Greg, your impressions I will save, as flattery is the highest praise. Richard Cooper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Fraser" <Gregory.Fraser@pwgsc.gc.ca> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:47 AM Subject: Gallery Impressions 28 Oct 02 > Here ye shall find my impressions, > for this week's rotating gallery session. > > http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html > > Christiane Roh (Lausanne, Pl. de la Riponne, aot 2002) - > > Three children sit, easily amused. > Females unshorn; the male in shoes. > At such a young age, > are they aware > that gender dictates > the direction they stare? > ........ > > Richard Cooper (Take Cover) - > > The wee red light > stares at me. > Blinking, blinking, endlessly. > Skies grow angry o'er the sea. > I've no more Prozac. > Pity me. > ........ > > King/Arthur (WOLs 4: The family) - > > Full of holes and incomplete. > Text and image should be discreet. > Joined together like ads on TV, > this kind of thing doesn't interest me. > ........ > > Guy Glorieux (Montreal - Lachine Canal) - > > Light is black and dark is white. > Is it day, > or is it night? > I can't get balanced but its not the light. > Seems everything leans to the left > AND the right! > ......... > > Christopher Strevens, LRPS (Mother and Child) - > > So much color but its not too late > to find out how to desaturate! > Tension abounds from diagonal lines, > that slice and hack into my mind. > For blur, I prefer, a warm, gauss Ian glow. > Sometimes a blurred picture has just got to go. > ........ > > jIMMY Harris (bMimosa Tree) - > > In lovely light grows the bMamosa tree. > Whose bean pods appear to outgrow its leaves. > A mottled mixture of brown, blue, and green, > with the smaller pods looking quite phallic to me. > In order to pronounce it properly, > one must remember to silence the 'b'. > ........ > > Peeter Vissak (Behind the corner of the Columns) - > > Beyond the black shadows, > just over the wall, > are promise and light. > But not for all. > > On this side we live > in contrast obscene. > Perspective disjointed > in a flat puzzle scene. > > Our one source of light, > hangs o'er Avvenire > but stays not the night, > long ago ceased to fire. > ........ > > Bob Talbot (Lion number two) - > > A lady? > Perhaps to her friends in the pride. > But to me, she should take > such actions inside. > > Although its all natural, > and done by us all, > I prefer bowel movements, > to be done in a stall. > ........ > > Dan Mitchell (F7) - > > Blue is as blue, > as blue can be, > and the color of choice > for the deep, blue sea. > > But sliced up by white, > most expertly, > with a touch of brown diagonally, > is an effective way, > of pleasing me. > ......... > > Emily L. Ferguson (Tihonet Pond moment) - > > Auburn leaves and an azure sky, > reflect in the pond as my boat drifts by. > Abstract shapes and nothing more, > but a very strong feeling I've seen this before. > ....... > > Andrew Davidhazy - > > A very large scanner or a very small girl, > solarized and pressed like a road-kill squirrel. > The shape of the torso, the hand under breasts, > the frame of the print upon which she rests, > flesh in smooth outline contrasts rough frame, > a figure, not a person with a soul, a name. > > A dance cut short or perhaps a fall, > immortalized on paper for viewing by all. > I like this image for all of these reasons > but I fear, > my poor dear, > your head's losing adhesion. > > Thanks to all this week's photographers. > Greg Fraser > http://users.imag.net/~lon2251/Gallery > >
