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here i am

"... if you think back and replay your year,
if it doesn’t bring you tears,
either of joy or sadness,
consider the year wasted..."

Decided on a quick shot to mark my first year "anniversary" on pbase :-)
Thank everyone again for your greatest support, feedback, sharing and encouragement.
And most importantly, for your friendship. Thank you.
Special thanks to my dear friend, Ros for getting me started on pbase one year ago,
letting me experience such an unforgettable journey in photography.
It has been a roller coaster ride of learning, inspiration and emotion,
at times exhausting and frustrating, but I got no regrets.
Here I am today, still continuing to try, fail, find and grow, day by day, under your eyes.

(Part of my new gallery: exposed...)



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Latifa Messaoudi06-Mar-2007 19:20
the composition is well done !!! love it too:)
Guest 16-Jan-2007 16:34
Great shot love the composition
sebas veldhuisen19-Nov-2006 08:17
Superb! Split by the eternal white. You have a great photographic mind.
Jim Ross11-Nov-2006 08:37
Superb... I just love coming back to this gallery,
long may it continue to grow... :-)
Yiannis Pavlis24-Oct-2006 01:18
excellent work.great photo.very creative.bravo.
Guest 23-Oct-2006 00:08
Oh my god I'm sorry I got to this one late Ai Li. Didn't realise it was your "anniversary" and I tend to save your shots up for when I have time to study them properly! Congratulations on your wonderful photographic journey this year and for letting us join the ride. Your images are an inspiration! Tim
Guest 21-Oct-2006 22:25
A very imaginative and well executed composition. Perfect placement - wonderful!
Guest 20-Oct-2006 22:41
Congrats on your 1-year anniversary! What a great year it's been for you. Thanks for providing inspiring work, and most of all excellent, constructive feedback. You are a model Pbaser!
Chris Sofopoulos20-Oct-2006 20:13
My compliments for your great works here in Pbase and my warmest wishes for becoming better and better day by day improving your skills and talent.
A creative composition! v
Guest 19-Oct-2006 21:00
Yet another cracking image..
Up against the wall maybe but always climbing higher.
Guest 19-Oct-2006 01:51
Happy one year anniversary, my dear.
So much has passed between then and now, it feels like so long ago.
Keep seeing, thinking, growing... You can only get better! :)
Kisses. R
Azlin Ahmad18-Oct-2006 22:44
Hi Ai Li

I applaud you for having the courage to display your strengths and vulnerability through this gallery. It has been a pleasure watching this gallery unfold, and it has launched you to a class of your own. Magnificent. Voted.
Bill Harris18-Oct-2006 13:27
Kal sums it up. This shot is wonderful.
Roe..18-Oct-2006 02:17
I'm thrilled to have discovered your work..thank you for your support :) this image is creative and unique..I love it..
fred_il17-Oct-2006 12:16
Hey you!
Another outstanding shot!
Congratulations for your so beautiful year in photo!
VOte!
Guest 17-Oct-2006 11:47
Happy first anniversary Ai Li. Once again you manage to portray your emotions so well. HP is a lucky man :-)Big Vote
Guest 17-Oct-2006 02:11
Has it been a year. I still recall some of your first photos here. You amazed me back then and still do. Hope you have another great year.

Wonderful photo btw
Kathy Pedersen17-Oct-2006 02:10
Brilliant work, showing the different sides of the real you,(as many of us do) a masterpiece and so compelling. A very happy one year Happy anniversary!!!!!!
Guest 17-Oct-2006 02:06
Brilliant! Others have explained all the reasons why!
Craig Persel16-Oct-2006 22:39
Another creative classic. Vote.
Guest 16-Oct-2006 22:31
Your creativity gets better and better,Ai Li. I'm inspired by you!
Congrats on your 1st year on Pbase. Wish you many more years to come!!
Sue Robertson16-Oct-2006 22:17
Antoher masterpeice. v
Guest 16-Oct-2006 20:24
I wish that in my own rollercoaster ride, my highs would be like your lows!
A brilliant image, with the work on the light that is interesting - coming once from the right and once from the left. The high key is so perfect, with the edge of the arm in the light vanishing entirely. Crawling, as Jude said, yes, there is a feel of that. As if between the to shots, you had been able to reach the top right corner. Very creative and perfectly realized. Voted.
Guest 16-Oct-2006 20:14
Happy Pbase!!! Brilliant shot finale to the first year... It seems as though you're climbing the wall, frame by frame... I love how the right torso fades into the background at the bottom, showing that with each movement you raise your sights and leave the past behind, bounding into new levels... *V*
Antonis Sarantos16-Oct-2006 18:42
Your creativity is beyond any limit! You GMV of course.
JSWaters16-Oct-2006 17:11
Happy pbase anniversary, Ai Li. I feel off balance looking at this - as if the two yous are feeling blindly for each other in the dark - while everything is bright and white. Your placement on the left says you're reaching and searching for something, the outsplayed fingers trying to get there. On the right, you've positioned yourself higher, more confident of the direction you're going, your hand skims along the path you've traveled.
Jenene
Silvia Roitman16-Oct-2006 16:32
VERY NICE IDEA AND EXCELLENT COMPOSITION!!!
type16-Oct-2006 15:36
Lovely sense of...I don't quite know the word; flow, bounce, reciprocity here - the way it makes the eye run from one corner to the other, noting the differences and correspondences.
David Grundy16-Oct-2006 15:18
Are there two of you?
Original, as so often. Thanks for the first year of sharing.
Guest 16-Oct-2006 14:01
We can see so much of you without seeing much of you. Wonderful Ai Li!
Guest 16-Oct-2006 13:57
Fantastic image! I really like the high key B&W and how the shot is full of emotion even with showing any facial expressions!!! voted
Vincent Belford16-Oct-2006 12:04
Very nice idea for an SP
Stu16-Oct-2006 11:59
OK is this a particularly heated game of Twister that's gone horribly wrong?!!

Seriously though, great visual appeal and a cool idea. Brave and inventive in terms of its rule breaking and it really works, I like all that space in the middle. Those small amounts of shadow really add to it too imo.
Guest 16-Oct-2006 11:55
Ooooh very nice...
wonderful idea of an SP and a geniusly creative shot.
Thanks for your friendship too, AL. Happy anniversary!

mel the tummy
Sharon Rogers16-Oct-2006 11:27
Happy pbase birthday - keep up the creativity
jude16-Oct-2006 11:23
I hate my work computer.. I wrote something and lost it .. :S
What I said was that I am ever impressed with your creative additions to this gallery.. they are unique and excellent.
I like that you seem to be crawling up the wall.. the bit of strap falling down is a great touch.
Guest 16-Oct-2006 09:06
intriguing image
great imagination and creativety as already stated by Kal
vote
Guest 16-Oct-2006 08:55
There you are Ai Li :) As always you added the nicest touch to this shot :) Ai Li the sequel!!! :) :)
Kal Khogali16-Oct-2006 06:54
Your imagination and creativity is inspirational Ai Li. I like the sense of confusion..."does the right hand, know what the left is doing?". A kind of unsureness, a lean against the wall for support. Only a year?...well, what matters is that it is work memorable enough to last a lifetime. By the way, I believe this gallery consitutes you most brilliant work. K
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