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TOAD!!
I think this is in all ways outstanding. So many points of balance and intertwined stories plus enough room for the viewer to create their own scape with the blocks you've provided. Those who "break" technical rules, make such a stronger, earthier and honest statement than those who don't even apperntice themselves to the rules in the first place. If I were viewing this "blind", I'd also guess rightly or wrongly that such a radical departure from the author's norm would suggest a deep anger and frustration about many deep things. Which renders even more powerful such a piece of work. Man...that slow shutter..just on the edge of capture and reason, hyper-real and surreal in its "most real" sense.
Superlative, and setting a showcase benchmark, in my humble.
If this was in anyway a swansong, it hasn't worked...we want more!

I didn't know how to start my comment.... Now reading Zig's I feel even more clumsy with my review... But here it goes anyway...

First view and general idea....

I see a background full of light and movement. There are many personajes some of them expressing but some of them empty. I make a relation of those empty figures with the death represented at the right...

Coming again, second look....

The title suggest to me a lot of meanings, and I can see a lot of them represented in your work. I would be interested in knowing why you took "Momentito" for the title of your scene. It sounds to me so familiar...

We use mainly diminutives not to be so hard, but sometimes when you think about the right meaning, the term turns very sweet, there is no a small moment, or big moment, but a moment is a moment... The funny thing is that you don't realize or understand the real meaning until you learn another language or live in another country.

Third look at this one ...
You made me sit and explore you picture, thinking I want to find the story....

At the beginning I thought that the personajes in the foreground are the story, but as I go looking at details, I see a lot more people very important as well, some full of live and others empty, soulless. I could write pages finding stories here..! I got it, I thought....

Beautiful fantasy that develops in all directions you see, I like it... At the end I didn't find the story, but you gave me a lesson how to appreciate and understand art.

I am leaving my comment as I was discovering, because your picture is not something I could "absorb" at just one look. Thanks a lot for sharing your Art Toad...

Agree totally with Zig, We want to see more!!

PS... I am missing your Christmas icon, btw.

Strange but compelling.

Thank you dear friends - I am overwhelmed by your responses.

I wish that I could say the title reflected some deep thought pattern - but it was one of those times where I just looked at it and named it - without any thought process at all.

Once again, thank you for your words. I am humbled by getting such praise from such talented people.

A very interesting image - and knowing your abilities, I'm wondering about composites and layering. There's certainly a lot going on and a lot to look at in depth.

The title is interesting - and better than your earlier choice.

Thanks Matt - my titles are always working titles - even after they are posted. There are no composites or layers in this one - not that I would be adverse to that - just not required this time.

The situation there was bizarre. It was very. very dark and people were moving fast - I was in a crowd. I assumed that this shot hadn't worked , but sometimes you get lucky. I'm probably as happy with this shot as anything I have done for a while.

I also thought that it was a work with layers Toad. If it is not, it makes it even more interesting!

If it was layers-flattened composite I would have spat.:mad:
:/

Zig Wrote:If it was layers-flattened composite I would have spat

Not this time, Zig. Thx for the vote of confidence - thousands would have assumed it was content-modified - especially when they see my signature on it...

Zig Wrote:If it was layers-flattened composite I would have spat.:mad:
:/

I was thinking of these images, just with more amphetamine:

Toad Wrote:http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images...Battle.jpg

http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=8249

Toad Wrote:http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images...Uptown.jpg

http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5385

Yeah - I hear you, Matt. Those big composites are some of the things that I am most proud of, and so I am encouraged to pluck some things out of the real world that bring my composites to mind...