The Conductor

Oh my, this is a sensational, emotive piece of art. Words can not express how great this is.

Well done. A beautiful image

I like the use of space here. Sometimes a 1/2 and 1/2 approach works. This is one of those times.

Wonderful Deb!

Magnificent, Deb. What a brilliant capture. I love how you can see his fingers and that little tuft of hair sticking up on his head. Just brilliant. So glad you put it up.

Deborah, this is excellent. You have done great with this.

11out of 10 for me

I still go shopping barefooted. ;) (I’m very free spirited!)
It looks as if Abe here is bringing up the sun!
What a shot! And what a moment. :)

This is fabulous Deb! Typical Deborah Parkin toning and everything, but also so cute, an awesome shot!!

This is very beautiful Deborah! Lovely work!

Excellent Deb, great capture

love to see these….
always very high quality…always.fascinating and inspiring

beautiful shot, very emotive, well done

stunning

Gorgeous work Deb!

This is wonderful Deb.. dont you just wish the spirit of a child could be bottled and passed onto adults.. we just get too caught up in the trivia of life.. I think the only time I sing my heart out now is whilst driving my car! I try not to let the strange looks bother me! Anyway, thisis a wonderful piece.. I love the silhouette and the light behind is just stunning! Love it!

thanks everyone for such wonderful comments – so kind and really appreciate them.
I think you are right Paul – i would love to bottle it up – Abe was singing in the street not so long ago – people smiling at him as they walked past – he then said ‘you sing it mummy’ – i just clammed up, said i couldn’t remember the words – he didn’t let me get away with it ’ i will teach you’ – so i did – i sang out loud walking through Hexham and i was unforgivably self-conscious LOL!!! He didn’t notice a thing.

I think this is your best yet – or my most fav’ fav’.

beautiful, beautiful image deb – just love it!

It’s fantastic,i love the little fingers.

a winner

Beautiful work Deborah. I love how half the image is in silhouette – it makes it dramatic & very emotive.

Lovely shot Debs…..wonderful composition…love the sky…..wonderful silhouette! Nice one!

Deborah, Love it. You take such captivating images. Bravo to both Maestros.

i love it.

The little boy who touch the sky. A wonderful piece.
floede

delightfully brilliant!

Beautiful shot, I love how the light surrounds him and you gave it a great title too.

Beautifully done this is superb!

Powerful piece! I can’t resist silhouettes, and the texture of the sky is just awesome :) Your photos always tell such wonderful stories!

I would love to have a carefree spirit like that… Like you, I was a shy and self-conscious child, and still am shy (although ironically I’m a professor and I talk to people for a living; go figure). You’ve really captured something wonderful and special in this shot, but of course you do that with every shot. :) I am so impressed with your talent (and a little envious, too!).

beautiful, great capture & b&w treatment. wonderful notes. I love the crazy stuff kids do because they feel like it. Adult shoppers don’t even blink when they pass a kid lying on the floor of the produce section, flailing arms and legs, singing “row, row, row a goat, I want some ice cream….” or something like that. An adult tries it and, bang, they tossed me right out – er….

LOVE THE look of it…awsome mood…

this is brilliant keep going the way you are headed, masterpiece

Very atmospheric Deborah!

Just beautiful Deb, again that sky is quite dramatic – but the star of the show Abe he looks to be in his own little world – not a care, Superb!

fantastic

Fantastic

Not so sure about conducting music Deb, but the image makes him look like he’s conducting the weather (Kate Bush’s cloudbusting video ring any bells???) but done in a Minority report style, its almost as though he’s just moving the clouds over there.

Love the dark silhouette, captures the interest superbly

Really love the mood of this piece! So Symphonic!! :D

TERRIFIC Well done :)

AMEN!!!! Here is to our free spirited souls….god love them…He loooks like he is conducting the sky…....angels sing this….wind please blow lightly….sun please shine brightly…clouds please sway back and forth and so on !!!! Until he is giggling with glee!!!!!! This made me smile for a minute so thank you so much!!!! Another masterpiece my dear!!!!HUGS Trishxxooxxoo

This is damned near perfection.

Magical, Deb. Your work is AMAZING!

Such sensitive work Deborah.

Great piece Deborah, made me smile too!! Love the simplicity of the silhouetting too.

Awesome silhouette and framing!

Fantastic image, puts a smile on my face too and reminds me of when my kids where younger and were like this!, love it!! :D

This is one of those pictures you could look at forever … x x x

Beautiful!

Isn’t it fabulous to see them being so free and easy!!

A great capture, Deb.

Great composition!!!

Exquisite! FAV!!!

this is a brilliant one!

I am so glad you posted this, what a fantastic image, the composition is brilliant, love all the details! Wonderful capture!

A Master piece!

Great stuff, I wouldn’t be game to do this when I was a kid either, unless I thought no-one was watching, so seeing it brings memories to me. Regardless of that I think you’ve created another brilliant work of art, for so many reasons.

I wonder how big the audience was in his self-made moment of glory?!! Fantastic! He looks so impressive up there on his stage – wonderful emotive image Deb :))

Simply wonderfull !! I recognised the setting straight away from ‘boy alone’ but this one has a very different feel to it. What a super character young Abe is – beautifully captured Deb !!

A very arresting and powerful image – amazing work!

Aww…this is amazing. I just love this so much. So full of life.

This what photography is all about! Painting beautiful pictures with light. You’ve sure got a heap of talent.

Wonderful!!!

Love the silhouette

This really makes me smile – Love it!

Great silhouette!

reminds me of that boy in the movie “AUGUST RUSH” [which i loved] so i adore this pic very much!

wonderful image

Excellent!

Wonderful silhouette as always Deborah. Your B&W work is exceptional. I love the line Andrew put in his Soap Bubble story. ‘Does Deborah Parkin deliberately paint her family black and white for her photography?’ Great shot :)

this is superb! absolutely magic, well done deb, you are really doing a brilliant job of capturing the way children think and act in their own little world! I love this one!

excellent!! such a good image

Lovely composition.

yes..excellent composition and great mood!

simply awesome moment captured by your amazing photogenic skills.

very lovely composition!

this is such a stunning shot.. amazing work Deborah

Really nice shot well done

Ive always wondered who made the clouds dance and sing in color! Now I know :) wonderful piece

Great composition, beautiful contrast. I love it!

beautiful contrast!!! amazing shot

I love your work! Black and white is my favorite and you do it beautiful!

Perfect capture. Oh, to be as free-spirited and uninhibited as Abe. What a treasure of a moment. I hope he continues to conduct passionately and sing his little heart out.

This is good, very very good! Love the title, compliments image very well! xx