Disclosure

15.05.08 I found wonderful book of Steve Caplin in local library and added patriotic picture to my nude collection

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Three male photographers with Canon cameras assisted me in creation of this small collection.

Sometimes I doubt there is any sense at all to exhibit nude portraits on Internet. But time is going on and pictures - small replicas of reality accumulate on my hard drive and plead to take care of them. They also plead for exposure

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In Central Asia where I was born, 47 years old is considered to be age of grandmothers, and the women don’t model normally after 18-25, if they are well. In Russia it is still possible to find models of 30. For me it would be impossible to expose nude photos living in this part of the world

Once I met an old artist in the street, he was in his usual shabby jacket with fringes at the bottom, dragging heavy suitcase with sketches and looking thoughtful. When I asked him, what was going on, he replied: “It is always the same - too much of work and too little or nothing of wage”

Hej, my blog, the sacred wheel is turning on in spite of all odds! I just seek the way to promote my project “Faces of Austrian politics”

I am positively more and more fond of Hermann Hesse writings, consider him to be great author. What I have come across today in his book:

“Thank you, good man,” said Siddhartha, “I am afraid I have no gift to give you, no payment, I am homeless.”

“I could see that, - said the ferryman, “And I did not expect any payment or gift from you, you will give it to me some other time.”

“Do you think so?”- asked Siddhartha merrily

“Certainly. I have learned that from the river; everything comes back”

You are welcome to my recent flash gallery created with Lightroom and Autoviewer

“Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable”

From “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle

Christoph Exler

Everybody has his own concept of love and art

And love is the only form of art where everybody

considers himself to be highly professional

Every day I discover something new for myself in Photoshop, for example, duo and triple color function,

which I used processing this collage

I like red and green. In Graz the trams are green, and here in Vienna they are red.

I guess too much sitting with pictures makes me asocial.

After many hours of privacy I find it

difficult to bareprolonged small talks

I read yesterday letters of Vincent van Gogh to his brother.

He knew himselfhe was wild and asocial, and also knew he would

stay in state of extreme poverty till the end of his life.

He wrote that painting was hard physical work

Only he himself knew true value of his art at that time.

It is the same with all of us

Only we ourselves can estimate our own efforts

We go forward, not because others value or don’t value us

Fast portrait of young worker

Light is best artist, it creates something impressive and bright without slightest effort.

The lack of light makes everything dull and flat, and a few hours of work over such photos

hardly improve anything. It is like relationship. When relationship is dull from the very beginning,

it will hardly be better after months of closeness. Only it will be much more difficult to split

Cafe Aida. Spinnst du?

Hurra-a-a! Galina has the new lens at last! She is preoccupied now only with one thought: why construction of human head is so that humans don’t see what is going on behind their back. If they go along dark street or through jungles (what is the same) - to prevent sudden attack from behind they need constantly turn their head. I miss many things walking in the city without third eye at the back of my head that I would like very much to have