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Paris...Place de la Concorde


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Phil Douglis27-Sep-2003 04:59
Bailey -- you break the rules and come up with another winner. This picture is not sharp. You allow the shadow of the photographer to dominate the center of the picture. You cut the picture in half with the horizon. All no-no's in photography, right? Wrong. Art knows no rules. This image is an artist's vision of Paris, not your tourist snapshot. Once again, you turn surrealist and dwell on ghosts here. The distant figures and a bus go about their business, as your own mysterious shadow looms over the railing at bottom of the picture, and clouds explode from the historic buildings that seem to be vibrating in the background. You should have called this picture a dreamscape, because that's what it is. Perhaps you are commenting on this place itself -- heads once rolled on this spot 300 years ago.