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64 Feb 21 Comment Thank you, everyone, for the feedback. Feb 25th
64 Feb 21 Comment This is a nice image...just wish the shadows were opened a tad. The geometry of the image and the subject tells a story that keeps me within the image and again, as you often do, gives a perspective that is one of total honesty to your subject. I very much like how you capture the light seeping through the slates of wood and striking the wood floor. Feb 15th
64 Feb 21 Comment Stuart, this is a wonderful monochrome effect which I feel very comfortable staying within and experiencing. I like it a 1000x more then the color version which while nice doesn't hold by contrast...meaning the actual contrast achieved in the mono conversion, a feel of timelessness. Very nicely done. Feb 15th
64 Feb 21 Comment This is a fascinating study, Helen. I'd rather see less grain, but that is a matter of taste and you as the creator preference for tonal effect. I like the contrasting geometric lines created with direct angularity at the upper right and the circle of the plate and the oval of the egg and how all that is accentuated or perhaps better said punctuated by the shadow lines and elliptical effect that the egg exaggerates. You have created a very nice image worth real studying. Now this is said after much thought, for honestly, when I first saw the image I was not particularly taken by it, but with revisits, I have gotten more and more interested with how the image effects me. Frankly, I think it is truly a wonderful piece of art and it can only manifest itself so clearly and beautifully as a monochrome piece! Feb 15th
64 Feb 21 Comment Beautiful image with wonderful tones, interesting perspective and excellent depth of field to minimize, in my opinion, any surrounding distractions (that monochrome does that better then the color version) so that the view focuses on the building and yet sees it in context with its surroundings. Very well done. Feb 15th
64 Feb 21 Comment I am often bewildered, at the least, by Picasso's art work. My wife and I stumbled upon a wonderful exhibit of his work back in 2018 when in Marsaille. I found some it quite evocative and it drew me into it for reasons that were hard to explain. However, I use to see this piece of art almost daily when I lived in work in Chicago back in the late 70s, through 80s and 90s. I photographed it in my own way (see below) one night nearly 11 years ago and converted to B&W about 4 years later. While I suspect that the references to a wife or female figure are likely true, how do we ever know what was in the convoluted mind of Picasso. The lines and shape certainly are similar through to female figures throughout his paintings and other sculptures. I enjoyed your description and thoughts in taking the image and then offering us for study here in our group. Technically, you have done very well presenting it.

Now to your image, I like it a lot for it places it in time and place and gives us a perspective rarely if never shown in the many images captured by others. It is a fine journalistic tribute and look so vintage, but even more interesting for the back to side profile certainly gives us an interesting study.		 Feb 15th
64 Feb 21 Comment Very interesting capture of industrial processing. Grunge is certainly an appropriate effect, but I would like, the shadows opened a little. Thanks for sharing this image and letting us see it through your eyes. Feb 15th
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