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Is THAT Who I THINK It Is?


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Sheriffs deputies make an arrest, and an apparition appears.

'Is THAT who I THINK it is?' . . .

And if so, why has he come?

From my 'Nothing Serious Contained Herein' folder, where ratings don't

count so much, as most seriousness is banned from that folder.

However, still, your ratings and critiques are invited and most welcome.

If you rate harshly or very critically, or just want to be heard, please

submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! John

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i love it. very nice i like the focus on the car and not on "jesus"

sorry but i haven't a "constructive critique" for you.

all that i can say is KEEP SHOOTIN'

bravo

bye

 

gabriele

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You post a photo with specular highlights - even blown and pixellated, but the content rules and for some, if it's interesting or weird enough someone will like it greatly, which is why I post something like this.

 

It's my special 'sense of humor', I guess or just my sense of the surreal or the absurd.

 

Jesus in Hollywood.

 

Now that's a laugh.

 

Of course, he's an actor.

 

Beneath the land of tinsel and glitter lies more tinsel and glitter, all captured in main by the paparazzi, (and me, the anti-paparazzo)

 

I accept your invitation to keep shooting, but not celebrities.

 

Who needs them to make a decent photo?

 

John (Crosley)

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The focus was more 'accidental' than 'on purpose'.

 

I would like to take credit for everything that pleases you but not in this instance.

 

But I did choose this one to show, which is next best thing in my book, despite an 'iffy' focus on Jesus's stand-in.

 

Now, where is Mary Magdalene?

 

Pontius Pilate?

 

;~))

 

John (Crosley)

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You're such a cynic.

 

I love your comment.

 

Of course if he's the 'real deal' if someone gives him a dollar, he can split it into a million dollars and pass it out . . .. and the same with everything else (loaves and fishes miracle story).

 

And don't sell short someone who by dogma has 'risen from the dead' -- something I don't believe I have mastered yet and don't expect to master. Maybe he has a trick or two up his very large sleeves?

 

;~))

 

John (Crosley)

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This is a fantastic shot; opens up a host of interpretations. I wish you had not underlined the fact that it was a person dressed up...of course, I do not think the apparition bit would have been bought by many but still, it created an aura (no pun intended) of mystery which you have now removed.

 

The face of the subject clinches the shot...that look is worth more than a thousand words. I find the glare distracting, but not enough to take my attention away from the subject. And I love the "Hollywood" bit in the background...

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You write of an 'aura' and seem to (minimally) 'fault me' for disclosing this fellow's an 'actor'.

 

Now, of course, who else would he be?

 

If I had taken a real photo of 'Jesus' I would be stepping forward for the Pulitzer Prize in Photography at the next Awards Ceremony, and I would be (as the Beatles said) 'More Famous Than Christ', a phrase that got them a lot of heat in the mid '60s, or a little later.

 

So, no real 'secret' revealed.

 

If it's an 'aura' - then it's probably an 'aura' of 'mystery, since those two are almost one phrase - right?

 

How better to treat the re-incarnated Jesus than to present him as stepping in, on or around an 'aura' of light.

 

You (mildly) criticize 'glare', yet I think you're not criticizing the 'glare' as internal reflections near his hands, but instead the significant glare set forth from the sheriff's car top rotating red and blue lights suppressed to 'more normal' in the black and white conversion.

 

So, I've presented Jesus next to a cop car at an 'aura' of light. How else best to present him?

 

Standing on the street corner?

 

I had hoped my view would be seen as 'symbolic' which is why I deliberately framed this shot in the first instance - knowing he'd be framed thusly and appear somewhat in, on, or near and 'aura'.

 

Frankly, I posted this 'Just for Fun' and am surprised at the rather good amount of attention it's received.

 

I hardly expected it, but I 'had to post it'.

 

I also posted it in a decidedly 'lesser' portfolio - one that hasn't seen a post in a very long time -- months or years.

 

I just basically posted it for personal reasons - ones of vanity and to share it with the few who would appreciate it, (or share my personal sense of the absurd or surreal represented by this) Too bad there are not a playground of children present, running around Jesus.. . . .

 

So, I'm surprised at somewhat good ratings and interesting (and interested) comments, as I expected this was a 'throwaway' post - one wasted on raters, but of three posted on the 15th (and good ones in my estimation) thius has done best of all in rating, to my surprise.

 

You're always invited to comment, your comments are always taken (even if with a smile) with appropriate seriousness, and I know they always come from a place of ernestness and truthfulness, so I invite many more.

 

Thank you for your comment next above.

 

May there be many more.

 

John (Crosley)

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