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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 1/22/2009
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Thanks again Derick!
I'm glad you like my work. I'm especially please about the comments on the moods in my work. Sometimes mood and atmosphere comes easy in an image, and sometimes you have to work at it a bit.
This one was a natural. I must have taken at least 50 shots that morning.
Andre
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Derick Smith
{K:352} 1/17/2009
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The fog and the water mixed with the fall colors make this a fantastic photograph. Such a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere. You have a real talent for capturing moods in your work. I am having a great time looking through your impressive portfolio.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 12/9/2008
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I can only hope that you will continue visiting the absurd place of photography, Andre! You are perhaps making fewer images in this domain but they are good. They are not teh results of "quick and dirty playing around". I can see that there is also vision prior to implementation on them.
Thanks a lot for the attachment! I imagined something like that but now I have a better impression about its look and how it works. A good and simple idea for avoiding such accidents!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 12/6/2008
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Thanks again Nick,
I definitely will continue with that type of image. I think doing that kind of thing can't really be forced. If I try too hard to "create", I'm never satisfied with the result. But sometimes, the ideas just flow very easily.
On another note, I can see why you would have thought you were looking at the dam in this image. I've attached an image I took of those same barrels from the opposite side of them, while I was standing on the dam. In the attached image there is no question that the orange barrels are simply a safety barrier that have been put across the river to stop boats from getting too close. If the orange barriers were not there, a swimmer, kayaker, or a small motor boat would not have the power to stop from being sucked over the dam to the rapids below.
Unfortunately, I don't have an image of the twin dams themselves.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 12/6/2008
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Hi Nick,
Thanks for visiting the "goat" image and commenting on the image and it's style. I am glad you interpret the image the way you do. I have to admit that I was trying my hand at some styles of some famous "fantasy" photographers that I have seen over the years. As I say, I am pleased that the images seem to be getting the reaction that was intended.
I am not 100% satisfied with the results (naturally) But, I will keep trying. Every now and then, I will stop posting my usual wildlifes, landscapes and auto shots, and take a trip back to the slightly absurd side. :)
Thanks again for the great in depth comment.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 12/4/2008
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BTW, the pure technical side of "The Incongruous Goat" is exactly fitting the content. It is a clear image considering the recognition of components in the technical sense, but still with all the necessary technical "indefiniteness" that goes hand in hand with the inability to say right away what the content might be. So, one has to find a way to approach the image through all that grain and apparently diffuse view of things, but you don't try to "oblige" the spectator to take some special way that you favor.
The latter is the big mistake that many "abtract artists" do. They expect you to "understand" their own methodology of abstraction by presenting you some smudges. And this is really too cheap, too sad for an abstract. An abstract that becomes an abstract only by pressing the maker's mind onto the spectator's mind is only a complete failure. For me it is rather an unneeded violation, almost a r*a*p*i*n*g.
I must say, I would only wish you to continue with this kind of image. You have all the good ideas and also that kind of... how can I put it in words now? I mean that good intention to not apply any kind of "pressure" to the spectator by demanding him/her to switch over to your own ideas, feelings, thoughts, whatever. For me it is a very democratic attitude, and as such also very down to earth.
About the dam now, thanks a lot for telling me! So this is only the protection against potential accidents. I really thought it was the dam itself because it looks exactly like the (very small) dam that we have here in Lucerne in the river Reuss in the middle of the city. It is a wooden construction, rather a grid than a completely solid dam, that simply generates a resistance against the fully free flow of the water. That is, the gaps of the grid allow water to flow but of course in a lower rate than whithout them. And in times of high water, when you look from a certain point from a bridge in the city, you can see only the tops of the main elements of that grid, which resemble the floaters of your image very strongly. I guess we can't really compare it with the dam over there in Canada - it was only the "partial view" that introduced such connections in my mind. In a way.. everything is smaller here in old good Switzeria! ;-) And in Lucerne it gets even smaller considering the general expectations that one may have from a city. But this also brings some certain kind of "nice naivity" that I find so sympathetic around here. ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 12/4/2008
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Well Andre, waht can I say, your "The Incongruous Goat" is cool as a title and even cooler as content of an image. Many try to depict the "unexpected" as a kind of entrance into the abstract category, but the way the do it is less than amateuric. They would usually mix up the effects of 300 filters and other things, expecting the image to be "abtract" just because it presents something "unrecognizable" - I hope you understand what I try to express. Buut the thing is, abstraction doesn't mean that "diffuse" thing that is usually presented. I would rather go as far to place "The Incongruous Goat" in the best examples of how little means and how much thinking is needed for a good abstract. Because... let's take things right from the start.
