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By: Avi

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Photographer	Avi {Karma:70138}
Project	#42 Moody Landscape	Camera Model	-
Categories	Landscape Minimalist Photoart	Film Format
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Uploaded	6/4/2008	Film / Memory Type	-
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About	..Badlands you gotta live it every day Let the broken hearts stand As the price you’ve gotta pay We’ll keep pushin’ till it’s understood And these badlands start treating us good Courtesy: Bruce Springstein. (Thanks to Adam Schiavone for helping me with the texture)

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Avi

{K:70138} 6/28/2008

thanks Todd !!

Avi

{K:70138} 6/28/2008

thanks Magda !!

Todd Miller {K:16464} 6/28/2008

beautiful. love this composition and the tones. great work.

fokstrot . {K:6560} 6/28/2008

I love the mood here. Good one.

Avi

{K:70138} 6/19/2008

:):) .. thank YOU !

Adam Schiavone {K:1215} 6/19/2008

Oh yeah - THAT'S what I'm Talkin' 'bout...

That works so well in this shot. Bravo!

Nick Karagiaouroglou

{K:127263} 6/17/2008

Ehehehehhhhh, you will be... mwaahahahahaaaarrrgggh.. cough-cough, spit! ;-)

Well, I know why "I hate those theatrical appearances"! (Time Bandits.) ;-)

Cheers!

Nick

Avi

{K:70138} 6/16/2008

What a great event !!.. wish I could be there..

Nick Karagiaouroglou

{K:127263} 6/16/2008

He thanks me while *I* am the one to say thanks!

Well, I'll simply say, raise your glass with me and continue!!!!

Cheers!

Nick

P.S.: You know, the greek mind can get quite unorthodox in implementing ideas. Any my idea is, since a looong time, to raise my glass with all of you guys, some summer night in Kavala, at:

http://www.kavala-cosmopolis.com/en/index.html

When there is conception, there will be solution!

See ye!

Nick

Avi

{K:70138} 6/15/2008

Thanks for such a wonderful thought and feeling that you shared.

CHEEEERS !!!

Nick Karagiaouroglou

{K:127263} 6/14/2008

Of course you *have* to try more shots of this kind, Avi! Go for it! And for any other kind of shot you may conceive!

About Pan... and exactly the same goes for Avi too though in a different way: You people are the photographical incarnation of an old song by Dalaras:

I have an old Café
on the edge of the harbor
for those who stay
and wait.

Strange that I hear bouzouki sounds echoing through the air when I see you images of New York. ;-) But people like you, Avi, or Pan, or so many others, seem to have grasped what it's all about. I wish I had grasped that too.

Cheers!

Nick

Avi

{K:70138} 6/12/2008

ekta nongra ar jothesto textured wal-er chhobi alada tule ashol chhobitar opore new layer hishebe add kore tarpor opacity komiye dilam.

Nilanjan Mitra {K:12955} 6/12/2008

eta ki bhabe korli re ?? thik thak chobi..

Avi

{K:70138} 6/11/2008

Thanks Malules.. your minimalistic work is truly inspiring !

Malules Fernandez

{K:54810} 6/11/2008

Excellent work.

regards,
Malules

Avi

{K:70138} 6/11/2008

Thanks very much, Maja !!

Maja Š

{K:17951} 6/9/2008

me like it!!!

Avi

{K:70138} 6/8/2008

Then, I am going to try more of such shots, ey ?

About Pan's work, I had sensed that, but thanks for telling me that it IS actually so !!.. what a great artist he is !!

Cheers !!

Nick Karagiaouroglou

{K:127263} 6/8/2008

Thank you very very much for the detailed info about the making, Avi! Now, I really *have* to try that out too!

The landscape... well what is that? Only what we see extending in front of our eyes? This would negate impression as a combination of reality and some other "landscapes of mind". If I consider it also (but not only) as a landscape then exactly *because* it replays my own impressions when being out there. Some of the perhaps too focused, too partially concentrated impressions on some object like the branch here, while the background evolves to a canvas of the "inner landscape".

More than that, an abstract piece of expressionistic nature is technically easily accesible to the maker. (Actually a piece of cake!) But an *abstraction* of something real existing is the hard process of perceiving first its most reduced definition. Then we can have the "photoart" together with the real, and that's a fruitful marriage. Quite the contrary of what "some others" say, photoart is definitely not that kind of primitively etherial "visual pleasance". If we stay at that point, we could also wear some leather again and go shouting "uga, uga" through the forests. ;-) Abstraction is something else, which you successfully show here. Actually this seems to be also an element of your work that keeps returning now and then.

About your image that Pan has commented first, it's agaon one of this kind. It's technically very very good in its strictly pertial focus under strictly reduced amount of hues, and it is again an abstraction. Perhaps also an object turned to the material help for contemplation?

And about Pan... what can I say? To many it will remain unknown, but his work is one materialization of something deeply Greek. It carries all that vision, when we sit at the tavern and are able to marry the sunset with the mud, and let that marriage be. I think you did that too here, Avi!

If we don't need the superfluous "sensational look" in its so narrow meaning but at the same time keep the sense for balance, we discover something, don't we? ;-)

Cheers!

Nick

Noemi Jurado {K:8849} 6/8/2008

Really enjoy this dusky image Avi. It's kinda mysterious...the mid tones give the place a nice mood.

