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Manu
{K:13082} 11/29/2004
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Great work...viva Dali!
Manu
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Val .
{K:4973} 10/14/2003
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great scenic work with photo in PS
Dali?
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Rui Leitão
{K:6321} 10/14/2003
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I see your portfolio.
You are really an expert in FS.
I worked with FS 7 but I would like to have your expertise!
Congrats, Ben!
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Hugo Pierre
{K:15692} 10/2/2003
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Very creative image. Great work and excellent execution. I can't add anything to the numerous praises you deserved. Bravo!
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shelby koning
{K:5450} 10/2/2003
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dali-esque, took me off guard for a moment, she who rarely lets her guard down... really striking work, love the relationship between the objects and the environment, out of place, but not completely... a true work of surrealism, you make me believe this.
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ClaÜdia Garza
{K:963} 10/2/2003
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WOW!! I?m agree with Marcin... Congrats!
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Emgy Massidda
{K:60358} 10/2/2003
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Brilliant and original PS composition
I'm impressed
Congratulations
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Anna Pagnacco
{K:7448} 10/2/2003
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I remember this one....still love it a lot, unique! Anna
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Ray Witter
{K:6149} 10/2/2003
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The species is called "flying shellfish" i believe. Very good and unique.
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Christopher Anderson
{K:201} 10/2/2003
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THIS is the type of work I'm trying to learn. This kind of thing is sort of an inpiration to me. Keep it up! Amazing.
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Marcin Gorski
{K:12388} 10/2/2003
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surreal, connection with Dali very certain, but it's great, excellently executed work
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 10/2/2003
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First, Ben, the title: It's brief, descriptive and yet poetic. How often does that happen?
These passive, floating creatures are fugitives in so many ways. Fugitives from the sea. From the many predators -- even from fishermen, shell collectors and unhinged photographers. Fugitives from the species to which they no longer belong (in fact, there's a whole interpretation that could be spun on ethnic conflict, but I won't go there). For some reason, I even have s sense of "fugitive color" -- that evil pigment on the painter's palette that is the first to fade and crack.
To me the brilliant beauty of this piece is how all the objects are ordinary and closely related -- yet you have transformed them into an extraordinary vision that lingers in the imagination, not to be soon forgotten. In the background is the sea, where fish swim suspended in water, much as your creatures float suspened in air. Below is the sand and a cobble weir, places where the snails, clams and mollusks of your "shell-fish" dwell. And the creatures themselves -- well this is evolution gone beserk -- but with a cunning logic. Because while the parts don't make a bit of biological sense, from a distance, everything seems to be going along just swimmingly. A comment on modern culture? On mass media? On politicians whose manipulation of facts make them fugitives from the truth?
It is, in the end, just another day at the beach. But a beach only your mind could imagine. Thanks for the dedication, friend Ben, it is a great honor! --Jim
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B:)liana
{K:30945} 10/2/2003
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wow.. excellent montage. Great IDea and execution and dedication. You are so sweet.
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 10/2/2003
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Stunning montage, Ben! Your talents clearly aren't appreciated as much on usefilm as they are on photo.net ~ not yet anyway!
Great work ~ made me smile out loud!
Regards, Chris.
P.S. I'm glad to see Jim's noticed it!
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 10/2/2003
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Ben, there's something fishy here! More soon.
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