The Incongruous Goat... what do we see? Is there anything strange (taken for itself) there? No. It is just a coach, it is just a goat. Usual things, aren't they? But then, with just these two things you generate all the brainstorming that has to accompany any abstract. And you generate it without the typical, artificial "strain" with which most "abstract artists" try to induce that brainstorming. You don't present some smudge there, as if the spectator had the obligation to start suggestive thinking by the mere sight of it. And this kind of presentation of familiar things in such an unfamiliar concept works brilliantly.
There is of course the question if it is only a "momentary shock". But I think that it is way more than the first impression, when one stays ecstatic in front of something so usual in its components and at the same time so unusual in its *marriage* of components. After the first surprise the very content of the scene in all its absurdity starts working in mind. And it gets less and less "absurd" but also more and more... abstract. An abstract that doesn't manage to introduce some kind of "disorder" in mind, as reason for thinking and re-ordering... well, that would be no abstract. It would be perhaps "fantasy" but this is something else.
So, from this point of view, I see relations between your "The Incongruous Goat" and those extremely remaining glances of your images "From The Deep Woods". It is "familiar" but also "abstruse" - negating my standard pictures of the world in a very subtle way.
-- To be continued --
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 11/19/2008
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Thanks again Luca,
I'm glad you like it. This one has been my background picture on my computer ever since I posted it.
It looks much different up there right now. Snow and ice are everywhere.
Andre
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Luca Peccerillo
{K:17660} 11/16/2008
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Fantastic foggy atmosphere
very very nice work....Ciao
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 10/23/2008
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Interesting that you mention the pipe together with the leaves as a way to make an object stand out. As you say, we imagine a pipe belonging on a desk, so it doesn't get the attention. Put it where it doesn't belong and it stands out and becomes interesting. Someone used the word "incongruous" to describe one of my images a while ago. So I re-named the image "The Incongruous Goat" I thought it sounded kind of cool. http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1054033
On another note, I may have misled you a little with the title of this image. The dam is actually about 100 yards further down the river from this image. The orange cylinders that you see in the image are large floating drums that are strung together to keep boats from going closer to the dam.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 10/16/2008
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Thanks for the visit and comment Jessie.
I'm glad you like it.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/15/2008
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Hi Andre!
I also think that many times such an "isolated" artificial object can be very nice on an image of some landscape. It adds, as you say, another point of interest, and it also raises the contrast between natural and artificial. A pipe, for example, would almost disappear if captured between many other objects in some messy desk. (Like mine! ;-)) But put it perhaps between many leaves on the ground and it suddenly catches attention. Same goes for a bridge in an otherwise vast green environment, and so on.
In this sense on this one the dam could be also even more dominating, I think. It would put that kind of accent on the image in a stronger way. The question is then of course when it is enough strongly represented in order to not overshoot.
Cheers!
Nick
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jessie voigts
{K:6772} 10/15/2008
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just incredible, andre!! bravo!
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 10/13/2008
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Thanks very much Mojgan.
Glad you like it!
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 10/13/2008
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Thanks again Nick.
I like this one a little more than I did at first. I wasn't too sure if I liked the man made elements in the image. But, I recently read in a photo annual that it is sometimes a good thing to add a slight man-made element in a vast landscape as a secondary point of interest. I have to admit, I didn't do that intentionally. But, I think there is some merit in that theory.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 10/13/2008
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Thanks very much Sam,
I'm glad you like it. That early morning mist certainly helps to create a fairy tale atmosphere.
