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I Love it.

I like this picture better in a small format as it is in the newsletter.
I am glad to see that the photo of the week is back.

I like it! Though it is too solitary, and I am not much in the mood for taking pictures of solitary places any more, neither to look at them. I guess I never was.
In this one there is something not about life, really.
Kristina

I like this one a lot! The flowers are kind of personified. 

Kristina

Hi Chris,

this is all very interesting with the depth that plays in front of my eyes. It's almost losing the form.

Kristina

I like it. It looks this shadow is of another person, but where could he be in reference to the girl?

Kristina

Can't boys and girls be happy together? The more I look at this picture, the more I think about the relationships and how strong patriarchal societies are.
Aesthetically, I like everything in this picture. Everybody talks about the tree as a bad leading line into a story of 'happiness'. I like the tree which looks magical just as the background of the jungle or the forest. This tree says something good and how enchanting this forest is.

As you already pointed out that children are natural works of art! I agree with that. I photographed my nephew and you can find him in my folder 'Glimpses'.

Emotionally, it was a novel experience for me at the time. 

Ranga,

it still looks amazing! 

Hi Ranga,

I like it better in the portrait mode. I also appreciate the way you executed it - without light and shadows, but rather in a uniform way. What seems to be the sky, it appears to be a pleasant blue background on which a clearly define form of a parrot is displayed. 

It's eye catching! I like it.

For me this is a landscape picture! i like it a lot!

I wonder what would that be until I opened your picture. Very nice! Looks curious.

It is ART, Lannie! You saw a great vantage point dividing the building on half. It's very much illustrative and graphic, and in that style works very well! 

Arthur, to me as well this portrait suggest animal like fragility, and lower instincts, and danger as well. She looks more of having dangerous nature. She can either jump out at you or run away from you in fear. This is how it looks to me.

I believe that most of us appreciate classy photographs where softness of forms and shadows vary under a certain degree that's consequently been standardised by the highest authorities in art photography - MOMA. We are all adults here with some degree of wisdom and life experience. Personally, I love classy photographs because they nourish my soul - being inspired, feeling goose bumps and chills down my spine. Yes, I have to get my kicks! I believe it is in our nature to aspire to higher values in life, to nourish intellect, mind, noble feelings above a mere biological or material life.
Now, somebody mentioned above Avatar, for which I'd say that is a real entertainment watching it in 3D. I'd be very proud of myself if I worked on creating that movie too. This new visual technology is naturally belonging to teenagers, those who were born in the '90s. As well as digitally altered photographs like this one is perfect as a tool to engage young generations into photography. What's the better way than this - a stunning, artificially looking reality, almost like their video games, Wii, and what-not. Anyway, I was doing digitally altered photographs when I started photography 8 years ago. That was a phase where I experimented with my creativity in Photoshop. I'd completely change visual appearance of the reality. Today, looking back at my works, I see could have done it differently.

Arthur, from what I saw on your recommended exhibition "In Wonderland- the surrealistic adventures of Mexican and American women artists", it's definitely a mind-opening one for me. I am not much familiar in-depth with female artists representing women. I started to be when I read a book about Francesca Woodman, which was this year. Thanks for it!
Fred, I am speechless. You analysed it so well. Those are the main differences. I draw a parallel between this portrait and the 19th century Gothic style in the literature, as someone titled this style for some reason, because there were some less popular women writers writing about their inner state. The one that comes into my mind is a novel about a married woman who was chronically ill. She moved with her husband to the country side. Her husband locked her in the room that had window bars and would check on her from time to time. Eventually, she started imagining a female character trapped behind decorative wall-papers, full of foliage. That female character at the end became free by exited from this lavish wall-paper, and the sick woman was saying, "I'm free." In that moment her husband unlock the room and he died when seeing his wife crawling on the floor among the thorn wall-paper. Now, according to various interpretation from both female and male views on a woman's health, is that women were found weak and irrational, inclined to depression - a male view. Women's view created the feminist movement some time in the 20th century, and under that there is a lot that justify a woman's behaviour.
So looking at her foliage and the model merged in it, is for me an association to that less popular novel in the general world literature, but absolutely popular among all women for women writers.

Hi all,
to me it seems this portrait has been made with purpose to sell a product - musical CD of some alternative, gothic band. That I give as a compliment! For that part the model seems to evoke mystic / irrational side of a feminine nature. It is executed well! I really like it. As well, the golden-yellow hues work wonderful with the woman's pose, and all this completely emphasise rustic, pictorial, and especially the gothic 19th century style of feminine literacy as an inspiration to tell the story. I especially like her folder of a family.
I recommend to browse Francesca Woodman.

Very powerful portrait!

It's very inviting atmosphere. Did you precess it all through and through or is it more natural? I like it a lot.

Above all I love father-son inter-dynamics here. It's the kind of motif I'd take.

I love it! The Milky Way, the rocks, the swirl have equal aesthetic value and a balance. In a style, this one is somehow different from your other photographs. 

Donna,
I like what you're saying that Marc's fantasy picture is a cutting edge, but I find it's difficult to adjust my eyes to it. I like your example of a realistic rendition of nature! The picture is utterly simple in motifs and composition, but I find myself very attracted by it.

Donna,
I like what you're saying that Marc's fantasy picture is a cutting edge, but I find it's difficult to adjust my eyes to it. I like your example of a realistic rendition of nature! The picture is utterly simple in motifs and composition, but I find myself very attracted by it.

The picture is composed of many small things - details which naturally had to be taken with a closed aperture. The vantage point is great. No doubt about it. What I see as a weakness is that the picture was overly processed, and the overall texture looks very plastic. I'd like to be transported into this place, but I feel repelled due to plasticity of the texture.