Mmmm, pretty! I love the colours and the way these three are put together!

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told ya.. fotogenie!

simplicity makes it even more beautiful!

the colours are amazing

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I love that you kept them framed in their polaroid borders like that. Beautifully bold photos; it's what pulls these photos together as a series.

Thanks for the nice comment!

I love your stuff, looking forward to new work!

Anytime.

I've got a whole load of new stuff up today. Several more nature coming on the way.

I had meant to comment on this particular triptych of yours the first time I saw these, and my intention somehow got lost in other things, for which I apologize.

This really is a gorgeous, progressive piece - I like how you use colors and spaces as deceptively-inert characters. We see a change in our proximity to each subject as we view the Polaroids from left to right. The deep blue is majestic, endless, wide - something we appreciate from a distance. The red is fleshy, sensual - we draw closer to it. Finally, the green/yellow is healthy, new - we are at the source or origin. By shrinking our universe as we read this triptych across from left to right, maybe you hope to increase our awareness of just how profound the minutiae of existence is, how everything ends and begins again from the smallest details. Your macro-work is impressive (I shoot with a 680 SLR land camera myself, but your close-up camera works wonders with its magnification feature).

An excellent series all-around, and a fav.

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Thanks -- a lot. Not only for the fav, but especially for the in-depth comment. I value those a lot! I am glad you are able to read my thoughts behind the photograph. I was inspired by the works of Barnett Newman, I am not a religious man and I did not intend my photography to be as serious [don't get me wrong - I love Newman's work], so I decided to play around with a simplistic use of colors to try and get across emotions and meaning (allbeit much less loaded than Newman's work, of course!).

It was my first try at "macro" work (the rose and the leafs are probably about 1:2 or so, technically not macro I guess ), I did not use a special camera or macro feature, I shoved a magnifying glass in front of the polaroid lens. It was a lot of fun to do, especially because of the almost-instant feedback. After hanging in a really clumsy position, trying to hold a camera and a magnifying glass steady, keeping both camera and glass still and centered at the subject, trying to get the sharpness depth of field right (as it's extremely limited), it was a real pleasure seeing these images appear.

I am very glad you like them. Thanks once again for the thorough feedback!