COMING SOON TO SNOW EVERYWHERE! - Scott Clarke

[palms1]

OK this maybe getting a tad sad, but here is a link on making bubbles etc.

http://www.teachingonline.org/bubbles.html

Palms

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by palms1

...C.J. I might enjoy the "On the Green River" ? I LOVE it, for me it is the best gallery, and for once i am glad it is not done in photoshop otherwise i would spend days no months trying to achieve something remotely similar, what a talented person, It is no good i am going to have to have a new camera and take some (ok a lot of ) lessons Palms

Palms, on the subject of photography, you might want to look at Mr. Clarke's gallery "Mother and Son"
http://www.pbase.com/clarkwil/mother_and_son

Be sure to open up each image and see it full size rather than thumbnails -- look at the expressions, the lighting, the tones, the textures... but especially the expressions....

[palms1]

Well C.J. i am blown away, what a stunning gallery. Where to begin picking one out to say anything about, First it would have to be the black and white ones of the mother (just her face ) the expression on them beautiful and she is a spring chicken of 96 ! ! ! ! Everyone else please take a look especially those who like draganizing ,
The next one that said something to me was the son's hands (boy do they look as if they have seen some work)
but the way i read it this photographer isnt proffesional ? even though photo work was part of his job ? something wrong there !

thanks for the link

Palms

[CJ Swartz]

Palms, he writes that he created these images when he was a sophomore in college 20 years ago -- and never LOOKED at them until the last year or so...!!!! It sounds like he knew they were quality images (of special subjects); I don't know why he didn't look at them or have someone else look at them, but thank goodness they still existed after being stored for 20 years.

He's emailed me back a couple of times to thank me for my comments, and may take a look at DPreview or RetouchPRO -- but I'm not holding my breath. His photographic eye (his soul, whatever it is that helps photographers SEE these images in their mind in order to create them) is not something he can likely share with others. Some of the images power comes from the film processing, but it's the subject, the lighting of the subject, and the composition of the elements that create most of the images power -- I can only look and admire. Others can perhaps be inspired and see their subjects in new ways that let them create images of similar power, even though different in subject matter.