Awww...very cute, but a little creepy that the baby is all alone in such a barren room...

anyways nice photo!

the creepy thing makes the picture interesting, actually

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yeah thats sort of what i meant...

glad you like it !

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just..beautiful..

merci !

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i really like it idea-wise, yet the picture itself somehow doesn't work for me - can't even point out why.
sorry for being so constructive

well then if you like the idea but not the picture, send this comment to philip lorca dicorcia : D

Come on, focus, and give me the reasons for not liking it, i know you have some. And they better be good because it's one of my favorite picture ever !

Btw how did the french test go ??

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ok, so, i'm trying to focus now.
my mechanics don't work that good though, i'm afraid, and the bokeh i produce tends to look really shitty
now, about the picture.
for me it has recently been like this: i looked at a picture, for a longer or shorter time, depending on whether i feel like looking at it for long or not, it's a spontaneous thing, a gut thing, i don't control it.
with your picture, what i did was look at it for a pretty long time, here in the pc lab. like 3 minutes or something.
so, then, after looking at it, a million associations and connections come up in my mind.
autrefois (missing the english word), i would let myself be carried away by those associations, kept on thinking about them for ages and in the end always thought for a long time about every picture i saw. which is also why i thought that i liked almost every picture i saw.
then, some time ago, i haf the feeling of having figured out that what i was really thinking about were my own associations rather than the picture itself - masturbation, you know.
so, what i have been trying to do recently was trying to suppress all the intellectual-rational shit and just look at a picture and listen , but really LISTEN, to what is happening in me.
does it touch me?
does it make a cord vibrate, does it not?

i found that your picture didn't.
i could come up with what i think are the reasons for that now, composition-stuff and all - but that's really not my natural line of thinking here.
it'd be making something up just to suit your wishes.
in fact, i can't tell what it is that makes the picture not touch me.
it's like looking at a person in some ways-
like, take a beautiful girl.
you look at her.
you see she is beautiful.
that happens like a thousand times a day.
still, you don't fall in love a thousand times a day (at least i don't).
so, obviously, some beautiful girls have a special something that others don't have.
when looking at a beautiful girl that doesn't have it, you will never be able to tell what exactly it is that she is lacking.
(sure, you could make something up, like, yeah, if her breasts were a bit larger/smaller/whatever then i'd probably like her - but it's not really true.)
it's just that something is missing - it doesn't get more concrete than that.

with your picture, i guess that what i would be making up is that i think that the baby is too small in the picture and that the crop is too tight, that maybe it would have been better with more space - but then again, i don't know what the rest of the picture looks like, i don't know what it'd look like if it weren't cropped. (so it's really all speculation, and i somehow feel it'S pointless peculation, too.)
like, i'm sure you made what you thought was the best decision, actually, i think you might even have made the best possbile decision. still the outcome doesn't touch me.
too bad, but i can't do anything about it. i don't think i know better what you ought to do with your pictures than you do.

apart from all that, after you left i had the feeling that you impressed me a lot, as a photographer.
i feel seeing you take pictures inspired me. well, let's try to cut out the cheesy shit.

it made me more confidient when shooting people in the metro. which i do a lot at the moment. which i like a lot.
merci.

man, merci for taking so much time to answer.

What are you doing for NYE ? I thought of spending it in berlin, or maybe you could come to paris ?

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