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Fantastic Jim. Sorry I'm always a bit late on the comments. I just think the shadow should be more acute on the edgen and darker near its base (remove also the thin bright line on the bottom of the "apple"). Now I'm trying the think about a link between the sun king and the pepper...

Now since you made (as usual) such an interesting remark on surrealism (concerning one of my pics : moonset), I think one simple statement from Andre Breton should be considered : "surrealism is based on the belief of a superior reality of certain forms of associations, the overall power of dreams, the disinterested "game" of thought". This is bad literal translation, sorry. In respect of this, I think that most of your compositions, and "moonset", obey to this sentence. Of course all in a different way. Sorry such bad reply! Keep up all the great stuff, and really great to see you back. Amicalement, AM.

 

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Thanks Jim, you really LOOK at the picture (like listening and hearing...). I like this one because the statue on the right if the only shadowed one, and the tree replaces it, or marks the frontier. He was excluded!

Ah j'avais pas vu celle la...

Dommage on aurait pu se donner rendez-vous sur l'aubrac... a quelque jours pres.

C'est du faux. L'oiseau est empaille (ca se voit, il bouge pas!), la cigale est en plastique. Pour une pose de studio, c'est pas mal!!! Parcontre tu dois avoir une sacree collection de guepiers empailles ࠬa maison. Non, sans blague, superbe!

Remins me of a japanese photographer shown recently at Arles festival. Very nice... except the dark "aureole" around the red balloon. Yurs, AM

 

Welcome back Jim. Just hope your back with some good work... the first of a great series? Yours, AM

I like the idea, the grat textures. I'm not sure about the last pic. It doesn't fit with the others. J'attendrai pour trouver le trio ideal... bien a toi Virgil, AM

Tr賠belle composition Henry... Quelques details techniques a regler... Je pense savoir ou c'est... j'y suis pas loin. A+

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Une scene vraiment vivante. Superbe.

"Mind boggling", thats the title! Nice work "master"! All the best to REVAF! PS: not sure if I would have mirrored the pillars, but it sure does add some confusion (where does the light come from?) to the scene. Great concept. I suppose it did justice to your tendinitis!

Yours, AM

A school piece... two horizontal lines at 1/3, two black spots at 1/3, two lines of light at the top of the picture also at 1/3. Great composition.

Really nice work. It's just a pity it doesn't look too sharp. It doesn't bother me but I'm sure some wonder where is the photograph... It could be a picture of a painting! I like the fact that you took the liberty to play around on the frontier, and posted on PN! Yours, AM.

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Thanks for one of the nicest comments I've ever had. I thought you deserved that. Since you marvel at photo.net, catch the occasion to decide what "you" want to make out of photography, and work to it. Be very selective. One great one can be diluted by the less good. All the best and sorry for the "patronising" attitude. Yours, AM.

G鮩ale aussi. Lumiere un peu difficile car occulte un peu les couleurs, surtout par rapport aux photos sur fond vert.A+

Franchement, superbe attitude.

Superbe JP. J'aurai bien vu l'avant plan flou par l'effet du vent. Mais tr賠simple et beau comme l'essentiel de ton travail. COntinues... A+

Easy Joanna, as Ron put it (!), I just waste my time.

And we are all beheld Virgil. Great stuff; as I have already said. Yours AM.

Sorry, Virgil wrote " it would be interesting to know where does this obsession for ladders and ropes, with kids always going up, come from". My answer is the message above this one.

Thanks Virgil. (I will answer in english). In fact "Les t⣨es solaires" means "solar spots",but also "solar chores"... so I need some help for an english title...As for ladders and ropes, peolpe going up etc.. the explanation is simple. I always find that digital alterations look false and flat if the actors (sometimes digitally set on the picture) don't interact with the elements of the back and foreground. "Interacting" means needing a link of some kind like ladders. The spectators are also a recurrent element. They give the visual link for the spectator you are at the moment. The main idea behind all this is to give a depth in the picture. A certain depth so that the day I pass by (as late as posible!) someone can still see an obvious act of creation and get into the picture just as I did... and I hope you do. Obviously, the A3+ print gives more emphasis and depth to the actual work.

Yours, AM and thanks for your always generous comment.

Excellent picture, creative view... this is where you should push your portofolio! Cheers, AM

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