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This picture is just crate!!! Love it! ---Pun intended!
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it really looks you have to handle her.. I mean "it" with care.
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I hardly recognised her! This is a great shot, nice original piece.
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Feels like a kitten needing a home here. I'm sure I could find room.
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Lovely juxtaposition of colours and tones. Very nice composition too..
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oh yes handel with care.....nice work!
lg Daniel
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Hi Francois,
I've had a good think about this image now, and I retract my earlier comment saying it was a "humorous" image (on "the other site"). 
The look of displeasure on Stephie's face really says it all. Now, I see this image as being a metaphor for the way beautiful models are manipulated and exploited by the Media simply as a means to create revenue - thus turning "people" into "commodities". This changes everything. It is common knowledge that "sex sells", but at what personal cost to the model?
I have to admit that I do enjoy looking at Stephie's body; but for me, it is more "an appreciation of beauty in itself", rather than basic "eroticism". Firstly, I can fully appreciate the work Stephie has put into getting her body into such a magnificent state of fitness. It is clear to me that she "trains" on a regular basis. Secondly, this shows great dedication and a healthy outlook to life in general.
The main factor however, is that I view your images as "Artistic Compositions", where the interplay between lighting, colour and tone, textures, and inventive poses, go beyond the limited realms of "the erotic" into something which encapsulates Beauty. I now see this image with different eyes.
As you have already told me, you do not do this to make money (and say "..you are not a Professional") but the stunning images you produce are of a highly Professional standard. I think you create such images simply "for the love of your Art" alone, which deserves the utmost respect.
Perhaps I assume too much.
Yan
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Hi Yan,
An art creation is never at 100% the responsability of the author, or in this case, the author and his model. It is largely the cration of the spectator, especially when the author is not a "conceptual artist" and leaves to the viewer the task to really WATCH and feel.
I have done this picture on an impulse, vaguely feeling that something was to be gained from putting together Stephie and that box. To me, it was the ever present quest of the "rupture", something graphic or intellectual (or hopefully both), that would foster EMOTIONS because they contradict themselves (I just love oxymorons and look for them everywhere). YOU, dear user of my fantasies, have given a meaning to this. And you have done a darn good job at that, telling ME something I could have seen abut hadn't. Because of that, you are as much the artist as I am.
That theme that a work of art is a semi-finished product untill the viewer completes it, is something I had already done once with Steph (the familiar name I give to Stephie). Visible here : [link] . It clearly says that the color of the painting are put there by the viewer eyes, not by the artist.
Thank you for your time and for the way you look at my work. Hope I will never disapoint you, but likely will....
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Ahh - I think you flatter me too much Francois! 
This is indeed new and inspiring territory. Superb!
Yan
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Hmm but after a little consideration, girl won't be so good visible in this box 
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yeah i agree with it would look better with a stronger lighting on her
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C'est bizarre moi je ne vois pas du tout le handle with care, c'est plus une image de l'humain produit que l'on fabrique en grande série pour son plus grand désespoir, il est né et grandi dans sa boîte en plastique et ne veut rien connaître du monde extérieur, il attend que l'usine le nourrisse.
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Pour moi, c'est le symbole des efforts qui sont fait pour nos réduire a une "norme" et la résistance que nous y opposons
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Ouais ça rejoint un peu ce que je voyais
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Si tu en as le courage, va voir le commentaire qu'en a fait Fjorjan. je trouve cela extrêmement pertinent (unqiuement la partie ou il donne sa vision du sens de cette photo; Le reste n'engage que lui)
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Oui intéressant, très bon commentaire
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heheh that's funny.. makes me think about a calendar of a company for plastic products
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Very well done!
Nice use of the selective desaturation; very impressive photo.
Incidentally, you may consider this for the "emotive portrait" category, rather than misc. Just a thought.
Regards,
Richard Rasner
Nakayama Studios
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I did consider. But then, I thought that this dpeicted as much of a situation as of an emotion....Thanks for stopping by
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très belle photo! mais quelle hazzard , j'ai aussi une photo qui s'apelle comme cela posté en 2005 [link]
Felicitation pour la photos!
Amellya
xxx
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Merci Amellya. Même titre, mais vraiment pas la même image
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Hmm, interesting. I like the concept and posing, though I might like it better with a bit stronger light. The yellow box seems very bright against the model's skin. It almost looks like the box was colored separately or that her coloring was desaturated.
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It is exactly what I did. I wanted to downplay the girl...
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