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Brad, Amir; thanks for your kind comments. Amir, I have made some color adjustments on this image and that is all.

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Thanks Mark. I appreciate your encouraging words. It is good to know that someone else likes this image as much as I do.

 

Shawn, the lack of sharpness is due to the radial blur that I have added to give a sense of "celestial" rotation. This is still work in progress; I'll keep your suggestion in mind. Thanks.

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Thanks Shawn. I had no idea this would be the end product when I started playing with this image, but somehow this came out, and I am pleased with it.

 

Thanks Shawn. A ranch in Montana sounds like a fun place. I'll be checking out those photos.

Terry, Abilio: thanks for taking the time to comment.

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Thanks Shawn. I was just having some fun with the colors and textures.

Mystics tell us that in prayer the human and the divine meet. In the act of ritual ablution, the old man washes himself, of himself and of the world, with water, that pure and purifying elixir of life, as he prepares his soul to ascend to higher spiritual realms. His invocations and supplications rise to heaven to meet the divine barakah which descends down to earth--on the wings of doves. At this very moment, time takes on the color of eternity--it is a 'blissful' moment that lasts forever. It is a moment invisible to us as it can only be experienced firsthand but sometimes an artist's gaze succeedes in capturing that decisive moment and making that invisible reality visible for us. And we are grateful to him for that.

 

Mark, Tony, Cvetlena: thank you for taking the time to comment.

"It�s enough for light to fall on one half of a face/

Let the other half belong to the restful shadow" -R. Bly

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I guess it is whatever you make of it David; this was "abstracted" from a photo of a mechanical part of an old locomotive.

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