THE HANDS OF ALCHEMIST

Wonderful composition. I love your natural light. Bravo!

Each piece of yours…...........a masterpiece. What glorious work you do!

love this !! the textures, tones, comp … the title and what you’re saying … this is fantastic!!

Wonderful work… :o)

Truly amazing capture and composition!

The composition and tones in this are amazing.

Wonderful!

Its very beautiful Rakesh!

Absolutely amazings. Wonderful and beautiful. A definite fav.

Thank you all friends!

Excellent capture, your work is very inspiring.

Really FANTASTIC !!!

Unique and beautiful – love your style!

Amazing tonality!

Striking tones, lighting and exceptionally wonderful clarity!! Wow!!

Absolutely amazings Rakesh Sir!

Powerful photo!

Brilliant work:)

AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG….............wow…the tones, the crop…and i cant believe im going to say this…..but even the FEEL of this is amazing! THERE is actually emotion here…and YES i know…they are hands and not a face…but I still can FEEL something :)) great work!

Makes me pause to think… great shot!
Congrats on the well deserved feature!

Thank you friends!

the golden color accentuates, grt composition!

Beautiful composition and great tones. Stunning work!

What a wonderful capture!

Brilliant work, Rakesh!

Amazing shot…. looks like bronze! Beautiful!!

amazing…simply wonderful.
great work :)

Beautiful, moving, and perfectly executed

A big thanks to all of you!

A masterpiece…Great image..

incredible image – speaks volumes!

Stunning study, just beautiful.

Brilliant shot – and equally beautiful processing.

Congratulations on winning the avatar – this is an awesome picture – an instant fav for me :-)

Congratulations on your deserved accolades and remarkable work!

Brilliant.

This is wonderful with the contrasting textures and lighting. Simply outstanding!

Excellent capture full of texture and warm tones. An instant favourite!

brilliant work..outstanding texture

Congratulations on your win and very well deserved too it is a wonderful photograph.

Excellent

Wow! Congratulations you deserve the avatar! Well done!

Thanks Taschja but where can I see the winning result?

Thank you all friends!

Congratulations, Rakesh on your stunning image and avatar win!

Amazing tones and clarity,, and light,,, another great piece,, you have an outstanding portfolio.

Fantastic

Excellent capture and composition Rakesh Syal !!!

My congratulation on the avatar challenge, this is well deserved. A wonderful capture of these hands…....an a real storyteller!

Magnificent and glorious the lines in the hands captured perfectly with beautiful contrast of the cloth that is held in the hands. The sepia treatment adds the final perfect touch to this capture, absolutely brilliant!!

First class shot! Perfect composition and subject matter!

magic shot!

Thank you all for your kind words of appriciation!

Outstanding image straight to my favs :-))

Fantastic!!

Amazing image

This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. The burlap next to these hands that have obviously know work. Wow. What a play on texture!!!! Gorgeous!

you have an incredible talent for capturing amazing images – everyone of them show the hands of a person who is in control of the photographic medium, light, exposure, composition… everything is perfectly in place. This is where photography transcends simple recording of an event and becomes art in the purest sense.

Superb image!!

WOW… another instant fave… I love everything about this shot!

How did you get that golden color?

Yep… i love it! You have a very accommodating model!

This is fantastic! I love everything about it.

Outstanding shot,Rakeshji!!!! Huge congrats for another well deserved feature!!!!!!!

Very touching, instant fav!!!

You do good work my brother.

And hand-held at 1/6 second. My kind of guy!

Such lovely tones, and fine details, amazing photography.
The hands tell us so much about a persons character I feel….......

Love the subject matter

Brilliant and beautiful Rakesh.

Congratulations of the Feature in Dimensions. It is a master piece!

This is fantastic, beautiful work

Fantastic color and texture. Beautiful piece.

Amazing and wonderful photographic art. Don.

Oh wow! A beautiful piece and fantastic photography!

BEAUTIFUL

This is beautiful! Well done.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

A stunningly beautiful simplistic image Rakesh. Pure quality.

beautiful!

Excellent work! you must have a magic hands and an eye;) Awesome light!

Great work Rakesh, well done and congratulations on your feature.
David

I knew this was yours as soon as I saw it! Just lovely. Thank you for sharing your art with us.

FEATURED in Colour & Light Group 20th Nov., 2009

Stunning picture

Excellent shot!!!

Congratulations!

Terrific work!!!

I am so glad that Linda Featured your work. It is truly amazing photography!

Congratulations!!! You are a TOP TEN WINNER in the Monochrome in Cee’s Fun Artsy Friends Group.

Cee and Chris

Congrats on your feature! You are now invited to enter
this piece into Best of BROWN

Outstanding image. Beautifully done. Love the golden color.

Hands Challenge Winner

Truly gorgeous!

Congratulations on your win in Color Me a Rainbow – Brown this is just the most amazing and beautiful capture and very, very deserving of the win. In fact I would have been most upset if this was not the winning photograph in this challenge.
You had my vote !

Congrats on your win in Color Me a Rainbow!