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Ricardo Ferreira de Paula
{K:678} 9/25/2003
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Acho que năo entendi, mas até que gostei... :)
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Diomar Pozzo
{K:597} 9/25/2003
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Beautiful. Remember to Dalí.
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Verna Absolutestockphoto
{K:2836} 9/25/2003
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SO COOL :-)
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Elizabeth Miller
{K:2761} 9/25/2003
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Jim: This is wonderful!! I can't keep up with your work.
I think I'll put a smily face on all of them and you'll know I like it.
I had to comment on this one because fascinating to look at.
Elizabeth
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peta jones
{K:12615} 9/25/2003
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You are leaving us to flounder on this one Jim!
Fascinating, rather odd, mystifying and other misc. thoughts are soaring through my brain, randomly.
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 9/25/2003
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...bizarre, surrealistic... bewildered dude... watching clock... seeing time fly in all directions via the rays... earth and sky meeting at infinity... fish symbolic of either Judaeo (sp?)-Christian philosophy-- or evolution as depicted by growth in size of fish over time. Head hurts thinking about this one;>). Nice, blue, pleasant sky shows optimism. Good Luck Jim!
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Alan Orr
{K:9671} 9/25/2003
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Jim, another fun trip. Your images always go so well with the medication Im on. In my opinion, you are one of the best around at what you do. I look forward to each post.
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Stefan Engström
{K:24473} 9/25/2003
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Looks like a Monty Python movie is about to start and the fish will soon be singing. Or maybe it is one of those modern Tarot decks. The horizon seems far enough off that it should have a little curvature :-)
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Carol Watson
{K:5185} 9/25/2003
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Wickedly fun! I second Stefan! This does look like something out of Monty Python. I thought of one particular skit where they are slapping each other across the face with fish. The first time I saw that skit, I laughed so hard I nearly peed.... :-)
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Vlad P.
{K:1477} 9/25/2003
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Nice abstract, Jim. Very creative use of "the sixs".
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ventrix drogo
{K:62722} 9/25/2003
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Fantastica composizione. Ciao
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Jamie Ferguson
{K:6284} 9/26/2003
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Welcome to Usefilm's answer to Monty Python! Thanks for the laugh and insight into your warped mind Jim.
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Amancio Couto
{K:15720} 9/26/2003
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Great idea! Excellent work! Congrats Jim!
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Alex Uchôa
{K:18547} 9/26/2003
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Creative and unique. Bravo.
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^j^ .
{K:8554} 9/26/2003
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Hands up !!!
But not to surrender... That's for sure !
:) (:
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Audrey Reid
{K:5872} 9/26/2003
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This makes my day a happy one!
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Gregory Fiedler
{K:15439} 9/26/2003
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How does one climb a fish tree! Has to be slick! Jim, You just keep pounding out this wonderful work! Great stuff my friend!
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 9/26/2003
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Once again. My deep thanks for the comments, suggestions and explications. You guys are the greatest!
I stitched this together in one very long sitting yesterday. With fresh eyes today, I saw a few fixes I wanted to make. I also weighed the advice of horizon consultant Engström. As usual, once I got started, I couldn't stop. In any event, here's a slightly revised version. Nothing major, just a few aesthetic improvements. Or not.
This scene takes it title and a bit of it's pictorial inspiration from Magritte's "Presence of Mind." The vertically-oriented fish, in particular, come from that painting. When assembling the side with the singer, clock and rising albatross, what I had in mind was something akin to the opening of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass:"
COME, said my Soul,
Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)
That should I after death invisibly return,
Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
There to some group of mates the chants resuming,
(Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultous waves,)
Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owning -as, first, I here and now,
Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name...
The fellow in the photo is an Irish musician who leads "Musical Pub Crawls" through the Temple Bar district of Dublin. If you like Irish music and Guiness, I highly recommend it.
The clock is at once a sign for time and the sun, which taken metaphorically could also be Whitman's "other spheres." The rising bird is the soul (Wish it were something other than an albatross, but this is the best ascendant bird image I've been able to get in 30 years. Partly because with a wingspan of almost six feet, he was relatively easy to shoot with a Nikon CP 5700).
The rays are just that, celestial rays meant to convey waves of light, of song, of hope. On the opposite side are three "fish trees," about which Craig, who is dead on the mark as usual, says, "fish symbolic of either Judaeo (sp?)-Christian philosophy-- or evolution as depicted by growth in size of fish over time."
