Shambhala M. Photography

Congratulations, Shambala!!! Your work is outstanding and refreshing!!! I love the way you treat black and white and the positive energy they transmit. Thanks for sharing!!

Shambhala, thank you very much for taking interest in my photos :D I really enjoy your work! your photos are very beautiful and heartfelt. i hope to see more of them :)

Excellent portraits very interesting faces combo's..Like a lot, thanks for commenting on my work too. :) AP

I admire your work on people, It seems like you really love people

How are you? I love the additions to your portfolio! You're so skilled with people! Loved to read the bio you added, too! :) Talk to you soon. BTW, I finally got a chance to play with the Neopan. Would love your comments/critiques! Leslie

Nice to see that you are back in action again, Missed you, missed your work. Looking forward to seeing more and hearing from you! Be well, Todd

Thanks for your very kind comment on my page - but you probably meant someone else. I can see the passion in your photos. Something which is hard to convey. Keep up the excellent work!

You have a very interesting portfolio, I enjoyed a lot looking at your portraits. You have an honest way to make people look beautiful or attractive. I like the way you work with b&w. thanks, Vasilis

Thank you so much for your kind comments. The thing is, most people I photograph are naturally beautiful, which makes me job easy! As you can see, I only shoot in B&W, using the Fuji Neopan CN film, which has a fine grain and is respectful of skin tones. I like a lot of your own work and will keep on checking you out! Best of luck until next time!

Nice collection of portraits.

Thank you for your kind comment. Looking at your own work, you've got nothing to envy me for! You're on my Interesting People's List. Keep on the good work.

Really great work! You have an intriguing name too. What are it's origins?

I'd be honoured if you could have a look at my portfolio. I'm just starting out and would appreciate your comments.

Best regards from Kenya, Mark

www.photo.net/photos/mk-pixology

I really love your work. I think it has a really positive message and it captures your subjects humor and dignity. Thanks for your kind words on my work. We have a similar background, I use to work for Valentino and Michael Kors, I learned couture sewing and design in school. As you can see my work is very driven by people with great personal style. I have no formal training just developing my eye by looking at magazines and Bruce Weber work.

I'm a full-time dad now (I do some design consulting) so I don't get to share my photos much so if you have any comments that might help some of my "technical mistakes" I would really appreciate that. Thanks again Scott

YOUR WORDS AND WORK ARE FROM THE HEART. THANK YOU FELLOW LONDONER .

Hi Shambhala - this is the good stuff!! Keep shooting, keep posting, keep sharing!

You're not bad yourself! Your Speaker's Corner and the Carnival images are worth showing to magazines or image banks. I love your framings in Parkour. Take some more!!!

You added on my portfolio... Yours is superb!! I really really like the interfaces the most. You have a magnificent, soft style!!

very good portofolio...impresive and great work...regards.cris

Well, thank you for stopping and appreciating! In return, I must say your Falls collection is superb! Let us see more!

I really love your work! Thanks for your comment on my portfolio (she's my girlfriend)!excuse if my english is not correct...

Shambhala, looking at your work for the first time I am very impressed. There is such a great load of emotion here in so many beautiful portraits. Thank you for sharing. Peter

Thank you for your kind comments. There's a lot of good work in your folders too. I particularly like the Manipulated images for their dynamic. You have your ways to play with light! Keep it up!

Thank you for your kind words. Your Portraits are very nice. Greetings! Jochen

Hi Shambhala, Thanks for your kind comments on my portfolio. I am pleased to have been given the opportunity to visit yours. I particularly like your Actors folder.... simple but elegant, and beautifully lit with strong expressions. I'll stop by again. Best wishes.

You've got so many folders I need more time to go through them all... What I like about your images is that you try your skills on really interesting/varied themes, which, as you can see in my work, I don't do often... Glad you like the Actors folder though: they're my full-time occupation right now. There's a secret location nearby which provides me with the best of natural light, so I take everybody there! I'll visit your gallery very soon, which is a great source of inspiration. I'm curious about your writing...

Dear Shambhala, thank you very much for your encouraging comment on my portrait "the coal miner's daughter". I will have to go through your portfolio in detail and look at the wealth of portraits you share here. It is always a pleasure to receive a pat on the back from someone with a great portfolio themselves!

Thanks for your comments and good pieces on my shots. Your are dead right. Piero.

Greats shots.

I have been "playing" with BW in tribute...:)

That's a good effort! I can tell you're a fast learner!

No I just copied you :)

Have a look at my cat FOOD shot and let me know if you like it.....its very colourful...which you may not like....but its funny.

Actually the phrase I'm going to tell now was used million of times and has become a "Buzz words" since it was told for a first time, but I don't care and I really mean it.

YOUR WORKS ARE FULL OF LOVE.

