I'm not sure that's a joke, Ray seems very serious in his posts. But I recall seeing a similar and a quite difficult photograph posted here a few years ago (Post #172 in the thread below). The composition was nice, but the environment seemed totally inappropriate for a woman in such a dress and with bare feet. She must have been helicoptered to that site.
Hot woman in a cold valley
Thanks for the link to that old thread, Les. I assure you if anyone had criticised that photo on the grounds of inappropriate dress for the surroundings, I would
not have jumped into a flurry of indignation and engaged in ad hominem attacks.
I'm not really interested in just praising every photo I comment on, as most people seem to do. That's not what critique is about.
The image you link to needs reprocessing. It was a long time ago. I'd make the foreground brighter were I to process it today. I think it's pretty obvious, even excluding the context of the article about photographic manipulation, that the photo is a joke. The kangaroo was inserted at your suggestion, to create a better balance.
However, I do prefer the Himalaya Dawn scene, shown on the first page of the thread. I now have a 4ft x 12ft polyptych print of that image on my wall, but without the nude ladies (?), because inserting them into the scene was also just a joke to highlight the potential absurdity of photographic manipulation.
Now, if Michele Son's photo that I've commented on, is also intended as a joke, then why not just say so, and I will admit my lack of perception in this regard.
