Ladies and Gentlemen:

Here are some images from my weekend walk last Sunday.

I saw some of you posting photos and I couldn't help doing it too. Comments welcome, of course. Excercise critique and have fun !

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), September 10, 2001

Answers

Ivan,

Here is my opinion for what it is worth! I think you have a good aesthetic: for shape and space, but I would like to see somehow more of a feeling of involvement in these spaces [a wider lense used perhaps?]. The quiet and tranquility of the man made concrete spaces is captured but I need to feel more like I am there/involved.

-- Richard (richard@designblue.co.uk), September 11, 2001.

Iván

Due to time zones I seem to be in one of the pole positions to thank you for "coming out" on this forum. I always appreciate your comments and your pictures add a face to them!

The quality of your architectural compositions has made me snoop around your photo.net folders and open more than just one window on your work. I'm glad I did, as a I could see a whole development unfolding (no pun intended). I very much appreciate the different terrains you are exploring and without knowing exactly where you started out, I can sense a development from occasional family portraits to more dedicated and sophisticated aesthetical research. Forgive my baldness, but in a way it is like witnessing you stepping out into a different sort of self-esteem! Your most recent folder clearly states and proves "I'm a photographer. I see what others don't. And I master my tools." Congratulations!

Among these most recent shots I personally prefer the church in the evening light. It has the most mood for me. Very nice composition and tonal range, too. Compared to your earlier folders you obviously have become more experienced and demanding, even as far as exposure and print quality are concerned.

(Please allow me to add a few words here in response to a kind remark you made recently. I do not feel "ahead" of anyone else, not in the slightest sense. We all have our very personal goals, likings, standards, tastes, whatever. And they are changing, too - at least that is what I am experiencing myself. We have different accounts of experience, both aesthetically and technically. Especially those of us who have been (or still are) working professionally with photographical tools have more practice than others. But that doesn't mean that they are closer to the *individual* views and aims of anybody else. Your images are a mirror of yourself. Eventually they offer a lot of insight to others, communicate through inspiration as they match shared interest or predisposition. But only you can know about any constraints, if and what *you* are holding back or didn't achieve.
< BR> I don't want to explore this terrain here any further as this is not the purpose of your thread. And maybe I'm even contradicting myself, when I say now that critique is such an invaluable instrument. If we use it for redefining and reinforcing what we are *personally* striving for. Well, in the end it all seems to boil down to communication - be it thru pictures or words (one of the former weighing in more than a thousand of the latter - and still asking for at least as many of them in order to be grasped...;o)

Cheers

-- Lutz Konermann (lutz@konermann.net), September 11, 2001.

Ivan,

You should really post links to your other portfolios, I am obviously not as nosy as Lutz, but he is right there is much more to your sense of space, quiet and tranquility that I get from looking at some of your other images in combination. I am actually quite inspired by your work.

-- Richard (richard@designblue.co.uk), September 11, 2001.

Nice photos, very nice...I'm usually impressed by the quality of photos posted by this site's contributors.

-- Douglas Kinnear (douglas.kinnear@colostate.edu), September 11, 2001.