Well, this was a surprise! The ongoing score suggested it would do well, but I didn't think it would be Blue. This is actually the first time I've ever come first in any 'Free Study' competition - this does count I think.
I read with interest all of your comments and the 'in utero' or 'in vitro' comment was really interested as I had thought about this and how this was, after all, unnatural - the position may be womb-like but the barrel echos a Petri dish. I really enjoyed the commentary though.
Thanks for the votes - three on the front page, that's hasn't happened to me for a while!
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Beautiful form and processing. Although the posture looks awkward it still looks smooth and doesn't capture the same magic as the awkwardness of "horse" one of my all time favorites. But still lovely and should be a winner.
You remember the Horse image! For the Edward Weston challenge. Thanks for that.
i enjoyed this quite a bit. it reminds me of a miniature effects that you see in tilt shifts. that it looks like she is in a tin can, there is an element to the image that fits with the in vitro title - babies are small :)
Hi Paul - recognised this in thumbnail from the edit as much as the content. Is that the Voigtlander lens? Strong composition and concept . I personally feel there's just a little bit too much pale fill in the shadows, I'd have liked to see a little more depth of colour there, like the deeper green fill you used in the recent Night Guest photo. One of my top scores in this contest.
Somber and unusual, the image raises questions without answers. Seems like something we would find published on 1X, which often favors unique artistic concepts.
Nicely put together- there is a beauty in shapes that occur in nature and don't, and in the real human nature of female form-and when put in a position and posture of pre-birth, one cannot help but look back towards the question "what is the soul"- or ahead to the realization that truth, beauty- represent soul.
Beautiful form and processing. Although the posture looks awkward it still looks smooth and doesn't capture the same magic as the awkwardness of "horse" one of my all time favorites. But still lovely and should be a winner.
Magnificent!
The eye/mind connection is sometimes going in so many directions that the words come after a long time. At first, your images brought in my mind the Sicily coat of arms, Trinacria:
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Your image is actually "in utero" and its beautiful formality has something of the eternal mystery of man.
This is interesting, and arresting. The head-down-and-ass-up orientation really gives it most of what moderate power it has from a figurative point of view, but from the photographic craftsmanship point of view it's exceptionally good. Sublime, really. I don''t mean to damn the conceptual aspect with faint praise, because the womb allusion is indeed a legitimate one; shocking, erotic, confronting, sacrilegious, political – the field of dreams is spread wide open. It's just that it has been done a bit before in various media including using an actual human model, though happily not via Damien Hurst's formaldehyde treatment. But it has not in my recollection been done in two dimensions (especially with a camera), any better than this. Thank you.
The color, textures, and subject are beautiful. The subject is simple and carries a weighty metaphor -
I'm not a fan of the distant look and perfectly made-up face - but hey I'm picky.
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