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Flaming rain

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Jo Zamudio (inactive) 4 months ago

Beautiful. Happy V-Day, David.

Danilo Hernández Zenteno 5 months ago

looks like an oil painting, awesome

Gilbert Claes 5 months ago

Yes....

gatorki (solely) about 1 year ago

good

Ekaterina Elizarova about 1 year ago

Genial idea

carolina madruga about 1 year ago

I've already told you how much I enjoy and like and love this image. But now, seeing it for the Nth time... I've just seen something new... now I see that the trunk of that tree is a woman. Hm. Weird but soooooo coool.

David Goold about 1 year ago

Oh gosh! I see the statuesque woman too, Carolina. A very shapely figure indeed. I have another tree shot where people can see a crooked old woman :o/ Thank you!

carolina madruga 11 months ago

Ñeh! I didn't see your comment! Nice to know I'm not the only one seeing the trunkwoman. It's always good to know that i'm not crazy.

I'm still amazed by this shot... and I still don't know how you make this images, really.

In the half-light (inactive) about 1 year ago

DROOOOOOOL...

Hey, I read your goodbye on Flickr. Very intelligent and touching. So glad you are still on 500 : ))

This is amaing. I have no idea how you do this and I am totally jealous... LOL

David Goold about 1 year ago

Thank you! I've missed mopping up your drool sooo much :o) This is a nice and inspiring place, for sure. No need to be jealous... just fall flat on your face and hit the shutter button as you go down :o)

Onelia Peña Gálvez (inactive) about 1 year ago

Hi David,

Well - I'm going to have to let you out of detention for that beautiful explanation! LOL! I should have known that there would be more than one metaphor in your imagery....your work is always so profound and so well thought out - an intellectual artist who produces inspirational work. Im always looking forward to seeing your work - you have a real signature to your use of colour and the way you use it to capture the mood of an image.....and as I review this image again (now that I know the genesis of the title and the shaking of the tree metaphor) it communicates even more to me on second viewing.

As I said before David, this is great work.

Fond regards,
Onelia.

Abhijeet Ghosh about 1 year ago

nice abstract !

milena seita about 1 year ago

beautiful...

Anita Demidova about 1 year ago

Looks like painting! Very beautiful!

Juha Ahvenharju about 1 year ago

Il ike

Gilbert Claes about 1 year ago

Art...
Like it.
The same effect as some of my pictures.

Todd Wall about 1 year ago

Nice concept. Very interesting.

Vladimir Perfanov about 1 year ago

Great fine art!

Onelia Peña Gálvez (inactive) about 1 year ago

Hello my dear David,

I am afraid you have some explaining to do here my friend. Everytime I see your work I feel a great connection to it.
I believe it is the colours that drive this feeling, that is your ability to use light and colour to evoke emotions. I have to say that your message got through loud and clear with this shot.

Here I am relaxing for a few minutes and admiring this miraculous image. To start with this is a very beautiful and simple composition, secondly the colour enhanced by the lighting really gives life to the image. And then the treatment of the movement does indeed look like flames but for me the impression is one of heat rising rather than falling rain...but the magic of true art is that it means different things to different people.

So, as I said, I need an explanation.....I want to switch the DVD to watch 'the making of' LOL! Did you go out with this end result in mind or were you experimenting with things when you got back and liked this the best? As always, you've left me wanting more!

Great work my friend! True art!

Fondest regards,
Onelia.

David Goold about 1 year ago

Uh-oh, I feel like I'm in trouble with Teacher! Ok... the title. It was suggested by my friend Laura - although Italian, I think she knows far too much about cursing in English. So 'flaming' is a pun - to curse the heavy rain that was actually falling that day and also a colour reference. Hmmm... please take it up with Laura - I'm too scared (she's actually a Professor and I'm already in trouble with Teacher!). But seriously, thank you so much for your critique and I'm glad you like. There was also a bit of symbolism involved - as my last upload on Flickr, I was shaking the metaphorical tree. I was amazed when Hendrik saw this - he's a smart guy. No, I did not really plan this one - but I did spend a lot of time at the location though, trying various things (I got very, very wet). As usual, I take my 'sketches' home and work on them, as I find that my ICM shots look at bit 'flat' straight out of camera - not much processing on this particular one though: a bit of selective lightening here; a bit of contrast boost there; and a good kick in the pants for saturation everywhere. Please Miss, have I avoided detention? :O)