heck, to me it seems very fleischmann-ish even though it's a portrait...

other than that,
/agree http://www.fstop.cz/e/rihosek/comments/to-fleischmann/080904-1018/

;)) right

great work, arthur.
it has this hard-to-see-what-makes-it-work quality to it, i always fall for that. :)

...unless you make that a deliberate goal in the series.

i guess teepee might be referring to the fact that the entanglement of those pipes looks a bit like a man's face, esp. when you squint a little.

i think the strong frontal "lighting" further amplified by the bright pavement is to blame... natural scenes are not usually so full of light.

i mean i might have a hard time telling whether the picture is a photo or a computer-generated image (if i didn't know and somebody asked me).

yeah, 6x7 is interesting, i never knew if i hated or loved it... probably both. :)

as for the scene - to me it feels a bit too much like a render, but if that's what you're after, good. it certainly fits with the previous posts. it's just that i tend to prefer "casual elegance."

i actually learned to _truly like_ the first one, too.
it's become part of "the fleischmann signature" or something...

lose the third. :)

it's going to be perfect.

yeah, never mind the "means" of the connection... as long as there is one.

to me these are very good scenes, both!

(i'd just like to see more care in processing... in particular RE line aliasing on the 1st image and shadow detail on the 2nd. i love it when this kind of stuff gets nursed to perfection.)

i undestand (and like) the first photograph. then you go even closer and i get lost.
perhaps there is some sort of connection as ondrej is suggesting, but i don't get it.

oh: are you paid for commenting on comments or what?

:)) right.

i like your approach, arthur.

as for the picture, i'll keep coming back and see how it turns out.

how fitting from somebody who can't even tell an author doesn't speak czech.

ses uz docela trapna, lucie.

very cool.

arthur, i don't see any problem with keeping things simple. :)

arthur, to me this is some very solid work, including those thoughts you've tried to put into words down here.

that said, i too have had other favorites in your ball-saal folio (all deleted now).

i tend to skip number one (iber). it's horrible :) but i kinda expected to see it having skimmed through what you currently have up on your personal site. it might very well be the most important one in the whole set, because it makes me think about how far you can stretch abstraction without violating visuals, as visuals, to me, always come before anything else when doing this kind of "seek & twist" on reality. so, though i have to admit i maybe even hate this particular frame, it's also true it serves as the most thought-provoking, at least in this actual setting.

the second one, koca, lacks consistency in terms of composition in the series, and personally i find the composition unfortunate if not arbitrary. other than that the photo is fine to me.

the rest, excluding etau (etau seems to me to be about something completely different than the rest of the set, and i don't like it), just flat out _works_ - and very much to my personal preferences. cheers!

btw, exai reminded me of an old amiga game, moonstone. don't ask why, i have no idea. :)