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David, I don't know where you find these models, but I am glad that you do. What I appreciate about much of your work is your reminder that there is a multiplicity of beauty to be found in the natural female form; and not just the manufactured standard that marketing and commercial interests foist upon us.

 

Excellent work (as usual) Dave.

The sticks do not bother me. There is something very "Ray" about it, something almost off of the cover of a 1964 high school geometry textbook. Something that comes forth in amost all of your compositions, no matter what the subject.

 

You do very well with color my friend. I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

Worst photo of the day! So who is Harry Goldhoorn?

You did this with your phone? Your PHONE???

 

Damn

 

Kellen, I am about as impressed with you as I can get.

 

Wow

Best photograph of the day.

Yes -- she is.

Very good my friend. (8[>

The composition is fine Tony although the bottom left corner seems out of place. But then you couldn't crop it out without concurrently slicing off part of the pistil tube.

 

There is something definitely erotic about this pink mass of floral genitalia.

I am only giving credit where credit is due.

See what I mean? It's your angle that elevates these photos of yours.

This is spectacular Dan. I don't need to go into my usual verbiage. For once I am just going to shut up and admire something stunning (other than Jim Adams Polaroids)!

Well Dan, that gull-winged thing did have a certain charm in her day I reckon. And she was certainly more aestetically pleasing in lines than any of her carrier-bourne shipmates of the time. Sitting next to a SB2C or a TBM, even my ex-wife would have looked good.

Very nice shot Dan! I love the nontraditional point of view. The C-47 (and that is what this was built as -- NOT a DC3)was one of the three or for greatest and most beautiful designs in history. Others being the Lockheed Constellation, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Lockheed F104.

 

I have always been impressed with the angles you shoot from. This is what separates your work from the rest. There are those industrial/abstract qualities that I find so eye-pleasing. There are a a lot of us who can make the occassional airshow shot, but it takes a real artist with an eye like yours for great work like this.

 

Dan, are you familiar with the American Modernist painter and photographer Charles Scheeler? He made some very dramitic photos of the (then brand-new) Ford Tri-motor. His angles of view were similar to yours.

Patrick, if you shoot primarily in B&W there is no reason to pay someone else to do any of it. It runs about 25 cents per roll to soup your own negatives and most cheap flatbed scanners will work well enough for web posting quality. Is that as good as a fine optical print? Of couse not! But if your primary venue is the web you have little need of an enlarger. The only darkroom you need is about two minutes worth -- just enough to roll your film onto the spool and drop it into the cocktail shaker. You can do that in a closet or bathroom.

Good job Patrick! I never noticed your work until now and took a moment to peek at your portfolio. There are some rather well done candid portraits here.

 

Playing around with Polaroid is always fun (if getting expensive).

Nice work Kyle. I'll be frank; this is about the very first high color saturation photo that I have ever liked. Usually I find them far to garrish for my muted taste. But here I see something else entirely. Here there is a warm glow more like in a piece of 17th century Italian painting.

Sam you old horned-toad you, I have not seen you post for quite some time. From this self-portrait I get the feeling that you must have been watching "Easy Rider" on DVD too many times.

I enjoy it very much. This is the kind of photography I love to see.

A superb composition pan Wysocki. My highest regards!

This is a wonderful environmental portrait that makes excellent use of space. Perhaps Poland should be known for more than just having Europe's best vodka and most beautiful women.

 

 

Is that pan Falcman? Please tell him I send my warmest regards.

No improvement could be made here. This is as close to perfection as photography ever will get.

 

Nothing in our art is better to use than a fine twin lens reflex and a roll of B&W film.

 

Nothing!

 

I salute your artistry and great talent.

This reminds me either of Monet, or looking through one of those glass showerstall doors. Either way Kellen, it is nicely done. See, I am begining to accept the Brave New World of digital manipulation as other than just a passing fad. (But please don't tell anyone else I said so.)

I think I saw one of these land at Lages Air Base in the Azores about 1971 or '72. It was about the weirdest looking large jet I had ever seen. Your photo certainly shows this at its best and most pleasing angle.

Really Bea? I was begining to think that this site should be renamed "Over-Saturated Sunsets.net."

Classic and very elegant. My highest regards.