-- carlo folli (c.folli@rsadvnet.it), December 24, 1998

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-- Carlo Folli (c.folli@rsadvnet.it), December 24, 1998.

-- Carlo Folli (c.folli@rsadvnet.it), December 24, 1998.

-- the dummy (c.folli@rsadvnet.it), December 24, 1998.

This is very different from the usual nature shot and I'm not sure how to respond. Since everything is blurry, I have to wonder if the effect is intentional, but maybe it is. I think I would like it better with a sharp background and only blurred butterflies, then I would know that the movement of the butterflies is what you intend me to look at and I wouldn't feel like it might just be a mistake.

There seems to be quite a lot of blur due to camera motion like some avant-garde street photographer might use to suggest his/her own movement or the vibration of the earth in a quake, but that seems out of place in a nature image that does not refer specifically to a wind storm or earthquake or other natural source of camera movement.

I guess being puzzled by the proper context of a nature image just leaves me baffled; I have no cues to use for understanding the image.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), December 25, 1998.

Tank you, Frank, for your interesting opinion. The question is: my photo is a nature image or my spirit image? Nothing in focus, all blurring, no light control... but I love this image: two spirits flying away... By naturalist point of view these are two papilio machaon fightin for territorial control - that's non very poetic - but in my heart I feel something very near to my deep sensibility. The shot, however, is not casual: it is the resul of an etire summer afternoon with my Canon A1 w/winder, Av priority, Vivitar 500/8 reflex 'macro', Sensia II 100.

-- Carlo Folli (c.folli@rsadvnet.it), December 25, 1998.

Carlo,

Truly a photo not of the usual nature type. But an image that is emotional in concept, closer to an impressionistic painting in the way it would use tones and strokes of the brush to convey an artistic conceptualization. It's nice that the same medium can work in so many ways (the Red Tulip and the Arizonia Hummingbird and fine examples, all natural but much different images).

Makes it fun Ben

-- Ben Lanterman (benl@anet-stl.com), December 27, 1998.