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Dear Arnold, firstly I thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, and I apologize in advance if my english is unclear.

I was of your advice until one day I was roaming around in a museum, with pictures by, but not only, Man Ray, but also peculiar objets (Marcel Duchamp) and a square, a simple white square (Malevitch). And suddenly it occured to me, that all these objets could be defined in many ways. Was Malevitch's square a painting, a sculpture or a layout? Were Man Ray's "Rayogrammes" photographs? drawings? or (as he put himself) "Rayogrammes" ?...From that day on it became obvious to me that maybe we could care about the definition of the work but you cannot subtract it from the INTENTION of the artist. So this picture above is a photograph, because it is MY INTENTION to be such.

Now I just can't leave without the following questions:

- Who can decide "a posteriori" which elements of this picture are real? That is reason of this picture. A "pied de nez" to reality. Someone objected the boat reflection is unreal... he was wrong.

- How do you know "a posteriori" is this scene was not the real one?Because you have never seen a scene like that? Or because you don't BELIEVE?

- How many tranformations are we liable to accept in order to keep the definition "photograph"?

- And to finish, is a BW street photograph a more reliable representation of "reality"?

To resume. Its the INTENTION I gave to my work which defines what it is. I tell you... its a car you see.

I just thank you for posting a comment, yours sincerely, AM.

Please enjoy and feel free to comment.

Yours, AM.

Super portrait de Gerard. T'as pas eu as forcer...

J'ai repere le coin a singes ici, c'est a deux heures de route.

A+

Ah! enfin on se rafraichit. Spuer photo de saison...

A+

I hope you see an analogy with the last one I posted. In fact, I

found that the progressive blur as ones advances in the picture, on

the watering cans and here the fish, gave an extrordinary effect.

Like an extra dimension, to the print. I just had to continue! I hope

you enjoy, Yours, AM.

A really nice point of view.

As for your kind comment on "a rainy day"... its surely some relation you have with the rain... Yours, AM.

Franchement, j'ai vu de belles choses ici! J'adore tes photos d'enfant, et une certaine maitrise de la profondeur de champ (surtout avec un canon10D!).

Cordialement, AM.