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B:)liana
{K:30945} 8/15/2003
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Wow. great PhotoArt. bravo. Original.
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Karen Siebert
{K:12076} 8/15/2003
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You rule Jim. Your PS work just gets better and better. Absolutely amazing job and you know I love the blue tone. Really GREAT!!!!!
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 8/15/2003
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Isolation in the world of business - like an insect being recorded by the predator...
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 8/15/2003
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I'm late, I'm late for a very important date...
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CJ Kitts
{K:1614} 8/15/2003
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A great photo. You have captured something unexpected and vibrant. Nice.
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Robson Zumkeller Campos
{K:4071} 8/15/2003
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Fantastic image!!
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Ulf Fågelhammar
{K:10975} 8/15/2003
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I love this Jim!
Wonderful work
Photoart at its best in my opinion
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Richard Blount
{K:9145} 8/15/2003
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Incredible as always, you have this style down to a tee. I love the detail and can really appreciate the work gone into this - Richard.
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Jani Salvataggio
{K:26853} 8/15/2003
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excellent!
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Mr. Arrey
{K:11516} 8/15/2003
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very artistic and well done!
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Fatma B.
{K:1864} 8/15/2003
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I like your style Jim, very creative.
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André Bermak
{K:14443} 8/15/2003
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Ótimo trabalho e composição.
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edmond lisy
{K:10311} 8/15/2003
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Haha, very interesting image, creative work !!
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lowell whipple girbes
{K:13181} 8/15/2003
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me like it !!!
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 8/15/2003
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Jim; cool title. In my college days was there many a time myself;>) This really is surrealistic, and for some unexplained reason is successful. Kind of an Alice in Wonderland character where nothing necessarily makes sense, and you just have to take it on it's own terms. I like it! The PS work is great!
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T L
{K:18928} 8/15/2003
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Surreal enough, that's for sure.. I like this - it's as simply as that. And i end up wondering what happen's next.... ???
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 8/15/2003
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It's all been said already, Jim. Magnificent piece of work! Brilliantly creative and technically superb! If you ever run a PS workshop, I'd like to be in on it!!
Kind regards, Chris.
P.S. Thanks for your recent thoughtful appraisal - much appreciated.
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Kristina Kohut
{K:49990} 8/15/2003
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Haha... I love it! It's very deep and kind of frightening, but at the same time it's funny and humorous too! Really a fantastic work!
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Dave M
{K:9043} 8/15/2003
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Jim, the perfection you achieve with these composites never ceases to amaze me. I remember you saying that you prefer blue tones. I agree that the blue toning works here, but it seems just a bit muddy. I might suggest some burning & dodging to bring out some more highlights in the composition. Wonderful work.
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Igor L.
{K:7432} 8/15/2003
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anna
{K:2994} 8/15/2003
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Wonderful as ever, Jim.
Sorry must run away... my PC doesn?t allow me to stay online longer than 1 min!
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Stefan Engström
{K:24473} 8/15/2003
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Surrealist all the way up to the bowler hat! I was looking for a good way to do that kind of scratches today - at the moment I'm thinking that I probably need to do it for real and the photograph, what do you have here if you care to tell? Love the bird's neck.
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Ana Vianna
{K:15270} 8/15/2003
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Excellent work! Very interesting!
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peta jones
{K:12615} 8/15/2003
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Magritte has some very cool quotes!
Very creative Jim, an excellent image.
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Karen Siebert
{K:12076} 8/15/2003
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Congratulations on hot topic of today and your current standing. That said - I will leave it to Igor. He said a mouthful there and I agree.
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 8/15/2003
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Hi Stefan:
The "scratches" were done with a KPT filter called FlameFrax II which is part of the Corel KPT Effects set (sometimes called KPT 7).
The only drawback to FlameFrax II is the rendering time. I created a couple of swirling fractal patterns that I liked (there are also horseshoe, radial and other pattern types) and then rendered them to a 15 mb file at high quality -- and even with a 1ghz Mac, it took a couple of hours per render. So far, the only use I've had for them has been distressing images like this -- for which I could probably have used a low quality setting that would have rendered in a couple of minutes.
I've been thinking about sandpapering some black Kodachrome trannies with an ultra frine grit paper and scanning the result, but have yet to actully try it. Let me know if you work out an effective technique.
Hi Dave:
One again, you're right and I'm kicking myself for rushing this job at the end.
I spent nearly an hour getting some very convincing shadows on Camera Bird and Running Man and they are barely visible. The muddiness happened in the final step when I added a "distressed" layer and then desaturated and colorized the overall image.
I should have created a reveal all layer mask to allow more detail from the underlying image to emerge, but was pressed for time. Actaully, the detail is still fairly apparent in the high res file and on my proof print. But the jpg could be a whole lot clearer.
I especially appreciate your observation because I've shot imagery for two or three more composites in this series and will try to take care to make the jpg versions more "legible."
Hi Karen:
Thanks for the heads up.It took quite a while, but I finally found the page with "Today's Top Photo" and yes, there was "Morning After." Guess I'm still a UF newbie. I appreciate the tip.
My thanks to everyone else who took the time and trouble to comment on and rate this image. Your kindness is much appreciated.
