What a cool shot! How did you manage this? Is it a piece of art/mirror?

This will totally ruin any mystique this shot may have had, but: it's part of an advertisement in an optician's window (for those lenses that darken in bright light ... photochromatic?).

You shouldn't push yourself so hard!

Great image, though. I figured out what it was before reading your explanation. :)

Dave, I use Opera and your new format portfolio (linked above) just displays as a column of (large) thumbnails down the middle of the screen No text, just the navigation right at the head of the page.

Paulo: I might take a day off next month. Chromasia has been running (more or less) at an image a day since February 5th 2004 so I don't want to miss any days quite just yet.

Adrian: that's what it's supposed to be like. You can click any of the images in the column to view a larger version (much the same as usual) and then click the larger image to return to the gallery's index (i.e. the column).

Whoa, what a trippy image. Anyways, you probably already knew that but yeah, I'm kinda not liking this shot because the left half is blurred out/not in focus while the right is just perfect.

I'm not sure, but I think I'd like it better if the whole image was sharp. The fuzziness is a bit distracting to me.

Cheers.

Thinh: I didn't take my tripod out with me this evening so would have had to bump up the ISO to 800 or 1600 or shot at a lower shutter speed to get a bigger DoF. That said I quite like the shallow DoF. What do other people think?

LOVE this image! I also like the shallow depth of field. The thing that bothers me a bit is on the left-hand side the window dirt/splatters are visible. It would be nice if you could somehow manage to smooth that out a bit, maybe by blurring it even more.

Dave, although it took me a moment, I quickly figured out that this was your shot of an accordion image. (the eyes through the lens on the right -- our right -- are obviously a big clue.)

You did fine with what you did, although I wonder if there isn't room for a philosophical complaint? (Have a moment? I'll buy you a nice bitter.) Remember Du Champ's "Nude Descending a Staircase"? He went to an extra mile to show the transition, and it was groundbreaking, it really expanded the time dimension of painting. The agency that did this accordion shot tried to do the same thing, break out of the limitations of a single shot.

Now, while their effort is clever and shouild be recognized as such, I'm not comparing them to Du Champ. But do you wonder -- just a bit -- if you've undermined their cleverness with your shot?

(By the way, I hope you know that I like a lot of your work; I don't always chime in on it, because you do get a lot of adulation.)

Very good shot, this is endenger mystique.

That eye peaking from behind the shades is fantastic. Also, the sliced nature of the photo, I believe, is strong editorial content about fashion and narcism. Great stuff.

Thanks everyone.

Judith: had you made that point about six months ago, I think I would have agreed with you but, for some reason, I seem to be moving away from overly 'clean' images.

Frank: yes, I can see your point, but I suppose I was after the transition itself, and in a single shot it's difficult to do it justice.

Interesting photo. Not sure whether I like it or not...

Re: the new gallery pages - I'm not sure whether or not I like the new design either! I kind of liked being able to see the beginning of the description for each photo. One problem, though - if you have Chromasia set to use the dark background, it reverts to the light background on the individual photo pages linked to from the gallery index.

quasi: the original category pages are still there, this new layout is an additional one. And thanks for the heads-up about the styles changing unexpectedly, I've fixed it.

This is an awesome picture!
So awesome that i made a poster out of it.
Here it is: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/galleryimage.gas?5414

Ya da best! Even a simple wall looks good in your pics!

selsek