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Daniel Aurelian Mirotoi 2 weeks ago

wow, excellent point of view in this series, i like it allot it s very inspiring, Clyde !

Clyde Beamer Thank you Daniel!

Antonino Bellia 2 weeks ago

Great Series! I love this mood...

Clyde Beamer Thank you sir!! Glad you like it.

Teuku Rizal 1 month ago

this is a wonderful BW landscape image.
was this taken with LX5 too?

Clyde Beamer Thank you, no none in this series was w/ the LX5. I you scroll to the very bottom of this page you will find an explanation of the gear used.

Teuku Rizal thank you for the explanation :)

suliman almawash 3 months ago

Beautiful series ... great work Clyde

Clyde Beamer Thank you very much!

Mieke Suharini 3 months ago

WoW.. all of these pictures have the strong mood!

Clyde Beamer Thank you Mieke!

Pietrino Di Sebastiano 3 months ago

Great series, Clyde !!!!

Clyde Beamer Thank you sooo much!!

Rui Palha 3 months ago

Wonderful.

Clyde Beamer Thanks you sir! It's so good to see your face and words here on our pages!!

Sebastian Kisworo 4 months ago

great nature series

Clyde Beamer Thanks Sebastian!! It was a day full of nature, rain, wind, fallen trees and lots of rocks on the roads.

Clyde Beamer Thank you!

Cedric Leblond 4 months ago

A superb and moody series Clyde, love your choice of tones, the grain, the blur. Excellent work!!

Clyde Beamer Thanks Cedric!

Michael Ken 4 months ago

The images really sucks you right in, the dark mood really is evident yet enchanting... i enjoyed this series very much!

Clyde Beamer Thank you very much!

Lubomír Hnat (Cheron) 4 months ago

++ !

Stéphane Pagani 4 months ago

Fantastic series Clyde! Congrats!

Clyde Beamer Thank you Stephane

Codrin Lupei 4 months ago

A wonderful set of images Clyde, many favorites for me among them! Congrats! Cheers!

Clyde Beamer Thank you my friend!!

Peter Svoboda 4 months ago

Great series Clyde, very nice theme,nice how you worked with different angles,depth of field and details of the tree, love the mood!congr.

Clyde Beamer Thanks Peter, it was fun to shoot and to pull all the different look together to make a series!!

Jacob Tuinenga 4 months ago

A wonderful b&w serial with a great mood.
Love it!!

Clyde Beamer Thanks Jacob!!

Frédéric Verhelst (Papafrezzo) 4 months ago

well done, Clyde. Is this all the same tree? So much variation...

Clyde Beamer Thanks Frederic!!

Clyde Beamer 4 months ago

The comments by you all on this series humble me!! I appreciate it soooo much! Interesting that #4 seems to be the choice of some of you as the stand out. Personally I like #3 as it seems to show the motion of the tree actually falling even though I found it already on the ground obviously.

Sergio De Rosa 4 months ago

Clyde, this is one the best works I have seen here. It is an impressive story in which each specific image plays its role. I agree with King: the idea is very similar to a movie concept. I remain ompressed of the syntheis property of such works. In 7 steps your images contain a world: it is amovement from external (#1) to an internla state of soul (#7). The 4th one has its own value.
Thanks, many thanks. Some of us deserve to see such expressions of art.

Clyde Beamer I'm humbled by your comments Sergio!! Thanks so much!

Fabiola Amidei 4 months ago

Very beautiful this series! The motion pictures is so strong that you live this sad story with great emotion. Clyde, very very good.

Clyde Beamer Thank you Fabiola!!

Hengki Lee 4 months ago

Extraordinary....

Clyde Beamer Thank you!!

King Douglas 4 months ago

Clyde, the persistent sweep, thrust, reach and rush of this series befits the title. Reminds me of scenes from "The Road" with Viggo Mortensen. Have you every directed a film? Ever aspire to? Beautiful, thoughtful and moving work here.

Clyde Beamer Would there need to be people in this movie King? I think people spoil most sappy sunset shots, but maybe some like these?? THANK YOU my friend, you encouraged me about these when I was first doing them and I appreciate that and you a lot!!

Ben Goossens 4 months ago

An artistic series full of mood:-)

Clyde Beamer Thank you Ben, the master of mood!! It means a lot!

Kim Ayres 4 months ago

Great series, Clyde - very atmospheric and moody :)

Clyde Beamer Thanks Kim!!