--Jim
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Leslie Cohelan
{K:20887} 8/15/2003
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Well you have my congratulations as well....this really does have, as someone pointed out an "Alice in Wonderland" effect...the toning is excellent and the composition and story, which I'm still trying to figure, all works...but i like the camera head...that's the best part...again congratulations
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deniz kaan copur
{K:12726} 8/16/2003
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ah the hat. --: ) probably you'll say thats not a hat. cool work.
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 8/16/2003
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It's a hat. Bowler hat.
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Gaetan Chevalier
{K:4188} 8/16/2003
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Yes Jim I have returned from holiday trip in 'le bas Saint-Laurent' in Québec. Thank you very much for your very helpful comments. I will post a new shot of Moulin de Beaumont.
For this excellent photo, I like the artistic approach of this shot. Also very creative and original. I see this photo like a painting, the more you look at it, the more you discover its Appeal.
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^j^ .
{K:8554} 8/16/2003
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From dusk and until dawn...
And the morning after the night before...
Hey !! Waitaminit........ Where am I... Not ???
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Olivera Petronijevic
{K:278} 8/16/2003
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J like scene. and my english is bad, for more coment...
but, very good work. J am vaiting for more.
O.
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17684} 8/16/2003
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This is an amazing amount of work and so perfect. I'm impressed. I thought of Magritte before I saw your comment. I guess it's the bowler. Thanks for your comments on my window picture, yes I used some dry brush plus two or three other layers.
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Carol Watson
{K:5185} 8/16/2003
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Very surreal!! And fun!! I think it's time for you to grow a thin handlebar moustache and goatee!! I recognize that arch style from Mexico. Hope to see some of those soon! :-) Better late than never: congrats on POD!!
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Patricia Eifel
{K:5097} 8/16/2003
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Your creations are always very imaginative, but you have outdone yourself in the last couple. Unabashedly surrealistic, very well composed --- with a lot of humor. The swirling background texture is very effective-like a whirlwind around the principle figures. I love it!!!
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G C
{K:12204} 8/16/2003
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Absolute magic here - and without a word of a lie I think I've been in this photo in a dream. Recognize the suitcase. Really...
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Andre Fersen
{K:1679} 8/16/2003
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M. Magritte's words apply not only to surrealism, but to all photogrpahy.
I wouldn't like to try to analyse this image - it just sinks into the mind like a depth charge...
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Anna Pagnacco
{K:7448} 8/16/2003
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UNIQUE!! The best of your creations, Jim!Anna
PS: mine is a series and I have been shooting a whole afternoon, the toe-shoes kept warm my model :-)))
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- simos -
{K:10714} 8/16/2003
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Superb!
regards, simo
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Richard Blount
{K:9145} 8/17/2003
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Congrats Jim on Photo of the day and 99th Percentile, well deserved - Richard.
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ana ribeiro
{K:21290} 8/17/2003
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this is not a man and a bird.
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Bob Whorton
{K:2740} 8/17/2003
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Nice work Jim and congrats on POD
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Anna
{K:2994} 8/17/2003
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Congratulations to MORE THAN WELL DESERVED photo of the day Jim!!!
A bien tôt
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ADAM ORZECHOWSKI
{K:7957} 8/17/2003
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Wonderful composition,and fantastic idea.Congrats.
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peta jones
{K:12615} 8/17/2003
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Congrats Jim !
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Rena Tsiflidou
{K:2606} 8/17/2003
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Very imaginative....!!!Great work!
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Tommaso Di Falco
{K:23744} 8/17/2003
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A composite very nice... very creative too... congrats!
enjoy, Tommaso
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Anna Pagnacco
{K:7448} 8/17/2003
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Congratulations,Jim !Well deserved recognition....Anna
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Marcin Gorski
{K:12388} 8/17/2003
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fantastic!
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Mário Sousa
{K:16985} 8/17/2003
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fantastic photo
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Mário Sousa
{K:16985} 8/17/2003
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Congratulations,Jim
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 8/17/2003
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Hi Jim; congratulations on your "photo of the Day"-- and it's very high ranking-- well deserved. It took a LOT of creative work to create such a surrealistic image.
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Wendy Blount
{K:93} 8/17/2003
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WOW, WOW, WOW !!!!! This one made me sit and stare at my monitor for a longggggg time--Great work, Jim--Cheers, Wendy
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Lou Verruto
{K:1375} 8/17/2003
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POD! Very cool..conrats Jim. Well deserved. Killer shot!
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Hakan Aker
{K:14146} 8/17/2003
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Hi Jim,
This is my kinda shot...And congratulations on your POTD.
Regards,Hakan.
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Ronny Van Eeckhoutte
{K:12734} 8/19/2003
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Great top work....
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Mari Mar
{K:11417} 8/19/2003
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Wonderful creatividad. Única y muy interesante! congratulaciones, Jim!!
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Mark Drago
{K:10902} 8/20/2003
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hey what is this? oh hi Jim. very good, as always.
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Gregory Fiedler
{K:15439} 8/27/2003
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AHHHHH!!!! Calamine lotion is not going to help this! Now my photo of rust gives me the hebee jebees too. Jim, Your mind has gone into some fantastic overtime. Really great stuff!
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Dana Shek
{K:1520} 9/7/2003
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This is really comical, great work!
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