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01/25/2017 02:40:35 AM |
That this didn't make the top 20, let alone the front page, is more disturbing to me than what this image conjures in my mind. You deserved so much better with this, though I suspect the jury will vindicate your selection. When I was voting my wife caught a glimpse of it and asked, "Who took that, one of your friends? That's amazing." Something to be proud of. I'm actually somewhat ashamed that I somehow placed ahead of this.
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01/24/2017 06:15:19 PM |
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01/24/2017 06:07:09 PM |
| I like how confrontational and disturbing this is. A little girl becomes a god... aloof, scary, utterly confident. |
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01/24/2017 06:02:23 PM |
| Beguiling and eccentric portrait. Well done. |
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01/24/2017 06:01:02 PM |
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01/24/2017 04:26:50 PM |
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01/24/2017 01:59:11 PM |
| The different earrings and the eyes really make this photo. I love it. The crop is slightly too tight in my opinion. |
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01/24/2017 12:17:40 PM |
that wink casting indecision along with the earnest lips is plain beautiful.
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01/24/2017 06:40:40 AM |
| The one eye, the too-close composition, the imperfect skin. A marvel of photographic choices. |
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01/24/2017 03:30:41 AM |
| wonderfully put together. |
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01/23/2017 05:16:04 PM |
| Strikingly introspective and gritty yet ageless portrait. |
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01/23/2017 04:45:40 PM |
| Individuality... good traits... well pictured. I really like this. |
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01/22/2017 09:16:57 AM |
| This extreme close up with the closed eye is mesmerizing. One of my favorites in the challenge. |
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01/22/2017 07:55:59 AM |
| Powerful from the moment I saw it. The mismatched earrings complete the dichotomy of serenity (ignorance?) and enlightened consciousness. Top of the heap for me. |
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01/22/2017 07:31:36 AM |
| possibly i would have added textures and reduced the sharpness. but i love the image. very face on! great work. |
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01/21/2017 11:43:52 AM |
This image is fascinating. Somehow in the same way as some of Sally Mann's photographs - at the limit of comfort.
I stared so much at it and that my head spins.
In layman's term, yes, it's a 10
But I have tens of questions. This is art
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01/21/2017 11:25:01 AM |
| Disturbing, haunting, mysterious feeling, with ambiguity supporting any number of interpretations yet leaving our questions unanswered. One eye closed, mismatched earrings, skin imperfections, close up perspective - all contribute to a sense of somehow intensified reality. |
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01/21/2017 05:31:27 AM |
| I'm just reflecting on how much more interesting this is for having the one eye closed (but not a wink), versus having both eyes open. That doesn't seem quite fair does it? That eye-closed is interesting and provoking, and definitely art, while eye-open in the otherwise identical picture would be nothing much to seize the attention, and merely a bold photograph. So does that difference illustrate the difference between art and not art? I say it does. Because the point of art ΓΆ€“ or at least one point of art ΓΆ€“ is to do the expected in an unexpected way. And you have done that. It engages and provokes, it crackles with invisible lines of force; it transcends by a country mile all the tacky faux-McCurry exotic veils and so forth. I assume that you asked her to close one eye, and yet I am entirely ready to believe that you didn't; that she simply requires one eye closed the better to see you with, my dear. Thank you. |
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01/20/2017 06:42:00 PM |
| what a fabulous face! It is a brilliant portrait...looks very Celtic to me. |
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01/20/2017 06:16:46 PM |
| pretty inscutable expression |
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01/20/2017 06:27:19 AM |
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01/19/2017 02:12:05 PM |
| Excellent portrait! Really refreshing to see work like this. Congratulations. |
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