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picturebyclay In reply to oursin-vert [2010-05-11 12:24:11 +0000 UTC]

Merci Vincent,

A l'origine elle était ratée, trop de flou de bougé, mais en noir et blanc très dur ça passe !!!!!

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oursin-vert In reply to picturebyclay [2010-05-11 12:29:29 +0000 UTC]

Je connais ça la photo qui a le plus de succès dans ma galerie est aussi une photo ratée :-p

Merci pour le watch ...

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picturebyclay In reply to oursin-vert [2010-05-11 12:35:09 +0000 UTC]

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picturebyclay In reply to Philaeria [2010-03-30 14:13:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks...

Though it is not the most romantic shoot here, I really appreciate your nice comment !!!

Thanks again

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picturebyclay In reply to Tuuj [2010-01-10 07:10:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the compliment !!!

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picturebyclay In reply to eyenoticed [2009-12-24 11:53:34 +0000 UTC]

You are really kind, thanks

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2009-12-17 08:35:50 +0000 UTC]

yes I ffully understand what you mean...

And you exactely point it out...

She was in fact refusing to be shot, and it is a kind of stolen picture !!!!

And as I never ask people to pose, lots of my portrait are spontaneous !!!!

Thanks for the comment, and the fav !!

Also please say thank you to Sublimebudd for the feature, thanks to him, my photos reached you !!!

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2009-12-17 17:11:01 +0000 UTC]

the spontaneous ones are the best. people don't try to change themselves or behave differently for the camera so you can catch real people. this picture really makes me want to go out and just take pictures of people passing by. try to capture some moments.
i shall thank him plentifully for bringing your beautiful pictures to me.

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2009-12-19 16:16:50 +0000 UTC]

Speaking of taking people portrait in the street, do you know that here in Europe, or maybe just in France (????), photographers are supposed to have a signed authorization contract for using their image !!!!!!

Legally it is not possible to catch people faces without their official permission !!!!!!!!!

I wander what "Doisneau" would have done then !!!!!!!!


Andbtw you are really too kind about my photography !!!!

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2009-12-22 10:16:18 +0000 UTC]

that's not very productive for a photographer...
i haven't heard of that here (even though i am in europe ;D), but i've heard of photographers being arrested in the uk for photographing stuff on the grounds that they might be engaging in terrorist activity. which is really frightening.

and you have only yourself to blame. it is your photography that makes me have these kind feelings.

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2009-12-22 10:24:18 +0000 UTC]

Sorry I forgot you are in Iceland !!!!!!!

Never heard about that UK insanity !!!!! Really scary as you said !!!!!

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2009-12-23 11:00:45 +0000 UTC]

heh heh heh... well, we're in the middle of nowhere. nobody ever remembers we exist. except when björk is on the news. XP

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2009-12-24 12:04:19 +0000 UTC]

Common, this is not fair !!!!!!

A lot of people have heard about Iceland !!!!

They just don't know that there are people living there !!!!!!! LOL

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2009-12-28 17:11:56 +0000 UTC]

heh heh heh... that's quite true.
still, my heart always jumps a little when i hear iceland mentioned somewhere. two of my favourite instances:

i monty python live at hollywood bowl there is a sketch about a guy who comes to a travel agency for an adventure holiday and goes into an endless rant about how shitty package tours are and about five minutes into it he says "and they say it'll only be another hour but you know that's a lie cause your plane is still in iceland..."

and in a movie called guesthouse paradiso there is a famous italian actress that goes missing and pops up at the guesthouse paradiso which is run by two sad tossers. when they realize who it is, this is what they say:
-it's gina carbonara!
-yeah!
-them millens from milan!
-the rump from rome!
-the rectum from reykjavik. (capital of iceland)
-wait a minute, that can't be right.
-i don't know, she gets around.

it's silly i know, but i kinda like it. even though most of the times it's used as a general reference to some place which is small, crummy, far away and hardly anyone's heard of.

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2009-12-29 07:47:39 +0000 UTC]

in my pov, Iceland is a great place to be !

Ok the weather is pretty hard to stand, the nights are pretty long, but the beauty of the land is awesome, the creativity of artists is stunning, also you have one of the most difficult language to learn in the world !!!!

Maybe is it because of all those things that I wish one day to discover your island !!!!

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2009-12-29 09:07:11 +0000 UTC]

well, the weather isn't always that bad. it's been said of the weather in iceland that if you don't like it, just wait five minutes. i have been standing by a road waiting to cross, with sun glaring in my eyes and rain beating on my back.

the nights are long yes. and at their longest these days (winter solstice was on the 21st of december). for example today there will be sunrise at 11:22 and sunset at 15:40 that's a pretty short day. on the other hand when the days are the longest in the summer there are a couple of nights when the sun doesn't set. that is to say if you're in a sufficiently flat part of the country. i grew up in a valley so in wintertime i wouldn't even see the sun for a few months in the winter cause it's always so low on the horizon it never managed to cast any rays above the mountains.

in my opinion the difficulty of a new language all depends on what language you speak to begin with. can you use a ground base of your own language or do you need to learn a whole new system? do you even need to learn the "abc's" from scratch? in your case i would say that learning icelandic isn't all that difficult because you've got the germannic starting point. and the fact is that those parts of english as it is spoken today that correspond with our mutual roots aren't all that different. sure, we've got inflections and stuff but that's just the icing on the cake.

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2009-12-29 10:16:05 +0000 UTC]

I really love the way you are speaking (writing in fact !!) of your country....

within the humour i can feel the tenderness you feel for it !!!!

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2009-12-31 09:16:50 +0000 UTC]

thank you.
yes, i like it here. if i could hug it i would. it needs a hug these days. :/

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2009-12-31 09:50:30 +0000 UTC]

I almost feel the same for mine, actually !!!!

Always being stretch between two different languages !!!!!!!

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2010-01-01 20:15:01 +0000 UTC]

well, i suppose i am biased in the language department speaking five languages to begin with.

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2010-01-01 22:07:24 +0000 UTC]

You are not going to tell me that I am busy for days now trying to express myself in english, while you are perfectly speaking, writing and thinking in French !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ????????????????????????????

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2010-01-04 09:59:47 +0000 UTC]

well, no. not french. well, i speak french a bit but i'm not that fluent. however, icelandic is my first language, english second, then danish and german and i'm pretty much fluent in them as well, and then i'm pretty good at swedish. i can also manage in finnish and sign language.
i have had the, in my opinion, strange experience of having to explain shakespeare to an english speaking person which is seems a weird thing to have to do.
i've also dabbled in japanese, irish gaelic, welsh, yiddish, thai, chinese and some others. mostly for comparative linguistics purposes.

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picturebyclay In reply to mankoneko [2010-01-04 10:04:03 +0000 UTC]

I always knew Icelandic people are really special !!!!!!

You must be an interpreter to play with languages like you do !!!!

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mankoneko In reply to picturebyclay [2010-01-04 18:16:36 +0000 UTC]

heh heh heh...
no, i'm not an interpreter. not really a people person. i'm much more likely the one who spends two days in the library reading up on the history of the word "nincompoop" (my dad wrote a 50 page BA essay on the meaning of one word and i think it's awesome! ). i like learning new things and playing with language and researching and things, but i'm not much of a "public figure".

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