<<< What follows are my takes on this weeks images. The disclaimer, as always, is that my opinions are highly subjective and based on my personal bias. I am always more influenced by how the pictures made me feel than any technical aspects. >>> I 's curious anyone feels the need to make this clear. Everything anyone says or writes is always opinion: the idea of any pure "absolute" truth appears absurd - something left to politicians. Bob Talbot: "Eternity" http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/ allery/talbot.html >>Very nice collage. Immediate thought was to treat the word "collage" as an insult: the photo was not a collage but a scan of a single frame of film out of my camera. Second thought: well, when I say single frame I mean double exposure, captured in camera by tradtional means. Is it just semantics? Obviously if I did this image today it would be easier to take two shots and combine them in PhotoShop - something much simpler but much less fun - IMO. Third: I guess I've never heard the word collage used to describe pictures in which someone has incorporated an oversized moon by double exposure ... << Photos as metaphors, however, generally leave me with my head spinning >>> Mmmm ... the photo was never taken as a metaphor for anything. Perhaps my mistake was to give it a title - I hate titles for photos - I did struggleto find a title simply because to me none of my images actually have them. Giving it the handle "eternity" clearly gives the wrong message, that the picture is about more than just a picture ... which it was not. To me it was just a technical excersize in combining a 2:1 macro shot with the 1999 eclipse. the challenge was in leaving a graded black hole for the sun, and positioning the sun in the hole. <<< like Linda Blair. >>> never heard of her <<<C J R Strevens: "Junction Near C apham Junction 2" http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/strevens.html I love cartoons but not here. >>> OUCH! That is hardly constructive. <<< Andrew Davidhazy: "Star trail fantasy" http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery davidhazy.html Neat!!! >>> despite being a fake! <<< .......the Zen philosopher Hui-neng wrote *the meaning of life is to see*........>>> Very discriminatory against the blind! So they have a meaningless life? Bob