TJ Millar 4 months ago

Clyde, what a delight it is to see your name in the Photo section instead of the Forum for a change! (much as I enjoy your forum posts...) This is a wonderful series, powerful, moody, evocative, bold, transcendent. I love the progression from the first magnificent image, and I love the sense of unity you've achieved, despite the varying techniques. Great work, my sincere congratulations!
Tim.

Clyde Beamer Yeah, TJ I don't submit much any more so I don't even get a chance much at the homepage. Nice to see this series make it.Thank you very much my friend!

Richard Spurdens 4 months ago

A very moody series Clyde

Clyde Beamer Thank you RIchard!!

Robert 4 months ago

I am speechless Clyde! Always only reading from you and now having a nice visual impression of yours work is something different which i am enjoying mostly for the silence and peace!

Clyde Beamer Life is full of surprises isn't it Robert!! Thank you very much for your comments. You picked up on one "mood" that nobody else has mentioned, silence. I live in LA, a very noisy place. I live close to a freeway and even in my backyard the noise is always there. This series was take in the mountains just behind my house and north of LA, The San Gabriel Mountains alongside Angeles Crest Highway. I go there as much as anything for the silence. I can pull my car off the side of the road and especially in winter, hear nothing, not even another car for long periods. This place is and was such an experience for me that day. With the rain and clouds, the road was totally deserted. I spent about an hour exploring this spot and don't think I heard 2 other cars go by. This spot is about a hundred yards from the road, up at about 6000 feet elevation.

Thanks again Robert for your comments.

Robert Sometimes it is just turning around and with open eyes and open heart the body and the soul will find such peaceful place of nature. Nobody need travel far just some view steps and all is there:-)

mario grobenski - psychodaddy 4 months ago

Great, great,great lensbaby work Clyde!!!
Cheers!

Clyde Beamer Thank you mario!!

Marei 4 months ago

Wonderful moody series, Clyde. Congrats.

Clyde Beamer Thanks Marei, how's being a Mommy going for you??

Ricky Siegers 4 months ago

like the mood very much Clyde, excellent !

Clyde Beamer Thanks Ricky!

Barbara 4 months ago

excellent. i love pinhole

Clyde Beamer Thanks! Our old friend VT would be proud!!

shila khodaparast 4 months ago

Great captured movements!!!

Clyde Beamer Thanks!

Arief Siswandhono 4 months ago

good series ... all is wonderful !!

Clyde Beamer Thank you!

Alvaro Márquez 4 months ago

I dig this. It's moody, dark and noisy, all in a good way. Looks awesome, man.

Clyde Beamer Thanks Alvaro! Just what I was going for, glad you like it!

Ursula I Abresch 4 months ago

Good one, Clyde. I like it very much.

Clyde Beamer Thank you my lady!

Anna Golitsyna 4 months ago

I see you are not afraid to hide important details in shadows :-) . Good style(s), good mood ...

Christoph Hessel 4 months ago

Clyde ths s a wonderfulnseries. The pinhole ones are something very very special. A mystery and surreal mood. The selection at all is great. Congrats Clyde

Clyde Beamer Thank you my friend!!

suliman almawash 4 months ago

Wonderful series.

Clyde Beamer Thank you suilman!!

Phyllis Clarke 4 months ago

Clyde,...this is great...and from interesting from you. Is this a Lensbaby, film or digital..the textures are lovely throughout. The whole series frame by frame almost seems to be moving. It is like your video skills got captured here also. Don't know if it was deliberate or not...but it works. :) Congratulations. Phyllis

Clyde Beamer This series is a real mixture of techniques. I tried to put a description under it now that it's published but can't find a way like you can w/ a single image.

The first 2 are prime lens shots on film. #'s 3 & 4 are Lensbably on a D90. #'s 5 & 6 are Pinhole body cap on a D90. And #7 is Lensbaby on film. And yes I was trying to show movement and time passage both. #3 in particular I believe show a sense of movement or at least motion blur.

I tried hard to even out the tonal range and grain appearance to make them all feel like each other even though they were shot very differently.

THANK Phyl!! I'm so glad you like it.

Phyllis Clarke Thank you for this response. I think how you made them made the series even more impressive. I am sure there has to be a way to add paragraph...I have to say I am pleased that I asked the question, because it did look very much like could be anyone of those mediums...and here you had used them all!!! I have to look closer now at the Pinhole ...5 & 6. The film is delicious and the mood wonderful. I think it is the kind of a series one could look at over and over..:) Thanks for the info...