Avi

{K:70138} 6/7/2008

Thanks Nick for liking this work so much. It is, as I have categorized, my first real try at Photoart (pretty bad, as I have been told by some others.. lol)

But jokes apart, I sincerely felt a bit of an achievement with this image, which wasn't shared by anyone before you ! I also (not sure mistakenly or not) categorized it under 'landscapes'.. that, plus the name 'land' in the title I gave led a lot many people to pre-visualize it as a classic landscape shot - which, when they didn't see, clearly upset them. But my point always was, I never claimed this to be a classic landscape ! .. maybe I will take off that landscape category !!! ..
As for the technicalities, well, I photographed a really dirty wall texture separately, and then merged the original image with that one, as a layer, and then decreased the opacity to a suitable level where it feels like the texture was painted on to the background.

And as regards Pan.. whoa !!!.. may be YOU, of all people wouldn't be surprised if I told you that Pan Gianakis was my FIRST friend in Usefilm. He was the FIRST one to make the first comment on my first photograph uploaded here:

http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1102201

.. and it has never been the same again :)

He is a VERY VERY special friend !!

Cheers !!
Avi

Avi

{K:70138} 6/7/2008

thanks Shirley !! :)

Nick Karagiaouroglou

{K:127263} 6/7/2008

It's a collision of an object painted on thin air with a background painetd on some strange kind of canvas! Quite a strange image, Avi! Much more than "liking" the very distinct capturing of the "branch" as an object, I must abandon it for a moment and turn to that almost artificial background, which on a "reality" image doesn't even try to cheat me, and try to convince me "I am real!". It looks to me like saying: "I am painted onto a canves that stands some inches far back." It is then that I perceive the branch as an object intentionally put there, where it is, in front of its photographically artificial scene.

The dark lighting adds some naivity of the earlyyears of cinematography, when the picture was not merely given as pre-cooked food to the viewer, but was rather expected to be generated in mind by the help of the bakcground canvas - that at that times also didn't even try to negate its artificial nature.

I wouldn't change anything on this image of restricted but strong coloring, expept perhaps some more of the visible hills at the bottom. Only a little bit of that badlands.

Speaking about them, where are they? Are they somewhere at all? The term "Badlands" includes the component "bad", but but to whom? And why? A being like an inscet, or a snake, or anything else, might also consider them as "Goodlands". I think that Springsteen, in his typical attitude of down to earth tells that too: "And these badlands start treating us good."

On this image, I am more a part of the "badlands" than somebody that wishes to escape them, which thus turns the "badlands to "goodlands" for me. (Actually most of Greece is similar to that, so I know what I'm talking about - Nostalgia, you see! ;-))

BTW, how dis you managed to make that background?

Cheers, and thank you for my so well known badlands!

Nick

P.S.: It must have also its reasons why you remind me of Pan Gianakis here.

Elle Elle {K:10958} 6/7/2008

excellent Avi,
excellent,
best of luck, mahassa

Shirley D. Cross-Taylor

{K:174199} 6/7/2008

Love the spooky feeling here, dear Avi.:)

Avi

{K:70138} 6/6/2008

thanks Nessa... it's so great to see you back !!!
big hug,
Avi

vanessa shakesheff

{K:68840} 6/5/2008

Beautiful work ..love the muted colours and the silhouettes of the tree..nessa

Avi

{K:70138} 6/5/2008

Thanks dear Bixi !!
hugs,
Avi

biljana mitrovic {K:48110} 6/5/2008

Hey my friend this is outstanding and with perfect poem in BG:)
big hug
biljana

Captain Demu Potleg {K:1594} 6/5/2008

thik i bolcho ! but akash nil i hoy, shudhu texture atto jinish convey korche na.

Avi

{K:70138} 6/5/2008

Thanks my friend. You honour me !!

luis pereira

{K:26013} 6/5/2008

Excellent and it fits the poem so well or vice-versa. You've been posting great photography and I missed it.

Avi

{K:70138} 6/4/2008

Thanks Aniket.. appreciate the honest feedback. This is my first try.. will try to improve..

Paolo Corradini

{K:59552} 6/4/2008

excelelnt work really like it this blue and few elements

Avi

{K:70138} 6/4/2008

he he.. not bad, I like the idea :):)

Avi

{K:70138} 6/4/2008

america-y kaak nei :)

Aniket Chakrabarty {K:2730} 6/4/2008

Hmm bujhechi kichu ta kintu amar mone hoy joto ta convey korte cheyechile toto ta hoyni...kichu ekta missing kintu seta bujhte parchi na.....may be BG arekta object kichu thakle aro bhalo hoto. Janina besi baje boklam kina.

Francisco N-G {K:28728} 6/4/2008

Excellent work dear Avi, the muted tones and low-key are very effective setting up the mood of these "Bad Lands" :-)

Well done my friend!

F.

Gustavo Scheverin

{K:164501} 6/4/2008

Una muy buena composición. Tiene un toque de dramatismo muy impactante.
Felicitaciones!

ANANDA NIYOGI

{K:4486} 6/4/2008

Photoart. Eta ki nijer nijeke birthday gift ekta. khub bhalo hoyeche.

Hussam AL_ Khoder {K:79545} 6/4/2008

Nice colors and composition.

soumya {K:13087} 6/4/2008

composition bhaloi. aasole ei sab texturizatiuon amar otota mone dhore na.
dal tay ekta kak bosiye dite parle na?? ;-)

Avi

{K:70138} 6/4/2008

I am sure I cou;dn't have said it better. THANK YOU !!!

Cheers !
Avi

absynthius . {K:20748} 6/4/2008

well apart for an outstanding tonal range on the sky and a unqie sense for composition- what i find striking is the texture and that 'ghost' lines throughout the canvas.
it has the power to evoke feelings of some distant memory, of a vagued event- of some sort of displacement/ like imagination- and it comes quite too strong in that!!

thanks for the image Avi,
v.