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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
12/10/2009 3:32:16 AM
Armando, my friend! How nice to hear from you again! I was going through some photos the other night and came across the photoshop you did years ago of my son's head on a chicken's body... a brilliant piece of work. He's seven now, something I find difficult to believe.
Cheers,
Jon
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
12/10/2009 3:29:06 AM
Thanks, Andre. I'm not sure what small town bars are like in far off Ontario, but here in Saskatchewan, they pretty much all have a part that look like this.
Cheers,
Jon
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
12/10/2009 3:26:45 AM
Well now that's the question, isn't it? The whole expedition was a voyage of return. I have a couple other shots from this trip up on UF (the bowling alley, eg). I went back to the places where I grew up and tried to shoot them not as they are now, but as they exist in my memory. Which is not quite the same as "as they once were". Very difficult to do. I don't think I succeeded, really. I think that I found that a) you can't go home again; but b) when you get to the place where home once was, it is all strangely familiar but eerily wrong. Some things are totally different and others - like the Craven bar - haven't changed at all. One of the really good things about it was that I managed to lay some ghosts that had been haunting me for far too long.
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
12/7/2009 3:59:07 AM
What happened to her hand? Very cool, btw.
Jon
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
12/6/2009 5:47:54 AM
LOL... sorry... when I think of agnes moorhead, the only image I get is Derwood's mother in law... :-]
Thanks for the critique.
Cheers
Jon
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
12/2/2009 5:07:54 AM
Excellent. Our nefarious plan is succeeding.
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Photo By: Jim Loy
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
12/2/2009 5:04:16 AM
Good thought. I don't know, to be honest. It came off a site advertising "Free Desktop Wallpaper", here:
http://www.wallpaperdesktop.eu/
("Night Sky, Aganippe")
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| Photo By: Jon O'Brien
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
12/2/2009 4:51:57 AM
Roma look out! Crazy Jim Loy, the most beautiful of Ugly Americans is coming... with his camera. We look forward to the Eternal City shot as she has never been shot before. Thank God MM will be there to keep you out of serious trouble.
Caput Mundi, baby!
LOL,
Jon
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
9/8/2009 4:34:04 AM
Great colour contrast and POV. I would have picked a more evocative title.
Cheers,
Jon
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| Photo By: Khaled Mursi Hammoud
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
9/8/2009 4:31:56 AM
Very good in high contrast - an excellent treatment of this subject.
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
9/5/2009 4:58:04 PM
Oh, they're there, alright. I was sitting across the street and had to wait for breaks in traffic to get the shot
Cheers,
Jon
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
9/5/2009 4:57:06 PM
Thanks, Andre. It is an entry for a camera club competition with the theme "Song and Artist" so I wanted this title anyway :-]
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
9/2/2009 5:46:06 AM
He is getting a bit of air, isn't he?
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
9/2/2009 4:59:30 AM
I was going to add - Saskatchewan is thick with old farmhouses, leftover from the days of the 1/4 section homestead. Farms get bigger, the rural population declines, and the result is ghost towns and abandoned farmsteads. Very sad (and between abandoned cisterns, rotted floors and falling-down barns, a bit dangerous to explore).
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| Photo By: Andre Denis
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
9/2/2009 4:56:14 AM
Nice place. I prefer the colour over the B&w, but but the sky turned out better in the monochrome shots.
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
8/11/2009 5:15:02 AM
This is a stunning shot. I tried cropping the right edge off a bit, just to the white spark dealies, and I think it helps to balance it a bit. Unless you don't WANT it balanced, of course :0]
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
8/11/2009 5:11:03 AM
There is a marvellous video on this subject, possibly on youtube. Very cool.
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/19/2009 11:25:01 PM
My thought exactly, although water skiing becomes a bit problematic. The motor is completely silent. My nephew started it at one point and took us in a lazy circle, and my only sense of movement was that the moon started drifting across the sky. It was a bit disorienting for a moment!
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/15/2009 11:37:41 PM
The only bad things were the number of hangovers suffered by the overindulgers of the night before, of which this writer was, fortunately, not one. :-]
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| Photo By: Jon O'Brien
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/15/2009 5:12:43 AM
And here I was thinking "Electric Chicken"
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| Photo By: Arcturus Wolfe
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/15/2009 5:12:12 AM
Science Centre, I'm guessing? Very cool...
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/14/2009 5:16:58 PM
This is the original.
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/14/2009 4:42:27 AM
Thanks, Andre and everyone else who commented. I have to say that I have never before this shot found ants to be beautiful. Normally, well... I squish 'em. But they really are quite exquisite, aren't they? I still don't want them making a mess of my damned lawn, however....
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| Photo By: Jon O'Brien
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/13/2009 6:45:44 PM
Thanks, Randy. I want to get back there for a sunset shot one of these evenings as well.
Cheers,
Jon
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/13/2009 6:44:54 PM
On the assumption that the mice can speak neither english, french, nor cat-onese, I did them using graphics. Which they appear to be ignoring. I should also like to point out that our cats are very effective at controlling the local songbird population - always a good thing at 4:30 in the morning. Now if they could only do something about the damned crows...
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| Photo By: Jon O'Brien
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/9/2009 4:26:59 PM
Excellent composition and interestingly toned.
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| Photo By: Barun Chowdhury
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/8/2009 2:24:00 AM
...let's try this again...
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/8/2009 2:23:12 AM
Attached - not such a tight crop.
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/7/2009 6:38:58 AM
Which is why it's sitting out at the end of the farmer's driveway, I'm thinking.
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Critique By:
Jon O'Brien (K:11321)
7/4/2009 7:32:38 PM
Thanks, Saad.
Cheers,
Jon
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