Afraid I´ve been very lazy (or busy; take your pick) lately,
contributing neither images nor opinions. And then, along comes this
week´s crop; the best one for quite a long time. I just HAVE to write
someting about it!
2005-05-28 kl. 15.30 skrev ADavidhazy:
The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated MAY 21 2005.
Authors
with work now on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html
include:
Bob Talbot - Walk
Magnificent! Muted, harmonious colours, extremely strong composition.
The apparent simplicity is disturbed by the visual ambiguity of the
concrete structure: is it a horizontal jetty or some kind of pyramid?
No reason we should know; the picture gains a lot from our
uncertainty... Best one this week (and for quite a few weeks...).
Marilyn Dalrymple - Atomic Number 13
OK, that should make it Beer Can Metal (Al), but mainly this is pure
abstraction. Suppose the colour is from the lighting; works well, and
the texture and pattern makes it possible to "see" lots of things that
aren´t really there. And that´s how art should work.
Emily L. Ferguson - Stad Amsterdam goes to the starting
line
Wow! Wish I had been there then... Suppose this is from the Tall
Ships Race; they usually pass at least one Swedish port too, but we
don´t have such a backdrop. (Stockholm does have something equal in the
Southern Cliff, but due to the archipelago, they ships seldom use sails
all the way in).
Kostas Papakotas - Broken Ship
My initial comment about muted, harmonious colours and strong
composition seems to apply to every picture so far, and certainly to
this one. Very good!
Greg Fraser - View From the Top
Here, the harmony of colours is replaced by an intriguing disharmony:
it looks like the reflection of some huge flag, but then again....
Good, strong lines.
Howard Leigh - Zygocactus, Spring 2005
Beautiful flowers, extremely well photographed. I am not a little
disturbed by the totally burnt-out window; would it have been possible
to move the pots temporarily to a dark background?
Margaret Lucas - power to the puddles
Seems to be not only wet, but cold as well: all the water we see is
frozen solid. We´ve been through this here in Sweden as well, and
tried to photograph it. This is a far better attempt than any of mine
this last winter..
Andrew Davidhazy - Torso in blue
Strong 50:ies flavour (Hajek-Halke and that bunch), but very well done.
Did you plan to get the solarization effects, or was this just a happy
accident? With your background and experience, I suppose it was
planned that way. Very interesting image either way.
Per Öfverbeck
http://foto.ofverbeck.se
