While acknowledging that we all see and react to the same visual objects differently, I want to share my warm feelings about your untitled photo of yellow flowers (poppies?). The striking beauty and enviable perfection of your creation immediately captured my attention upon opening up the 1-18-03 Photoforum exhibition. I am not often affected by photos or other so-called works of art I see, but when I am, the reaction is instantaneous and virtually reflexive. When it happens, I have to stop and ask myself what it was about the photo that moved me so strongly. The answers do not come easily. I often give up attempting to isolate and identify the elements responsible for the wonderful esthetic/emotional experience, although the potential answers are intriguing. I am aware that my personal reaction to any given photograph or other work of art may be idiosyncratic and not shared by others. Having said all that, I find the composition of your flowers superbly integrated and balanced, the colors of the flowers sensual, their translucency magically ethereal, and the soft lighting surrounding the flowers engaging. I wish I had created the photograph; it is wonderful and beautiful.
JG
At 10:13 AM 1/18/2003 -0500, ADavidhazy wrote:
The PhotoForum member's gallery/exhibit space was updated 01-18-03. Authors
with work now on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html include:
David Small - The Fountain of Youth
Dan Mitchell - Water's Edge
Emily L. Ferguson - Above Drake's Beach, CA
jIMMY Harris - DUNE
Steven Ross - Reflected Sunset
Gregory david Stempel - Building the Museum
Ernest Nitka - Dusk comes to the vineyard
Christopher Strevens - News Stand
Morley Roberts - Sleighs Go By
Doug Seibert - Manatees
Andrew Davidhazy -
In Gallery-X find a series by Laurenz Bobke on "Religions of the World" and
one by Andrew Davidhazy resulting from tests with a Canon EOS-1Ds.
There are currently no (0) photographs enqueued for future exhibition.
Contribution instructions can be obtained by following a link from the main
gallery page given above. New series of 5-6 images per author as well as new
work (up to about 12 photographs) by groups of students encouraged!
A new group exhibit based on the general theme of STREET PHOTOGRAPHY is
planned for the future. To participate send your images following the
guidelines for the weekly exhibit (keep them less than about 500 pixels in
longest dimension and/or a maximum filesize of about 50K when JPEG compressed).
Please DO NOT SEND IMAGE FILES TO THE LIST itself. For this project send them
instead to: RITphoto@rit.edu stating the word: STREET in the subject line.
FYI - There were about 400 visits paid to the main gallery last week.
Thank you - Ursula & the PF Exhibits Staff
