On the Bench - Summer 2009

Thank you for your comments, critiques and suggestions, G.

What a wonderful fine shot and point of view.

Although I have one remark, but perhaps that is personal.

What a pity that it is digital.

If it was a negative, the sunlight was much softer.

 

With kind greetings.

Giuseppe,

 

Seeing you return to Photo.net is a sight for 'sore eyes'.

 

I won't belabor the point.

 

Wonderful to have you back.

 

You were greatly missed.

 

Let your needs be known here in the States, my 'sight with sore eyes'.

 

We seem to be 'two of a kind' in some ways this summer . . . .

 

But now both are getting the final bits fixed up and strengthening. I am sure my photography is actually just as strong or stronger, and I am sure the same for you.

 

Photography, my dear friend, is in your blood.

 

It courses through all your sensibilities, I think.

 

At this point in your development, it now has taken on a life of its own. You could no longer take a 'snapshot' without artistic merit if you tried. Cartier-Bresson had some personal photos which a reviewer was allowed to see, and the reviewer pronounced each one a 'masterpiece' which had hitherto been unseen.

 

Cartier-Bresson said (in English), "Really, I had just thought them just to be a snapshots', quite matter of factly.

 

It was impossible for Cartier-Bresson to take a 'snapshot' at that point in his career with his highly developed skills.

 

I always refused to take snapshots - even of tourists when they handed me their cameras (I took inventive and very good photos and could only imagine how my photos of them stood out as 'different' when they processed the results at home in Japan, Germany, Sweden or wherever.

 

Giuseppe, you have 'special vision' which now is both highly developed and 'evolving, which is wonderful because it means that you are learning and what you are leaning is forming the foundation each next move forward in your style, without kicking the underpinnings out of your already well-developed current style(s).

 

I feel you growing, and unlike some who grow in linear fashion, I feel your growth to be logarithmic, or at least exponential.

 

It is both wonderful to see and to experience this both as a viewer and friend.

 

You are getting better and better and more bold and inventive too, as time passes -- all with the extraordinary image quality (IQ) that is trademark for you.

 

You managed that 'image quality' when your camera was not 'first rate' and your lens was middle quality, but you were just a 'high quality' photographer.

 

Which proves the adage, it's not the camera (though the camera and lens help greatly), it's the photographer.

 

In this case, it's Giuseppe Pasquali, photographer, (and humanitarian).

 

I think you will find, as I have, that your work will have even more clarity, and of course, you will be ever more grateful for every shot now.

 

I know I have experienced that, now that I have gained a 'second chance'.

 

I am eternally grateful to be allowed that second chance, and I point the thanks for that directly to you . . . . and would like the world to know what a genuinely saintly person you have been, (without otherwise elaborating), other than to say Giuseppe Pasquali, as far as I can say, is just about the highest quality individual one could imagine encountering in a lifetime . . . . . all without anyone's prodding or suggestion, or any hesitation on my part in writing that of my own accord.

 

It is wonderful to see you posting your work again.

 

Life is about 'second chances' sometimes and sometimes third and fourth, chances too.

 

We all have setbacks - sometimes they come not only in ones, twos, threes and fours. Sometimes it appears life throws as many as it can at us, trying to knock us down.

 

It does knock some of us 'down and out', but others arise like Phoenixes.

 

(My best to your better half, MP with eternal thanks for her 'urging' and support.)

 

And my eternal thanks to the both of you, said in a place where it is publicly stated.

 

You have helped me attain a 'second chance', for which my thanks are absolutely genuine - and now I am 'free'.

 

Photographer 10/10

 

Photo (unrated) (but extremely good)

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

A strong light composiiton

Beautiful contrast and composition...Saludos.

I like the flooding light from BG and whatit does to the FG trees. Beautiful moment and timing, as well as B/W conversion. The human figure is very significant to the human /nature connection.

the man looks as if after a long search for light he finally found it and couldn't stop contemplating its beauty. The play of the trees and their shadows in the foreground create a mysterious, nearly mystical atmosphere. I love the way the man's head is tilted, probably in a gesture of amazement and admiration. The light is the main attraction here, agree with Joke, a bit softer would work even better. Interesting and intriguing anyway, best regards.

A strong image with excellent light and composition! Regards.

It is an image with a strong story to tell and a wonderful b/w photograph. Bravo.

 

Cheers; Bela

and all the others who left such comments. This work is quite a sad, harsh one, and the man was looking hopelessly to a parking lot while a few steps away a beautiful sunset was coloring the sea. Thank you so much, Giuseppe