Hi Russ, too, always like your comments, even the ones I don't like
(not this one!) Had to look up another art word "intaglio" and learned another new thing. Remember, it's
virtual hand made paper and if I was doing traditional printing, I have always liked that hand made quality, I am thinking about platinum prints, but I digress. I definitely see your point about the repetition, but/and the image is somewhat clearer, more photographic to irritate Slobodan
while the first one is more compromised to some extent (I think) by the contribution from the gauzy curtain; I find it technically flawed therefore, but I do like that frigatebird. Also the slant of roof screws with my eye to some degree.
All of that being said, I did print a proof of these and was really pleased with the result. That grain addition helped greatly. Now if there was a way to impose an intaglio process on an inkjet printer output...
Take home message to me: I am fascinated by such subjects periodically, but I rarely photograph them for some reason and that will change going forward as I will shoot more of those. With regard to comments by muntanela and Patricia, if I fully understand and not taken pejoratively, I am reminded of the quote from the Good Book about the fact that there is no temptation that is not common to man. Or is it the Proverb that there is nothing new under the sun?