Thank you for sharring them with us.

thank you shambhala:) you have an amazing portfolio here too:)
and about the photo you said it "should be in a magazine", well, it was published in a photo magazine just last month:) thank you once more:) ***

Great portofolio, i like to doing all in BW. Good portraits.

regards Matej

Merci pour ton passage.. qui m'a permit de decouvrir ta gallerie. Il y a de superbes portraits avec un style et une sensibilite remarquable ! C'est frais et joyeux, j'aime beaucoup. J'ai lu ta biographie, parcouru le site de ce mr Garros.. tu es donc pro?? et bien je te souhaite plein de reussite. A la prochaine !

edit: I'll be following your work ! Cheers ;)

Thx for you visit on my portfolio. I think you have a wonderfull portfolio too. So many faces. Keep shoting. DDD

Oui, mon cher, I've been a pro for 11 years but I've been specialised in actors only since November last year. Let's see where that leads me to!

I've lived in Bordeaux for three years and had the best time of my life!!

Will come back and see more of your work.

Hey, thanks for coming back to me. Had another thourough look at your work and boy, you take me to a different world!!

All of the above comments reflect my own. I love your work. Your images are inspiring in every aspect. I will look forward to see what you have posted. My best regards.

Many thanks for your comments. You have great shots too, my favourites being the B&W and The Eyes Series.

If you like painting, check out www.wetcanvas.com!

I really appreciate your suggestions, thanks. You have a very interesting portraiture collection. Best regards, Massimo.

Thanks so much for checking out my portfolio here. I envy your opportunities to photograph and be exhibited, and my abilities are a far cry from yours! But hopefully, in time... :)

I thank you not only for the comments to some of my pictures but for making me find your portfolio. I love portraits more than any other type of pictures and yours are excellent. I could be watching them for hours... You have a very interesting background (which remains me that I should also write something about me). Maybe that is the reason why you seem to communicate so well with your subjects... Please feel free to drop by and comment my pictures whenever you like. You can be sure that I will be visiting your portfolio from time to time.

Outstanding portraits. I like your work, really amazing.

best regards,

You've got some good work too and we want to see more!

your portraits are very consistent and well done. I enjoyed them immensely. Thanks for taking the time to comment. -john

thank you very much for your comment on my work but... i see that you have a great portfolio, too! i'll mark you into my preferites... hope to have your news soon. g.a.

i'm so glad to have run across your work, what an astounding, delightful find in this place . . . the Mixed Race Collection, you must be thinking about a book, no? I saw a book recently about people living in harlem, that's all i can recall but will try to find it -- each person got two pages, with the full page photo on the left, a full page of oral history on the right, it was quite sublime. it appeared to me that the interviews took place first, and the subject matter from the interviews suggested what became the setting and perspective of the portraits.

to attempt to capture the spirit of people, to tell their story, is challenging and rewarding, you have a masterful hand in doing so with both subjects that are alert and relaxed, and tones and perspectives that reveal without betraying. i am a total untrained amateur myself, so take all this with a healthy grain of salt, but i have one suggestion. try your hand more at environmental shots, your close ups are excellent (and i understand for the actors they may need these head shots), but so are those when you pull back, and these often can be used to place people in the context of their lives very effectively.

read your bio, jealous of your training, hope you are having great success, love jazz music myself, -- have you tried the cuban works around the buena vista social club? the pianist, ruben gonzalez (i think i am getting this right) his solo albums are amazing, jazz influenced, he was in his 80s when he recorded them. oh, you are a bassist -- have you listened to cachao?

sorry to run on. i find your work VERY special.

fyi, here's a link to the book that i was talking about.

http://www.blackbooksdirect.com/b0385504063.html

Well done portfolio, Shambala. How did you get your subjects for the Interface project? There are some beautiful pieces in there...Thanks for sharing!

Je decouvre tes mots doux sur mon portfolio et mes photos, ca fait plaisir je t'en remercie. Bah j'aime enorm魥nt le tien de portfolio; il est plein de vie et d'optimisme et ca j'aime beaucoup... C'est riche et varie, je ne manquerai pas de venir commenter quelques unes de tes photos. Un excellent travail. Je te souhaite une bonne continuation dans ta carriere! a bientot...

Being mixed race myself, it was acually easy to find everyone for my exhibition - they're all my friends!!!!

I was introduced to your images by Ben S.whose work I admire. I am glad I did. As you less is more. Stunning work, both a mixture of technical perfection and spontaneous images. I instead, have done most of my work by instinct and artists as you provide the continued inspiration and motivation from which to learn. Thanks for sharing your work and congratulations.

Ciao, Marco

Thank you for your warm and encouraging comments. Ben has become one of my most loyal viewers and that he has recommended me to you is flattering. I hope my work can inspire you as much as yours inspires me!

Outstanding portraits, so very consistent yet very individual. You have a wonderful eye in capturing the beautiful lighting around your subject.

God's light is the best and everywhere I look, I see beautiful people! I am glad you like my photos and hope we can learn from each other.

Very nice set of natural portraits. A lot like the portraits I did in the 70's (see folder). I need to start doing more portraits again! I've always thought black and white with natural light and expressions is the best for portraiture. To me the best expressions are the ones captured "in between" the poses/personas and set smiles of usual portraits.

