Thank you to billisdead for allowing me to do my first critique on his wonderful photograp…
Thank you to billisdead for allowing me to do my first critique on his wonderful photograph, Saint-Malo / / / This has always been a personal favourite of mine, being that I’m a sucker for shots produced with toy cameras :) / / The thing that strikes me most about this image is how dirty it is. It’s almost like I’m looking through a forgotten window to view the real world. In my opinion, this is the finishing touch on any photograph taken with a toy camera, what tweaks it to that certain degree of uniqueness. Another key to a great photograph is the feelings and emotions that can be pulled out of the audience. / / One glance isn’t enough to see everything that composes this shot, it’s one that you have to enlarge and really look at. There are so many neat little things hidden in the grimy shadows of the concrete and the exposed light of the sun. I really like how the only light is natural and contained mostly on the right hand side, drawing the eye in and down to the reflection on the plastic-looking water with its ever so slight rays off in the distance. The eye’s natural tendency to start at the left and read to the right is thrown off here with the horizon line. Having the sun as the starting point, the “beginning” of the horizon is noticed first on the right, being composed of what appears to be a strip of far-off buildings and trees. It gradually rises as the foreground overtakes the background and the buildings curve around to continue behind the photographer. Using this composition, I can’t help but be curious about what may be lurking in the shadows where the concrete meets the sand. / / This picture really evokes my love and appreciation of the unnoticed things taken for granted. Seeing the initial darkness and feeling the rough concrete of the confining society washes me in a wave of lonliness and hopelessness, so I search for a way to escape, digging through the shadows, smelling the smokey air, tasting the salt, being scratched by the sand until I reach the light. It’s like an escape to a dream world, only you know it’s more than real when you swear you can hear the waves through the sun-streaked vignetting. /
In 2007 my wife and I returned to one of our favorite cities, Paris, for a week. From an inevitable collection of hundreds of photos, I h…
In 2007 my wife and I returned to one of our favorite cities, Paris, for a week. From an inevitable collection of hundreds of photos, I have prepared these few, gathered into a collection of 18 compositions. These will be published on RedBubble one per day over 18 days. Actually I will have to speed this up a little, as we leave for China shortly! / Favourite (and visit) this Journal to get daily updated links. / As each one is published, a link to it will be enabled here. Hot Links to each of the 18 pictures in this Paris Series. / Night Scenes in Paris – Paris Series 01 / Lost and Found in Paris – Paris Series 02 / Montmartre Artists – Paris Series 03 / Mother and Child – Paris Series 04 / Musee Rodin Statue Garden – Paris Series 05 / Hidden Garden of Paris – Paris Series 06 / The Shadows of Paris – Paris Series 07 / Napoleon Bonaparte’s Tomb – Paris Series 08 / The Streets of Montmartre – Paris Series 09 / Trees in Luxembourg Gardens – Paris Series 10 / The Duet – Paris Series 11 / Notre Dam Cathedral Detail – Paris Series 12 / Sacre Coeur Cathedral – Paris Series 13 / The Lion of Luxembourg Gardens – Paris Series 14 / Roofs of Paris – Paris Series 15 / Domes of Paris – Paris Series 16 / Beautiful Place Des Vosges – Paris Series 17 / Getting Around Paris – Paris Series 18 Note – Each of the multiple-images is available in a much larger size, or alternatively each picture (from a group) may be requested as a single photograph, by bubble-mailing the artist. / Cheers, Keith Richardson.
Wow I have made the front page of featured today – I can’t believe it! I only took the photo today – I am currently on holiday touring Fr…
Wow I have made the front page of featured today – I can’t believe it! I only took the photo today – I am currently on holiday touring France and I uploaded it onto Redbubble using the internet connection in the hotel I am staying in! I wasn’t even sure whether to put The Monoliths photo onto Redbubble! Thanks Redbubble!
To everyone that has me on their watchlist – I promise I will never upload so many photos at the same time again! I had to get the Easte…
To everyone that has me on their watchlist – I promise I will never upload so many photos at the same time again! I had to get the Easter Card series uploaded so I could print them for an order I received. I had kept this photos from our trip to France last year on the computer, and hadn’t done anything with them, and someone saw them over the weekend and ordered a few sets of cards for their shop for Easter. Wasn’t going to let an opportunity like that pass me by – so once again, I’m sorry if everyone got sick and tired of looking at photos of statues – and I do promise it won’t happen again!!! Sue
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