as it comes, accepting or fixing constantly....cool stuff

I enjoy your pp. It suits the picture perfect and your work is very consistent.

Your treatment of this shot is exceptional, I would be interested to see the original. When traveling I love to browse in such shops. I am always amazed at how modern technology marches forward at a phenominal pace, yet we are incapable of repairing technology of the past.