The Flickr Blueribbonbeauty Image Generatr

Found this pretty pic of my sweet Persian cat Tanja, that I wanted
to share with you. I miss her so much, she was a gentle beauty.
Best viewed large. Happy Friday my friends =)

Concept: Man came to present the Death of God, but that wasn't enough, was it (oh, you wish)? Man itself chose to evict his own superiority further and learnt to subjugate to the control of metaphisics totally: killing himself and his affirmative power (and not knowing he made no steps at all).

Background: I was working on this old image of mine (shot last year in december) and trying to recreate a control technique, death penalty punishment, of the not-so-old Modern times when I realized that by adding an element of metaphisics (in the last instance Morals (or language)) would explicate what really matters: weakness of humanity.

Manipulation info: Old shot layered in itself, slightly cloned, "roughed" with textures and conceptualized with silhouettes of those little, well, you know what.

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Concept: The history of Man is not only a history of Violence. It is a history of constant ongoing everyday Violence.

Conceptual background: This thought came up after years of reading "those little German philosophers" of ours.

Strobist info: Nada. The shot is an overlay of two differently processed images, the upper portion emphasizing the sky, the lower the grass colors. Obviously the "family scene" was an essential addition made with brushes;)

I was told from my "assistant" here that the central part isn't obvious at all, therefore: please, LOOK CLOSER;)

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Concept: A relationship's contribution to social order (community balance) is reciprocal aletheia (i.e. unhiddeness), so they say. Having an backdoor for opening thoughts is undetrimental for our "being social". But what if this "continous revelation" (guilt-cleansing) skips turns? Have you ever mirrored your personal lack of "confession" into the public sphere?

Background: I've chosen this photo to carry the concept because the girl expresses, in my opinion, a sense of seriousness and hidden thoughts.

Strobist info: Used two Speedlites in front (left main, right fill) and our companion Sun standing on the left. Ambient light was kept at bay with -1EV. Triggered with Canon wireless and E-TTL ratio 1:3.

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Concept: An utopic (creatively) citation goes as follows: "Fear is always present, but accepting it makes you stronger." True, just don't let your consciousness lose rationality. Senses are oh-so-dangerous, you Platonic child.

Strobist info: Two Speedlites triggered into umbrellas, both from the front side, one left, one right (upper). Can't remember the ratios, but it doesn't really matter, since the lightning conf was severely "damaged" in PS.

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Concept: Parallel dimensions of the same ego, slight variations in mood.

Strobist info: A right positioned Speedlite in umbrella triggered with E-TTL wireless, +FEC. The right image is a mirrored version.

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Concept: A detrimental emotion opposite to action fundamentally, but so prosperously warm.

Strobist: Same as previous, but the right strobe didn't trigger. A bottom right bare Speedlite at 1/8 power about a meter away triggered by Canon wireless.

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Concept: Surprises are deviations from personality's images, errors in expectations. Or momentary lapses. But at the end always a time phenomenon slave to the "thickness" or our ego.

Strobist info: Two Speedlites on the bottom left and right (front), 1/8 power (50mm zoom), triggered by the ST-E2.

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dear friends, thank you very much for your visits during my absence! i will try to catch up with comments.
the conference I attended was in Pécs - it is a very beautiful old Hungarian city. this is the fountain in the centre. for some reason i had almost mystical feeling about it