Neat effect.

I once asked for a free copy of The Red Book of Mao at the Chinese embassy in The Hague. His theory about ' paper tigers' didn't inspire me at all. Nowadays I rather like reading books about photography and composition.

this is really fun and interesting.

That's good. Interesting how the two faces work together.

这是一个好实验Dave 。好工作

John: correct me if I'm wrong, but last time I checked '个' wasn't a Chinese character ;-)

Then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about so it may well be.

It's funny how we can find simple daily objects and turn them into a good photographic composition. When I saw this photo for the first time, I thought it was some kind of propaganda posters that you've shot in your trip to China.

Absolutely love this Dave, the colours, the vertical strips, the overlapping...it's like a super-cool piece of graphic design.

The shot is fun, though not one of my favs. Hat off for making the effort on a daily shot though.

Within all that is old there is youth.

Mao was still young inside?

Neat effect David.

Thanks.

RustyJ

Did you mean for it to be somewhat out of focus, or is that my eyes going bad, or are the images on the paperweights just not sharp. I enjoy looking at this, but the out of focusness is bothering me somewhat.

conomocity

eric: the Mao on the right is in focus, the rest are fractionally blurred, and to be honest, the clarity of the originals isn't stunning. On the full size version the detail is much more apparent; i.e. you can see how the images were printed, but at this res' they look marginally blurred.

Not quite sure what to make of this one. As an image it's interesting, but I can't quite picture the set up in my mind, so it's confusing me a little.

Montage

I checked out the chinese characters on http://www.google.com/translate_t
and john said: "this is one good tests Dave. Good works", or there abouts...

this one isn't really to my taste
the way its shot is fine, it just doesn't float my boat

Keep up the experiementing tho.

It is ok, but not my favorite.

Odd subject matter.

This is a fantastic shot. It would be beautiful if done on video too, if for some kind of documentary of China. It's so interesting and I love the contrasting white background!
Splendid as usual

Other people have already said it, but what a neat effect.

This picture has a painting effect to it, very artistic. Andrew Sanderson would probably be very proud of it, if he does shoot in colours.

Very nie effect. Maybe you should try to spend some more time in your studio for few days.

DJN: It is according to google ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

wow.. this is gooooodd.. very great idea and perfect execution.. great work.. ;p

I thought you shot a poster in China. Neat!

他的为人，事绩，好坏参半

坏？这个词似乎不太恰当，应该说有功有过，功大于过

Mao!A real hero!

One of my favourites! really pop! Really kitsch , so cool !

I thought this was one from your travels at first. I like it - good experimenting.

Thanks everyone.

Also, I won't be putting a new shot up today as we've got a problem with our phone line; i.e. no phone, no ADSL - so I can't upload today's shot. Hopefully they should have it fixed by tomorrow.

Well, I guess this is the first no-picture-today comment. :-)

I think the composition and studio work on this shot are excellent. The effort to get the paperweights aligned just so for a particular affect is obvious.

I think that my first impression that this was an elaborate reflection of a pealing billboard or something from your China trip (which seemed to be somewhat the case with others, too) is testimonial to the success of the shot, and to our expectations of your craft.

Cool effect. I was wondering if this was some the result of some drunken poster hangers.

oh and uh...viva communism!

Thanks everyone.

"个" is a Chinese character, believe me, it means "piece"...very nice pic :-)

it's so weird,but interesting