Without Prejudice 2

[Rob C]

Re the washing up photo : it was taken with the "old" Sigma 85/1.4. Why anyone would suppose it needed to be replaced by something bigger and heavier is beyond me, although doubtless there are marketing advantages.

On the theme of sharpness and absence thereof:

Exactly. Why would it need to be sharp? The mood is what the mood is; the information you want to show is what you show.

I still envy you your model options... divine irony (ou rétribution que je dois souffrir). Either way, I don't enjoy it!

(Maybe that sentiment could be used to start Slobodan's Prima Donna thread?)

;-)

Rob

[GrahamBy]

Frankly, I don't see the interest in painting stripes on that face, but there you go.

The project this time was that he painted her face while she played Rameau's Invitation aux Muses with her eyes shut...

[Rob C]

Frankly, I don't see the interest in painting stripes on that face, but there you go.

The project this time was that he painted her face while she played Rameau's Invitation aux Muses with her eyes shut...

Stranger and yet stranger... was she wearing anything much else, or just the piano?

;-)

Rob

[GrahamBy]

Ah, we can but dream...

[Rob C]

Very nice Graham! Really enjoy your black/white work.

Rob

[Rob C]

Rob

[GrahamBy]

Oh, translucent spikes!

And I found the sound track for Cynthia (recorded 3 months earlier on a decent piano):
https://soundcloud.com/cynthia-caubisens/rameau-lentretien-des-muses

(That makes two "record covers" for me, one as photographer and one as model. No doubt I'll soon be very rich)

[graeme]

Wheelbarrow.

[graeme]

A few from Turton Tower, Lancashire, UK.

[graeme]

And one more...

[Patricia Sheley]

 Passages~

[Rob C]

Ah Patricia, just as I see my own personal bridges that little too close yet so distant; a few moments here and then where? Alone again or united for ever? Yet, better alone than drowning in the party of fools, the noise of the rabble a weight more than lead.

How one's ideas about photography change, develop and slide further away from the reporting of what we thought valid towards that which always evades us just enough to keep us trying again and again. Our backs turn against the factual as the lure of the other presses ever more hard and increasingly urgent; gone the time when reporting the material, the physical seen was the achievement, a position to be replaced as a player reinventing that place as stage meant more until now, when even that conceit fades into futility, and one seeks further realities that might be as false as the others.

Rob

[Rob C]

Oh, translucent spikes!

And I found the sound track for Cynthia (recorded 3 months earlier on a decent piano):
https://soundcloud.com/cynthia-caubisens/rameau-lentretien-des-muses

(That makes two "record covers" for me, one as photographer and one as model. No doubt I'll soon be very rich)

That little reflection/highlight grouping makes it!

Rob

[Rob C]

As an afterthought, based on that cactus image, were mothers to inform their young daughters along those lines, there might well be fewer social problems for governments to face, patch and support.

Regarding Russ's image of the girl sitting on the rail: is she holding a mirror to the passers by or is it a washboard and musical attempt at prising money from pockets? If the former, then that is a very imaginative confrontaion by her. Even perhaps more personal than shooting street!

Rob

[muntanela]

Vaccinium microcarpum, the fruit (with remains of the flower, see the flower here http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=75820.1720 and the photo of Konrad Lauber here https://www.infoflora.ch/it/flora/831-vaccinium-microcarpum.html ).

SCI of Falck Hut, Eastern Grosina Valley, Valtelline.

[Patricia Sheley]

quote Rob: " just as I see my own personal bridges that little too close yet so distant; a few moments here and then where? "

Perfect illustration Rob, of reading as we do that which is revealed, with our own unique palette, knives and brushes. As I turned from west to check the path of that evening light, the passages appeared (where you see fragile [perhaps unwelcome] bridges looming.) Your take gives pause to my own, opportunity for path from which to leap, not as termination rather of risk, to open as the west is for dream, imagination, creativity. (Just because the Rothko explorations became so deeply dark in the end, did not mean (to me) that he had become less sensitive to the light, only that he had become more so. Always appreciate your take on my explorations. Best thing that has happened for me here has been the pitching of obsessing over 100% crops... just an excuse. No longer operating on the fear plane of an others J'accuse. Love and lumine Rob.
Patricia

[Rob C]

"No longer operating on the fear plane of an others J'accuse."

Only way to survive adulthood; don't let anchors do their thing when you have to sail onwards. No-one is obliged to follow your wake... there is no conscience, only hope.

Rob

[graeme]

Don't know why - I just liked this vase.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I would like to nominate Patricia and Rob for the position of Poets in Residence at LuLa Forum.
They are both poets of images as well as of words.

[graeme]

Green box.