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15-JUL-2005

The Herald, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005

I’ve isolated a section of a primitive mural on the wall of an industrial building and photograph it as three layers to catch the imagination of my viewers. The subject layer displays an incongruously pale figure wearing a top hat, ruff, and feather. He blows on a trumpet bearing a white banner, while being shaded from the blazing sun by a foreground layer holding a real tree, beginning at far left and extending its leaves into the rays of the painted sun itself. The shadows cast by the leaves on the mural create a third layer, which welds all of these layers into one astonishing image asking the imagination where reality begins, and where it ends.

Canon PowerShot G6
1/1250s f/4.5 at 10.2mm hide exif
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Date/Time15-Jul-2005 22:32:45
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ModelCanon PowerShot G6
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Focal Length10.2 mm
Exposure Time1/1250 sec
Aperturef/4.5
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Exposure Bias1.00
White Balance (-1)
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Exposure Programshutter priority (2)
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Phil Douglis18-Feb-2006 00:37
Thanks, Jen, for the first comment on this image. And as usual, it is a very perceptive one. This image is all about the relationship between fantasy and reality, and you have allowed your imagination to play into it. The more you look at this image, the more you will see, feel, and wonder.
Jennifer Zhou16-Feb-2006 10:39
When I looked at this picture, my eyes were busying looking for what is real and what is not. The dots on the wall match the shadow of the leaves, making them in one, linking the reality to unreality. It is kind of tricky here, that we have to remind ourselves the mural is not party of the reality.. This is a typical Phil's Photograph, stimulate our minds, and have some humor in it. Thanks, I really enjoy it...:))
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