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kparks [2009-04-08 03:37:02 +0000 UTC]

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For me, this is an wonderful example of PolaroidVanGough's work, an excellent melding of subject matter and technique. The natural randomness of the tree branches goes perfectly with the busyness of the manipulation style.

Particularly effective is the way the manipulation breaks up the colors in the emulsion, creating the white highlights that transform what should be the deep background of the sky into a foreground surface, on the same plane as, and sometimes even in front of, the tree itself.

I also appreciate how the "hand of the artist" is so clearly visible in a *photographic* image. This serves as a reminder not only of the Impressionist style, from which the artist takes inspiration, but of parts of Impressionist philosophy, of a more humanist, individualist approach.

The image is not about the mechanics and chemicals of the photographic process. It's not about "science". The Artist himself is essential to the final work, turning a recording of a scene (as nice a composition as it would have been unmanipulated) into a piece of Art.

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EricForFriends [2009-04-09 11:38:55 +0000 UTC]

It's as if the wisdom is visually radiating from it through the texture that you added to it.

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Markus43 [2009-04-07 14:01:32 +0000 UTC]

Nice - much like reflected water

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