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Published: 2011-06-02 14:58:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 798; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 0
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A self-portrait in the mountain laurel leaves in our front yard. Edit by HananRelated deviation by Hanan:
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You are underwater and unalarmed.
Like a cat who's been in this spot since the first winter you remember.
You are X-rayed and X-cellent
Adorned and Adored
Boxed, yet bushy.
Happy smile guiles and whimsically whiskered.
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What a beautiful comment, Michelle, thanks
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I faved this long ago, but I never commented...Let me rectify that oversight:
This is a great portrait, Richard...I love the laurel framing your face, the glow around your beard, and the lightness of your eye(s). Hanan's editing finishes it off beautifully.
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Thanks very much, Yvette, it's great to have your comments. This was thoroughly collaborative, and I take it a little bit for granted now that it's possible, but when I stop to think about it - wow!
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Do you have it hanging on your wall?...
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It's never been printed - I never even thought of it!
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How did I miss this? A very classical portrait, with whimsey
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Thanks very much! Hanan wanted me to do a self portrait of some sort, I experimented with all kinds of things, and this one really worked.
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I love this image so much. I can't tell if you are slowly being buried or unearthed. Laurels create the tension by covering your eye.
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Thank you! This was a mix of an idea with some luck, and you're right, the covered eye is what really made it happen.
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hi Myrna! yes, an interesting mood created here.
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I find it hard to be peaceful in a self portrait, but you really managed to look extremely peaceful.
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Thanks, Jean-Daniel. I wasn't quite sure what I was doing, but I put everything out of my mind except looking into the lens and getting the shot, and it worked out well in this case.
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In a way, it reminds me some of "merge with nature" images, in a more peaceful way. With yours in mind, I might try a few more in the series.
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I just looked at that series, J-D, I really like it and I see what you mean about the similarity and the difference. It would be great to see more.
I had some luck with my shot too, a stretch of sunny, warm weather - it's been too rainy lately for any kind of shot inside the greenery!
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I heard you and made a few more this week-end, Richard.
Rain gives some very interesting lights, that is captured and reflected by leaves... but what a pain with the camera indeed!
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Ah, great, Jean-Daniel. I'm looking forward to seeing them
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Great shot, Richard. Most excellent. And superb editing; also the collaboration is wonderful.
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Thank you, Jim, from both of us. I really like the collab too - Hanan's been doing great things with paired self-portraits, and this one was amazing.
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Most very welcome, it worked out great.
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You look like Prospero in The Tempest! the wise, other-worldly gaze.
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Thanks! I was holding the camera and shooting myself, didn't know how it would work - the shot plus the edit is rather striking!
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Dr. Livingston, I presume ?
Saw this already in another most beautiful context today
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"Why yes, old chap, of course it is I, jolly good to see you"
Yes, isn't the di with Hanan great? One of the best ever!
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And not THAT far away in the look-alike contest 
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Yes - no doubt ! One of the best onces ever
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Thanks! Ordinary face, ordinary leaves but some drama was created.
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and please, more photo's from you ....
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Thanks, Hanne, much appreciated and I will do my best!
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'...A distant voice from the BBC World Service was describing something very strange - a face made out of leaves, a pagan carved image found in Christian cathedrals, a descendant of the horned god of the woods, the spirit of nature, lover of the Goddess.
And yet, perhaps strangest of all, was the feeling that, as the programme unfolded, I had the increasing sensation that this image - the Green Man - was not unfamiliar to me. It even seemed perfectly natural, as if I had always known about it...'
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Wow! Thanks for the wonderful link. Now that I think of it I have seen Green Man images, but was not consciously thinking of them when I shot this photo. An archetype.
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you are in good company, it would seem.
it's a wonderful photo.
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