"The Hold".

Wow – thanks for your lovely comment Bob! to be honest, I wasn’t expecting much of a response to this one – but then – I’m very often wrong on that count lol :)))

Thank you so much Tara! I wasn’t too sure how this one was ‘working’, as I was trying a whole lot of new textures I’d shot only in the past few days for the first time, so I wasn’t too sure quite how they would best be used – though – I fiddled till it seemed ok… :)))

Wow! Thank you Tania! It’s great to get a response like this as I wasn’t sure how these new textures would best ‘work’... :)))

Thank you so much! I’m really honoured by this response :)))
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Thank you so so much Helene – I really value your response here!
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Thank you very much my friend :)))
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Ta. I’m glad it seems to ‘work’ – some new textures and new post process that I fiddled with – so I wasn’t really sure what I was going to come up with… :)))
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Phew… thanks Matt! Yes, the colour is mainly straight from the texture images. I tried desaturating this, but it seemed to me to be ‘stronger’ with the colour for a change… that surprised me, as I usually feel that closer to monotone is stronger in general… so I wasn’t sure either… :)))
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Thank you so much Anita! – Yes, I think all those words would fit with the kind of effect I was after… :)))
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Thanks friend! This is a very different edit – a whole lot of new texture images I have that I don’t know yet how they’ll work best… so fun mucking around trying to see what happens :)))

Thanks Bev – It’s one from a whole lot of images that were actually quite difficult to shoot… :)))
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Thanks Erika – I guess I was really hoping it would be :)))
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Apologies for not replying sooner Aglaia – thank you for such great encouragement :)))
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Thanks Mary – I suppose I’m not surprised this one can be a ‘bit’ scary… and I was trying out some new texture images I took here for the first time :)))
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Thanks friend! Like you have totally blown me away with yours!
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Thank you so much J – it took me a while to work out how best to ‘present’ this one too…
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O wow! Thank you so much for the wonderful compliment and honour! Love this group :)))
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Thanks again for such a wonderful comment. The theme behind the atmosphere of this image is – as I described in my reply to you on ‘The Portrait of Child Abuse’ – the same thing again. You put into words that you sense from this image pretty much exactly the kinds of aspects of that experience that I was hoping to express. Thank you
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Thanks – what can I say to a comment like that? Just – thanks so much for all your support!
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Thank you so much! I’m very happy to hear you appreciate what I do!
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