Sand Blasted

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[Manfred M]

Nice and abstract Jack. It works really well.

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Thank you Manfred.

[Barbara Ponder]

Jack for me the big shadow in the middle distracts from the rest of the shot. I love the lines and the texture of the gritty sand.

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Barbara, thanks for viewing. Yeah, I agree it's a bit weird, I see it as some kind of 'batman' shadow, but it's just to much part of the image to remove. I see it as an image of lines and texture, I guess the 'batman' thing has to stay.

[FootLoose]

I like this, Jack. Good composition with the shadows and the fishing line in there for a little extra interest. The sand looks like it has been rain-blasted to me, though.

[IzzieK]

Well, at least it is clean sand...when I saw your title I was thinking of our sandblasting machine at the hangar with the two rubber hands inside, nothing like it and I love the shadows you created here. I love the composition as is...interesting.

[Shadowman]

Nice lines and contrast.

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Greg, thanks! Either way, the sand was 'blasted', no?

Izzie, thanks. I know what you mean, I've used them before. There's some kind of analogy here I think.

Thanks John.

[Mike Buckley]

This is a reasonably unique image in the sense that it combines several opposite factors:

• abstraction and realism;
• indications of the past and present; and
• indications of what is and is not in the scene.

Very, very nicely done. Don't change a thing.

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Thanks Mike, much appreciated.

[IzzieK]

Batman then got to live another day!

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Batman always gets to live another day.