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Published: 2011-12-09 15:11:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 734; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 16
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Salvatore, Pablo's next-door neighbor, was a man with vast moustaches.---
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What is especially successful about this image is that it rewards coming back to it with subtle details.
The perception and presentation of the light in this photo is extraordinary. A background close to middle gray creates a sense of space allowing the highlights and shadows to balance perfectly. The whole image deals with balance - light and dark, symmetry vs. asymmetry, receding and advancing, etc.
There is drama in the initial perception that elements of the image are floating in space; there is tension in the 90ΒΊ rotated (dis)orientation of the picture, and in the process of resolving what the subject is 'in reality'.
What will keep me coming back to this image are the asymmetrical details; looking back and forth from right to left I want to compare and relate each element to the corresponding one across from it. (As I do that the whole thing seems about to rotate horizontally!)
The only things to criticize are:
1) I wish wasn't framed so tightly; but that may be a result of necessity.
2) The title detracts from the ethereal/surreal quality of the image.
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Hairspotting was not bad, but didn't have the right cultural resonance for this piece. 'Famous Moustaches of Catalunia No 1' is what I would have been tempted to call it.
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Titling is itself a fine art.
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There have been occasions on which it took longer to find a truly approrpriate title than it did to edit and submit the work. My titles are either plainly descriptive of the work, so that the images will turn up in gallery searches, and referential or 'fictional' titles designed to associate the work with some worthy piece of pre-existing culture. Of course, the Catalan people are more fiercely proud of being Catalan than they are of being Spanish!
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Thank you very much, Steven! 
About your critical remarks: yes, i agree, it might feel a bit too tight. I even considered cloning some additional space around the straws, just for a moment 
The initial title for this picture is actually the sentence in the comment. I was a bit afraid of it being too long for the title field, so i put it in the comment and titled the picture with what could rather be considered as... well, a "genre", or something
The sentence itself is a salute to the marvelous XX c. Spanish artists, of course -- one as a potential model and another as an inspiration of the style
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....and a face that Pablo might have drawn himself in a wild moment while taking time off from his work on Guernica!
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Thank you very much!
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