chrisvest

January 9, 2008

thanks cynthia! i appreciate all your encouragement.

January 9, 2008

sweet image; i love the colors and the composition is perfect. bravo.

January 9, 2008

wow, what a great painting this would make.... i'd paint the tails in too, tho. i think these are called hyacinth macaws, aye? great shot. cheers.

January 9, 2008

oooo! outstanding. i'd love to have this one in my backroads series. great pic, at once brooding and warmly vivid. congrats.

January 9, 2008

inspired by wildlife painters bob kuhn and michael coleman, i offer this personal view of

both the texture of the landscape and the animal.

January 7, 2008

really sweet shot; love your caption. you've heard the expression "like herding cats"? it's tough getting them together for a shot. you've done very well here.

i do animal rescue so i also have to beg everyone: please spay and neuter your pets! i make potential adoptees sign a contract promising to get the animals fixed. attached is a poster i did for kittens abandonned near me. cheers!

January 7, 2008

gorgeous capture and treatment: the easel, beret and touch of red on the lips are great touches. reminiscent of some of works from alfred stieglitz's group, the secessionists. i only wish the right hand had some additonal form.

January 7, 2008

hard to resist a picturesque row of trees-- of course the dramatic snow adds a lot too. nice shot. (i wonder why the leaves are still on the trees?)

January 7, 2008

i love seeing isolated old abandoned houses like this-- my pulse quickens as i envision it

filled with cast-away antiques. like always tho, i only came away with photos.

January 6, 2008

very lush image, the eye finds interesting aspects throughout the well-composed flow of lines. excellent capture, bravo!

January 6, 2008

good clarity, color and balance. also good interest: kind of a reptilian look to that 'eye' and series of 'scales'. well taken.

January 6, 2008

you got the boys attention with this one. superb lighting and model-- i could use more friends like this.

January 5, 2008

superb heron portrait! flawless.

December 25, 2007

looks like a photographers paradice, lucky you. great, fascinating shot.

December 25, 2007

i like this one too, kinda depends on one's taste for that color, an icy cyan-cobalt; a favorite hue of mine. sweet.

December 25, 2007

gorgeous abstract, i love the blues and textured gravel-- even the camera tilt works nicely. bravo.

December 25, 2007

another brilliant creation-- somehow very painterly. exciting work. bravo.

December 25, 2007

this is a gorgeous, very creative piece. outstanding. bravo. (i hope the manx was found...)

December 25, 2007

a different kind of look, very creative. the spiral of whiskers, the soft motion, the warm tones: all very appealing. bravo.

December 23, 2007

wow, what a sweet old ride. i dig the color version. super patina.

December 23, 2007

very nice colors and textures, good balance. bravo.

December 23, 2007

highly evocative, one can almost hear and smell the street. choice use of limited palette. good shot, very clean...

December 23, 2007

really nice one. hard not to anthropomorphize the image with those fangs hanging out. i'm bummed that i was actively commenting on another car photo of yours a few days ago and it got deleted just as i was posting the most insightful critique. ah well. the whole series is really good. cheers.

December 22, 2007

great tones and textures; love the sepia, love the darkened corners. the horizontal lines off the upper corner lock in the subject, as does the bright verticals on the other side. the blurred playing hand is the fascinating counterpoint to the studied expression of the model. all great. some more view of the lower right might be interesting, but that's just nit-picking. groovy shot, as are all of the images i saw in your collection of 'recent' pics. bravo.