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Thank you Jonathan - and all the others for your nice words.

When talking about the method of taking photos in the Attic series - well, I've shot many self-portraits since now and I was many times surprised about the result. I think that the luck has has done a lot in my photos and maybe in art generally... or in our entire lifes themselves.

And yes, the mentioned series is not generally visible any more.

Hi Deb, I'm glad that you have found your own story in the image. It is always fascinating to see what different associations are made by different people when seeing the same image. Hope you have finally spread your wings...

Well, it was shot in Budapest :)

Anyway, thank you.

As the author of the photograph, firstly I would like to thank Landrum Kelly for his messages he sent me recently and thanks to which I came back to photo.net. Here I have found out that one of my old photos was chosen as the photo of the week. This was a big surprise for me, as I have not visited this server for quite a long time. As Landrum noticed correctly, the photo was created a few years ago, especially in august 2004. So it was 6 years ago and shortly after my 17th birthday. I started taking photos half a year before, app at the beginning of the year 2004. I uploaded photos on a local photo server (www.photopost.cz), where the comments from keen amateurs influenced my early work.

This series of photos was created under the roof of my grandma's house (loft/sollar), where the floor consists of old wood. It was used to store things that are not much used and also to store hay for animals. In fact the place with the hay is close to the window, where I was photographing. It was full of dust, spiders and so on.

When I started taking photos and seeing like a photographer, I noticed this quite a photogenic place at the window. So I grabbed my Olympus (small compact camera), layed it on the edge of an old paper box with some old things (I didnt have a tripod) and ran to the window to make a pose before the 10sec timer runs out. I repeated this for a few times - in the meantime the camera fell down in the dust of the box once or twice. I don't know how many shots were made, but I guess that not more than 20. I selected the best ones, cropped them in photoshop and I am not sure about more editing. The original files are somewhere in my backup hdd. At that time I didn't care much about technical quality, the photo was made in the automatic mode, I even didn't know what is the shutter speed and aperture at that time. So that is why the quality of the image is not the best.

I think that this series of photos is quite romantic, melancholic and may be considered as a kitsch, as well as some other older photos of mine. Three years ago I met some people, who were studying photography at the university as a distance study. We became friends, so I have made an application and I was admitted too. (They admit 30 out of 300 applicants). So besides my other studies (IT), I started also studying photography. The orientation of the school again influenced my work, so I started taking less romantic and more story-telling, social-like photos. But I must admit, that I do not take so many photos as before - mostly only the works for school subjects (see for example http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9319531).

In the first photos (up to 2007) I was either searching some interesting shapes, games of light, places etc and/or expressing my depression from the unhappy love relations. I still find the main inspiration for my works in my own emotions, but they are not any more purely negative.

Thank you very much for your comments, although it is possible I would appreciate them more at that time, in 2004. But it is also interesting to look at the older photo of mine from my current point of view and read your impressions about it. So again, thank you.

Hmm, interesting... Although I would like to have a little different composition, I like it.

Nice work... Makes me think about the meaning and that is good.

The only thing I miss is the bottom part of the photo - his leg and the floor...

look like gangsters from the Puzo's novels ;)

 

Well done..

Thank you very much :)

Some work for the "Photograpfic still-life" course - the creative part

of it :)

But although primarily just another work for school, I realized I put

a lot of myself in it (in fact 8/10 of the photo ;) ).

Fom the new "Baths" series. Thank you for your comments.

thanks for comments

From the visiting of the baths. Thank you for your comments.

Thank you for a very nice comment, Marco :) This is one of those older photos that I still like...

I like it :)

Thanks, Owen :)

My mother in our old cottage, with the "Zivot" magazines from the 1950's.

 

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you all for comments, I'm really glad you like it.

Thanks for your comments... If interested, look at the other photos

from the series.

Thanks a lot, I didn't except such an interest :)

You are right about the white in the middle, it may be a little too light in some areas... Thank for the attention.

From the series "In front of the supermarket" ... thank you for comments.

I love the feeling transmitted... especially the relation between the two people, two faces, both hands/arms, the hug... looks being loved, full of happiness :)

I like the view from below and the overall composition with the tree on the left and dog on the right... I would like to have it more contrast, but I accept that it may have been a purpose.. Well done :)

With the 300 mm from the balcony of my flat in Brno... All the

stories, people like a little figures on that grotesque floor of the

world...

 

Thank a lot for your comments :)

thank you for your comments

Thank you for comments.