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raun — the foreigner
Published: 2003-12-08 12:35:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 29101; Favourites: 981; Downloads: 19626
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"A foreigner from fielded landsWith prairie thoughts of desert sands
Who'd never seen a wood of oak,
He came to visit forest folk.
And in surprise he only sees
The mighty oaks and cypress knees,
Begged, "Someone will you help me please?
I cannot see the forest for the trees."
So I, a common forest folk,
Rustled in the leaves and spoke,
"Don't look into the wooden faces
Searching for the forest places;
Wander with the scented breeze,
Past mighty oaks and cypress knees,
Forget the timber your eye sees;
Our forest is the space between the trees." - Thomas James Allen
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Comments: 428
wow i love the poem... it very clearly illustrates this pic.... awesome shot..... did you use a stock photo for the man?
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nice pic, nice poem...goes to my favs..
greets
hank0r
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amazing work, great contrast and a well fitting title. nice job.
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i gave it a 
but since you had it put here and thus letting me be able to read it, i'll just make that the fav for ya then
very nice pic too.
love how that lonely tree came out.
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Unbelievable
Even without the guy it would be a great shot.... simply beautiful
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theres something magical in this photograph..
the guy add a strange touch to this cool piece
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Love the picture. I'm speechless. How did you that?
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Dear god that light! Catch me I'm falling.
Marry me.
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holy jeez.... love this, a lot! such dramatic light ... as well as a dramatic figure! awesome shot!!!
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it looks like something that looks strange.
maybe if it was more fake and set up?
(i hope you find my comment makes either perfect and/or no (n) sense.)
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excellent light! 
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Wow! How amazing. The contrast of the shadows and sunlight is amazing. The man seems surreal in the natural background, the stuff of dreams in the middle of the night that make no sense. Intense!
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and the light streaming through the windows is absolutely gorgeous.
excellent job! keep up the great work.
best wishes!
-FC-
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where/when is this taken?
this has to be worked with in photoshop..
sweet
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MY LORD!!! This is gorgeous....everything about it is perfect....
wonderful wonderful work
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wow this is amazing! the tones, the clarity, the lighting, the textures!
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wow such a creative shot. i can imagine so much stories behind this scene. great work
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Wow, that looks fantastic. Not sure if you were at all going for any kind of goth look, but the black and white aristocrat alone in a forest is deliciously eerie and beautiful at the same time. Great work.
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Do you know what it feels like when you seem to be on the verge of being killed by the beauty you see in something? It's sweetly intense. Right up there with having to wait for the thouch of the one you desire. The Foreigner put me there right now.
Don't tell me I need a life. I don't. I have one. I'm passionate. And so I'm passionate about some images - often enough they are yours. But you know that, freak show. My master of the visual part of my brain - and soul (which in my case does have a visual side)...
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indeed beautiful to read. Thanks verero for leaving sucha wonderful comment on my photo
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Beautiful shot! Great composition...I really like the light coming from behind the three's
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oh mY! i've never loved a photo that much before! +fav!
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oh come on raun, this is just superb! i love your composition and contrast. not to mention the sunrays
could you give us some tech. info ? like your cam ? exposure and aperture and stuff ? also i would like to know how much of this is photoshop and how much is real, if you dont mind telling
too good for dA
man, im glad im watchin you. your work is so inspiring
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hi mia 
Heres the most important exif's :
Model name :E995
Quality mode :FINE
Metering mode :Multi-pattern
Exposure mode 
Flash :No
Focal length :8.2 mm
Shutter speed :1/146.4second
Aperture :F3.3
Exposure compensation :0 EV
Fixed white balance :Auto
In photoshop I up'ed the contrasts, applied neat image (very gentle noiseremoval), desaturated it with the channelmixer and finally added the yellowish glow by using the colorbalance.
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magnific i really love the sun, bursting trought the trees, beautifull
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pretty spectacular this, well conceived and shot, great work
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THis is really awesome
the quality and atmosphere blows me away!
+fav
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thanks x-horizon
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you're welcome man 
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Your artwork keeps on getting better and better. Amazing..
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I'm glad you think so 
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great.... eyes outa my head... man, damn.
Pespective.. contrast, idea - kicks ass... I'm impressed. Description - amazing. good job.
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lovely contrast between the elegant man and the wild forest
maybe i would have added more sunrays in the upper part of the work, unless you wanted to communicate that the sun is going down... but when it goes down, its rays are not strong enough to enter a forest... i don't know
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hi and thanks for your comment. I've altered the intensity of the rays, but havent added or removed any rays. This was natural sunlight at noon a week ago.
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