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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Jan von Holleben's Dreams of Flying.

Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON, with thanks to David A. Johnson

Suzanne Revy said...: These are whimsical and imaginative without being cute. Hard to do when kids are involved. Thanks for the link. I always look forward to your "random excellence" posts.; 8:24 AM
David said...: The master of this form of staged photography is the Czech photographer Miro Svolik. http://www.czechslovakphotos.com/html/svolik.html; 8:42 AM
Ken Tanaka said...: This is some wonderful, imaginative work.

It's remarkable that the photographer remarks that he hardly every "photoshops" his work. In a June, 2006 interview he says that the high contrast and drippy saturations come exclusively from using "cheap" consumer color film..; 10:44 AM
Charlie Didrickson said...: Splendid work. I hope I am half that creative some day.

Inspired stuff.; 11:21 AM
Brambor said...: good stuff; 1:47 PM
JeffH said...: Very clever!; 2:08 PM
Joe said...: That is delightful and moving, thanks!; 7:49 PM
declan said...: I love it, I love it.; 8:14 AM
Little Photographer said...: thats so cute ..ur so talented i must say :); 4:50 AM
Markham said...: This is genius! Well done!; 9:25 PM
pemi said...: Really good photo; 4:20 AM