Actually, my knowlege of religious symbolism is woeful. For decades I thought those little fish bumper stickers stood for some kind of Trout association, kind of like Ducks Unlimited. It wasn't until I took my daughter on a guided tour of Notre Dame, that someone set me straight. It did sink in this morning when I looked at this with fresh eyes, that for many people, this might well be symbolic of the crosses on Calvary.
What I was consciously thinking when placing the three fish in ascending/decending order was indeed evolution (Craig: your interpretations are so dead on that it's getting downright spooky!). Like astrophysics, Darwinian evolutionary theory is undergoing some fascinating changes as the fossil record becomes somewhat more clear. If this interests you, I heartily recommend Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin's book, "The Sixth Extinction," the first chapter of which is entitled "Time and Change." After thinking and reading much about evolution, two things impress me. First, the incredible resilance of life on earth, which has survived massive environmental and atmospheric chages. The second concept is how amazingly random events, most notably the occasional astroid impact, have been the key factor in determining today's species set, which, of course, includes homo sapiens.
Thanks again. More on evolution soon, but first a visit to "Time in a Bottle." --Jim
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Mário Sousa
{K:16985} 9/26/2003
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beautiful image
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Diamantino Mendes
{K:12959} 9/26/2003
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WOW Superb work very creative.
Congrats and regards!
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lidian neeleman
{K:6700} 9/26/2003
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cool art work...
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 9/26/2003
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Another stunning ensemble, Jim! Pity the fish weren't perch, then the bird would have had somewhere to land! (Groan!) Visually stunning, and I'm sure there's a message in there somewhere!
Keep on amazing us!
Kind regards, Chris.
P.S. I appreciated your recent comments - we'll keep the channels open.
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:94480} 9/26/2003
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original.wonderful.
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17684} 9/26/2003
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I just come to read your comments...oh, and the picture is great too!
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Audrey Reid
{K:5872} 9/26/2003
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Big party here, better bring in more drinks and glasses Jim. Hope the fish is enough to go around :))
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Sally Auman
{K:130} 9/26/2003
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Quite an imagination! Where did you get it? I want one.
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Kristina Kohut
{K:49990} 9/27/2003
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This is great, I love it! So interesting and artistic, so stupid and meaningful at same time... so superb!!!
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Alberto Agnoletti
{K:12808} 9/27/2003
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Fantastic work!!!!!
Congrats!
Best regards, Alberto
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Patricia Eifel
{K:5097} 9/27/2003
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I'm not sure what this means but it certainly made me giggle. Great imagination as always!
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Maja Gligoric
{K:13441} 9/27/2003
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Unique style! Very interesting photo. Is that photograph or ?
Have you ever seen Monty Payton show or some of movies?It could be in that style...
Regards!
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Gaetan Chevalier
{K:4188} 9/27/2003
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It is so original and creative. It is a pleasure for me to look at your style evolving in photoart.
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Igor L.
{K:7432} 9/27/2003
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WOW!!! Excellent!
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Harlan Heald
{K:13990} 9/28/2003
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Hello, Dali! Excellent surrealistic composition! Over the top!!!
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Ronny Van Eeckhoutte
{K:12734} 9/29/2003
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On of your best my friend.
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B:)liana
{K:30945} 9/30/2003
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Dear JIm. is it YOu? you are really full of imagination. great work here. I love you JimDalian. ha ha .. great. kiss. biliana
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michelle k.
{K:16270} 10/1/2003
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not only TOTALLY in my favorites but i SO would hang this on my wall it's AWESOME
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T L
{K:18928} 10/1/2003
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Beyond that i'm very sure... your time pictures are so ver,very good - and this is special...
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Ben Goossens
{K:500} 10/2/2003
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Hi Jim,
a crazy good one... I love the surrealistic idea and wished, I had made it.
I would love, if you made some corrections here, maybe I'm a pain in the a..., if so please tell me.
I would unsharp the horizon and darken the sky at the top to create more depht.
What you also could do is, placing the tree fishes at a different level, it would create more depht already
In attachment my proposition.
Friendly regards, Ben
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Yutaka Itinose
{K:21359} 11/3/2003
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Very very interesting image !Yes,100% perfect horizon level and right angle of fishes, and frame! Nice!
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kita mcintosh
{K:18594} 11/6/2003
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ah ah ah Mr John McDali` lol u ARE having fun here! and when a person combines fun and skill...WOW=a bombastic combination. Nothing better.
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