a special day..
well I finally have to figure out how to use this journal...because it is impossible to answer to all of you who have watched my daily deviation....almost 10 000 watchers today...
First I have to thank missy-g
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symbiose for a daily deviation and of course Tracie
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I am delighted and overjoyed by this overwhelming flow of favourites, comments and watch and want to thank all of you for your kindness and support. My pageviews doubled in one day and that encourages me a lot...
And now it is time for me to use this first journal to feature a great photographer that has been my inspiration from my very beginning in here....
Let me tell you my story briefly...I saw one day ,somewhere on the net ,a beautiful picture ,very creative that I had kept in my head...I didn't know who the artist was, nor remembered having seen a name associated to the photograph, but I had the idea of the picture glued in my head..so, providing some glasses (plastic ones :sad

from a coktail party (the celebration of a playboy magazine issue where I was asked to photograph informally) I set myself to give it a try and the result was one of my first pictures in the gallery posted in 2005 which has remained in my frontpage since.
backlight resized
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I still receive comments about the creative idea and I wanted to leave the credit of it to his owner.....
the funny thing is that very recently it got Faved by the author of the picture that had triggered my curiosity and as a result I finally had a name and the original vision of the photograph again..and here it is wonderful ...new year
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I encourage everybody to watch this great professional
João de Castro
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together with his personal site
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have a look at his gallery and view the expositions where you will see huge prints of his art in rich and luxuous scenarios .
João de Castro has been featured in a Brasilian magazine
ïn March 2007 "photo magazine"
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enjoy
I hope that the pictures will appear in the journal..not sure about the procedure...
thanks a lot to all of you !!!




:joy:
Claire
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