Okay wayne, I hear you... this one's in color and with no clothes!

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Here's one just so wayne won't feel neglected.

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-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), November 21, 2000

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Rats!



-- tom meyer (twm@mindspppring.com), November 21, 2000.


A nice idea to look at the similarities between the body and moonrise. However the dividing line between shadow and light on the left side needs to be more gradual.

-- fw (finneganswake@altavista.net), November 23, 2000.

as eeyore often is heard to say, "thanks for thinkin' of me", tom. but to be brutally frank, i was hoping for something a little less, um...subtle. :)

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), November 22, 2000.

how did that happen? dating sequence in responses is backwards. (?)

fw, this is window light, the blue is the skylight, and the warmer light is direct sun. That's a good metaphor you raise, one that had not occurred to me. thanks... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), November 23, 2000.


It looks more like a burst balloon than a useful pot.

I like the idea, and the use of colour, but the gesture is cramped - like walzing in a telephone box. It would be easy to add extra space, either in the darkroom or, *ahem*, digitally, which would enhance the aetherial feel.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), November 24, 2000.



looks more like a burst balloon than a useful pot...

well you really lost me with that one... it doesn't look like either to me.

As for cramped composition, it's cropped in camera, and in "print" because I didn't want to show the window sill just above her back, or the bed she was resting on. I didn't want a head to de- abstract (is that a word?) the form, or any oher more recognizable attributes to detract from this form, shape, texture, palatte. I made this image for people to find a moon or sun, or a pot and balloon hiding in their imagination, and to expand that imagination. It's interesting, the associations people can realize, given a common point of origin... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), November 24, 2000.


Here's a wider view, made before we rearranged and made the image at the top of this thread:

which is interesting to me, only as a "thumbnail" prelude to the final effort... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), November 24, 2000.


I like them both, but for the tighter one, most of its power would come from the quality of the printing (i.e., you'd want to see an "original"). The bottom one is a much more interesting image (as reproduced here).

-- John Kantor (jkantor@mindspring.com), November 25, 2000.

take a look at the second image when cropped "panoramic" style at the base of the window. that makes a terrific shot, imho.

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), November 25, 2000.

>> well you really lost me with that one... <<

Eeyore's birthday presents.

It was the texture that drew me into your first pic. To me it looks more like a Joshua Tree boulder than the Moon, but I can see the Earth Also Rises connection. Either way, there's a nice sense of a timeless view of a mortal object.

Bravo for shooting tight, but I still think more space would help. A square frame would emphasise the celestial aspect, but were it my picture I'd simply make it a bit wider for a bridging, arcing feel.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), November 28, 2000.



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