GBarrington

You are rapidly becoming one of my favorite Photographers. The drama and the feeling that something is about to happen is almost palpable in your work.  I don't know if it is your model, but I have the feeling of an East European setting.

An excellent example of why B&W and monochrome images will never disappear completely!   This photo as a monochrome image evokes a mood and a sense of place that it never could as a color photo.  Job well done!

Svetlana, Believe it or not, this is just one guy's house!  I'm thinking selling it, but not sure, it's just a cottage, and kind of old, who would want ti?

Thanks for your comments.  It's odd, you think the right side is more interesting than the left, while I absolutely love the left over the right!  It's amazing how people's perceptions can vary.

I agree how the center statuary is keystoned a bit, but that's the price we pay for using a superwide lens on a vertical object.  (9mm in 4/3s is roughly equal to 18mm fl in 35mm film photography).  I might straighten it out yet, but I'm otherwise pretty happy with it as is.

On a side note, I'm very happy with how my conversions to B&W went.  I used Lightroom for the conversion and find it very easy to find the exact shades and tones I'm looking for.  Much easier than PS proper or PS Elements or PSP, I think.

I love the concept of motocycles as personal (movable/ridable) works of art.  As a rider myself, I understand the intense emotional investment that a good bike (any bike, actually!) can represent. 

I congratulate you, not so much for the photograph itself, but for seeing the man and not the 'spectacle'.

I am reminded of the Robin Williams film from an Issac Azimov short story about a robot who longs to be human.

It presents the same sort of puzzeled measurement that the character of that story struggles with.  Good job.

An every day item presented as sculpture.

It is refreshing to see religion portrayed as something other than an aberation!  I particularly like how the young man is surrounded by the highlights created by the light streaming in the window.   The highlights take on a 'solidity' not usually attributed to them.  I really like how light and dark have become 'things'.

Excellent color and composition.  It does have an almost painted, yet cinematic, feel to it.  As if a really skilled animator was using all his or her power to make as realistic an image as possible.  In this case, that is a good thing (not always, but this time, yes).

The viewer gets the sense that something dramatic is going to happen. and it drives us, well me at least, crazy that I will never know what that is!

I've got to be honest, I hate, HATE the wings.  It's an otherwise very good photo, but the wings bring it down to a cliche. . .

I like this! I see it as a sort of a spoof of fashion photos.  The black on white imagry, the self conscious pose, and then the veiny ligature of the legs says, "hey, this is no fantasy!"

Heck John, If I knew what I was after, I'd put it down in a book with words.  Alton is a very photogenic place. Even the ugly parts.  It has a strange, Victorian grittyness coupled with an odd, down on its luck 21st century urbaness with a hint of whimsy tossed in. 

It's one of those photos that all you can say is "good capture".  I find it amazing how life can arrange itself in such a remarkably graphic manner!

And I love the color!  However, I wonder if it could be sharpened a bit  It's a bit too 'fuzzy' for my tastes.  Otherwise, I think it's great!

the photo itself is quite good.  It's has an excellent absurdity and other worldliness to it.  But that frame!  Really! it's better suited to granny's photos of the kids.  A good photo doesn't need a frame on the internet!

I'm not sure if you will appreciate the comparison!  But this photo reminds me of those science fiction movies from the 1950's where a giant 50 foot tall woman attacks a city and generally makes some man's life a misery while maintaining a perfect hair-do!

There is a campy  feel to this photo that I can't decide if I like or not.  I don't think you should abandon this line of exploration yet, as I said, I'm kind of ambivalent about it.  You might be on to something, then again you might not.  You need to show us more!

I particularly like the 'almost' monochrome coloring.  I also like how the angular lines of the plant is broken up by the spirals in the stems.

However, I don't like how that one leaf seems to be growing up the subject's nose!  I feel that is a major discraction from an otherwise beautiful portrait.

It is very elegant, and seems as if it could have been taken in the 1930's.   There is an 'out of time' quality that I find most appealing.