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wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
edited June 8, 2008 in Other Cool Shots
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The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we'd ground it sharp and hadn't known,
And now were only wasting precious blade.
And when he raised it dripping once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
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~The Grindstone, Robert Frost
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    jpljpl Registered Users Posts: 96 Big grins
    edited June 6, 2008
    I find this picture really creepy. I guess that is what you are going for. The eyes were removed in PP right?

    I recently read a book on how the brain works and how our eyes are drawn to abnormal things espicially on faces. When looking at this picture, I find I cannot really see the whole picture. My eyes keep going back to the eyeless faces. The shot definitely has an impact, but it is a negative impact (which again is probably what you are going for). Why is that sheep staring at me? Can he stare without eyes!? Stop staring at me sheep!!!!
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    wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2008
    jpl wrote:
    I find this picture really creepy. I guess that is what you are going for. The eyes were removed in PP right?

    I recently read a book on how the brain works and how our eyes are drawn to abnormal things espicially on faces. When looking at this picture, I find I cannot really see the whole picture. My eyes keep going back to the eyeless faces. The shot definitely has an impact, but it is a negative impact (which again is probably what you are going for). Why is that sheep staring at me? Can he stare without eyes!? Stop staring at me sheep!!!!

    I'm definately going for a negative, or more accurately, a disturbing feel. I like ~some~ photos that show that things aren't always as we see them, and occasionally we slip into a dream state.

    Desert Native American cultural studies into the use of the dream state (not hallucinatory) are my primary influence, but I've been ignited by the following artists (among many other surrealist and impressionist photographers and painters).

    Simen Johan
    Evidence of Things Unseen

    Ruud van Emple
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    Doing the odd and awry in greyscale is a great break for me from my usual.

    Thank you. More than happy to kind of creep you out. :)
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    eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2008
    This is a scene from an episode of the original Twilight Zone, right? :D

    Great shot, wf! Creeped me out, too!
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    DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited June 7, 2008
    Ok.... now your just starting to creep me out. mwink.gif
    You take your meds today? ne_nau.gif Should we worry? headscratch.gif
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    wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited June 7, 2008
    eL eSs Vee wrote:
    This is a scene from an episode of the original Twilight Zone, right? :D

    Great shot, wf! Creeped me out, too!

    Thanks. Have some more in the pipe- er,... dark tunnel, as I type.
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    wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited June 7, 2008
    DaddyO wrote:
    Ok.... now your just starting to creep me out. mwink.gif
    You take your meds today? ne_nau.gif Should we worry? headscratch.gif

    Thank you, and be afraid.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Major grins Bournemouth, UKPosts: 0 Major grins
    edited June 7, 2008
    I must admit I never noticed until I read JPL post then and went back and looked and thought oh...........

    The look is certainly in the mind of the photographer, certainly looks a little creepy

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    wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited June 7, 2008
    draggin wrote:
    I must admit I never noticed until I read JPL post then and went back and looked and thought oh...........

    The look is certainly in the mind of the photographer, certainly looks a little creepy

    Tim

    Some see it immediately- I like the sublety, sort of a payoff. One more post and I ~may~ have this recent phase out of my system.

    Thanks for commenting.
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    crashmastercrashmaster Registered Users Posts: 37 Big grins
    edited June 7, 2008
    Actually a brilliant concept well illustrated, and yes a little disturbing, but very cool.:D
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    DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2008
    crashmaster wrote:
    Actually a brilliant concept well illustrated, and yes a little disturbing, but very cool.:D

    It's settled then.... you go first. Yes, ... we will wait for you...
    Or what ever comes out. Please wake me then as I am turning in just now.
    No rush.
    Michael
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    crashmastercrashmaster Registered Users Posts: 37 Big grins
    edited June 8, 2008
    rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif:D
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    wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2008
    crashmaster wrote:
    Actually a brilliant concept well illustrated, and yes a little disturbing, but very cool.:D

    Thank you. I like doing things that effect people in ways other than, "how cute, how pretty, how beautiful, how wonderful, etc." ~A little disturbing is great!
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    wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2008
    DaddyO wrote:
    It's settled then.... you go first. Yes, ... we will wait for you...
    Or what ever comes out. Please wake me then as I am turning in just now.
    No rush.

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    Anybody can do it.
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