Andre
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Mojgan Bahasadri
{K:16243} 10/13/2008
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Very wonderful image and very good composition. The colours, tones .... are amazing.
be well,
Mojgan
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/6/2008
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Definitely, Andre! It is a strong atmosphere! Exactly for this reason it is also tricky to get it right. But your did that very well!
Cheers!
Nick
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Sam Andre
{K:12484} 10/5/2008
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this is fairy tale stuff... very good
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 10/4/2008
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Thanks very much Ray.
I enjoyed taking these images and working with them. It was such a lovely few days up north.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 10/4/2008
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Thanks Biljana,
As I said to Kes earlier, we had two of the nicest days of the year when I took the last few pictures.
Glad you like it!
Andre
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 10/3/2008
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Hiya Andre long time no see!
This is a wonderful composition full of morning mystery and those beautiful Autumnal colours peering through the mist. An excellent early morning capture my friend, well done to you. Thank you for remembering me and yes I am back but in a fairly limited way for the time being. My very best wishes to you Andre, as always......Ray
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biljana mitrovic
{K:48110} 10/3/2008
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It's one of my Favorites...everything is here: Autumn,beautiful forest,water,mist = perfect image for my eyes:)))
big hug and thank you
biljana
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 10/2/2008
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Thanks Nick,
I always find it is all about "atmosphere" with fog and mist images. I always enjoy trying this kind of shot.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/1/2008
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Very good for the mature colors under that "steamy" appearance, Andre! I find the fine details of the trees under the haze very attractive. I don't know if the composition is the best possible, but if we leave that aside the atmosphere comes through very nicely. I think that the well balanced lighting is responsible for that. It also allowed the distance to be burned on the image as the visibility gets lower and lower but quite smoothly toward the depth.
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 9/30/2008
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Hi Andrzej,
Thanks for the comment and suggestions. I agree completely with taking out the fences and even those barrels along the water. As a matter of fact, if it was up to me, I would take them all out of the landscape for real . :)
None of that man-made stuff was there in the mid sixties when we first had our cottage there. It has all been put up for our own good (safety and security) Fishing and trespassing of any kind are no longer allowed on the south side of the dam for about 2K. This is all due to an unfortunate accident at another dam somewhere else entirely.
I shouldn't complain too much I suppose because most of the land around us up there is still very much unspoiled.
BTW Last week, my wife and I went and visited some places that I haven't been to in years. We took a ride up Old Barry's Bay Road to Kaszuby, Crooked Slide Park and Dam Lake (where my parents rented in 1960) Then on to Wilno and Golden Lake.
The leaves were fantastic last week!
Andre
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Andrzej Pradzynski
{K:22541} 9/30/2008
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Nice and serene scenery, great early fall view with a mood and feel for harmony. For improvement I would clone out the fences run parallel to the shore or tried to find better angle to minimize this small dissonance. Cheers, NJ
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 9/30/2008
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Thanks Dave,
Yep, It's almost worth getting up early for shots like this. :) The leaves were pretty well perfect last week up at our cottage.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 9/30/2008
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Thanks Jim,
Fog and mist are just a no brainer for "atmosphere" I always try to take at least a few shots like this when I can get up early enough. :)
Thanks again.
Andre
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 9/30/2008
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A beautiful atmospheric shot through the fog, Andre! Nicely done, and great fall colour!
Dave.
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Jim Budrakey
{K:24393} 9/30/2008
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Love the atmosphere in this shot. Very nice indeed.
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Avi
{K:70138} 9/30/2008
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would love to see them. best, Avi
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 9/30/2008
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Thanks for the visit and comment Don.
Mist and fall colour are a great combination to work with. The morning light helps too.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 9/30/2008
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Thanks very much for the visit and comment. I appreciate the suggestions for improvement. I have many different compositions of the area, and may post a couple more later.
Andre
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don blasingame
{K:3492} 9/29/2008
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very nice moody landscape. excellent use of the mist. love the colors
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Avi
{K:70138} 9/29/2008
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A little less of the lake at the bottom, and a straightening of the shore line - that'd make this perfect ! great job nonetheless Andre !
cheers,
Avi
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