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Post by Dwazee on Feb 4, 2008 18:34:58 GMT -5
strat, to be honest ive always been drawn to odd or simple composition, so to me, its just so simplistic and leaves a lot open...like what is she doing? what's she looking for? sometimes i dont need too much going on to get my interest. but i know not everyone digs that... like i love this pic:  and this one:  annnnd:  all alex webb, btw, shooting in haiti. looove him. |
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Post by strat-0 on Feb 4, 2008 20:03:20 GMT -5
Well, I can see the futility or unrealness of the spark plug ads juxtaposed against the people in despair...
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Post by Dwazee on Feb 4, 2008 21:02:49 GMT -5
i'm not going...sometimes, for me as an artist, i want something pretty. now. my idea of pretty is a bit off, but people are drawn to aesthetics first and foremost for art.
there's a project i wanted to start here, of shooting rodeos and such, but i haven't had much time. i just think it'd be really interesting to go into that...it's so easy to go into sterotypes there. and i dont want to.
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Post by phil on Feb 12, 2008 15:14:20 GMT -5
 Luke ... I am ... full of hot air !! |
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Post by phil on Feb 12, 2008 15:17:45 GMT -5
I loooove Balloons ! So peaceful to catch a ride in one of those ...  |
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Post by Dwazee on Feb 12, 2008 23:45:20 GMT -5
ooooh im so afraid of those things. im convinced i'll die in one. enduring love was about one going haywire wasnt it? yeahhh. they do not look sturdy.  |
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Post by strat-0 on Feb 13, 2008 4:15:23 GMT -5
Aw, what's not sturdy about going thousands of feet up in the air in a little basket suspended by ropes from a gas bag of sewn together material with a fire under it? Heh... I'd go up in one anyway.
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Post by phil on Feb 13, 2008 7:47:10 GMT -5
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Post by Dwazee on Feb 13, 2008 9:46:43 GMT -5
yeahhh, i saw reading rainbow. i am unconvinced! it's gonna shake a bit, you will be really high up with nothing to hold you....it's like the ferris wheel only worse! agghh.
that said, when i was a kid i wanted to get into one. but now im scared of heights were i am not secured. yeaah.
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Post by phil on Feb 13, 2008 11:14:18 GMT -5
I'm a frog, you're a frog... Kiss me! And I'll turn into a prince, suddenly ...  I'm a cow, you're a ... Oh! Nevermind ...  |
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Post by phil on Feb 13, 2008 11:15:19 GMT -5
A flower !  |
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Post by strat-0 on Feb 13, 2008 20:08:34 GMT -5
The cow seems a bit hermaphroditic.
Is this something you partake in occasionally, Phil?
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Post by phil on Feb 13, 2008 23:38:15 GMT -5
The cow seems a bit hermaphroditic.
It's a Huckin' Flying Cow ...
Of course it will look a little wacked out ... ;D ;D
When the first hot air balloon Québec festival
started near montréal in the early 80's, I managed to
get a pass to take pictures during the event
so I got to know a few pilots ... I did this the first 3 years
and I was lucky enough to catch a few rides here and there.
It's been a while ...
I really got to get a new scanner !
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Post by RocDoc on Feb 14, 2008 15:45:59 GMT -5
so other than those 3 copyrighted photos, the rest are yours....and this result is from your scanner?
shit, i'd say your scanner is still doing pretty darned OK...nice stuff.
to add, i always thought i'd want to go for a balloon ride UNTIL....sometime last year, i think in vancouver there was a horrible-sounding tragedy where a basket caught fire as the thing was ascending....all family members, some made it some didn't.
but right now that image imprinted on my brain has me thinkin' 'um, heck no...sorry'
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Post by phil on Feb 14, 2008 16:21:56 GMT -5
Doc ... Not one of those pictures are mine ...
I've always worked in transparencies (kodachrome)
(must have about 6 or 7 thousands of those catalogued)
and the scanner I had before it clunked out wasn't doing
a good job at handling those ...
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