Shambahala M., great report photos, I'm fond of them for its classic authentic style. I am independent photographer, don't have any contracts with agencyes. I'm interested in interaction with you. I work in Russia for Jewel magazines, I don't speak English well, in my biography i've left my tel.numbers and E-mails, you can write me. I will answer with the help of one person.

Je garde un oeil sur les portfolios d'Olivier M. et Laurent D. donc ... me voila ici!
Extraordinaire galerie de portraits!... C'est un style de photos que je ne maitrise pas du tout! (je ne maitrise pas grand chose d'ailleurs...) [LOL] alors je me regale devant les tiens.
Les poses sont naturelles, tres agreable. Superbe & POWERFUL !

Great display of portraits and real people shots. I find portraiture one of the most difficult areas of photography to achieve really good results, and you manage to get them so naturaly. I'll keep two eyes on your work hoping to learn something in the future. Congrats! Alex

Merci pour tes encouragements! Venant de ta part, qui as une technique parfaite, je les prends comme un compliment! Moi, c'est les gens qui m'inspirent. Je me nourris de leur energie. Faire des photos de fleurs, d'animaux ou de batiments, ca m'ennuie... A chacun sa specialite!

Tout comme toi, je surveille le travail d'Olivier et Laurent. J'adore!

i love the beautiful simplistic style of your portraits shambala.will keep watching out for more.

Thank you very much for your comment. As I always say, when it comes to portraiture, Less Is More!

I get your point, humans come in all different colours. Yet, let me add that being mixed race myself, I felt the need to do that exhibition to show how varied mixes can be.

I hope no offence was taken, because none was intended. A great portfolio indeed. Please accent my apologies for not commenting on that first.

You might be too young to know this great song "Ebony And Ivory" by Sir Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder. If you ever get a chance, please listen to that song. I bet you'd fall in love with the lyrics [and the tune] just as I did.

No worries. People are free to do and say what they want, and that includes PN users.

I DO know the song!

Dear Shambhala. Thank you for such a good words. This guy isn't an actor but in fact he is a friend of mine and he's a vet doc :)) You are right, that fingers shouldn't have been cut...mea culpa. I often look at your portfolio and you are one of my favourite photographer, your lighting is simply perfect. best regards! Wojtek

Well, your friend must be very happy with the pictures you've taken of him! I would!!

When it comes to lighting, would you believe that I ONLY ever use natural light? I have never liked/played with artificial lighting...

I'm impressed the way you use natural light. You have great results. I'm playing with artificial light at the moment, but I prefer natural light either. However, studio lighting gives more possibilities :)

Yes, studio lighting might offer more possibilities but remember I trained as a photojournalist. When in Sarajevo, I learnt to work with only one source of light - the sun! And that technique stayed with me. Also, I did not go to Photography school, hence my complete inabilitiy to 'create' an image - I am best at capturing what I see as it exists, as opposed to foreseeing lighting effects.

Studio lighting was invented to replicate the sun's light. Yet, I can always tell when it's not natural light. If the same effect can be achieved with natural light, why not use it? Mind you, most people believe my pictures were taken with artificial lighting... That proves that the sun is the purest of lights!!!!!

I didn't go to Photohraphy school either and all I know about lighting is from my father and training. I'm absolutely amateur. Your portfolio is so stimulating that I will try take more photos using natual light. By the way, it wolud be great to have such a great portrait as yours models have...

So, you want a portrait of yourself by me? Well, come to London!!!!

Yes, you should try and take some shot outdoors. Let's see what you can come up with without setting them up!

an impressive portfolio. i like the versatility of your tone: you really play it like a keyboard. best of luck!

a portfolio always richer of good photos of interesting faces... i'd like to know which scanner d'you use for your negs. (... and i'd like to see you with a leica...) bye.

wow, that's inetresting, do you not even use lighting in your studio?

You must have big window's :). What happens if one your actors come round on a dull overcast day?

That's right - NO lighting! You should know by now that I NEVER work in a studio. All my actors were photographed in the same outdoor location near my house, apart from the three portraits that have a white background, which were taken in their homes. That secret location of mine has the best of lights and is in the shade, so that the artists don't squint. This is why I always get good results even on a grey day. Having said that, it is getting colder here in London so I wonder what I'll do when the real cold kicks in...

Dear Shambhala you have a really outstanding portrait portfolio. You are a master in catching interesting expressions. Thanks for visiting my portfolio and commenting it so kindly! I'll come back quite often! Carlo

I am lucky to photograph charismatic people!

Hi Shambhala~!thanks for the most recent comments on my work. I really like what your doing these days. B?W portraits are my favorites!! Keep up the great work and I hope you have a great holiday and new year! Adam Paine

... if i'm rock you are more and more soul...

have a merry xmas...

When the cold kicks in ....put the fire on and open the wine, That what I do...:)....you must stuggle to light the actors in the winter.

Hope you have a nice xmas.

Happy New Year! Thank you for all your support and comments on my photos in 2005. May 2006 be a very good year for you and your family, Best wishes from Dallas Texas

Thank you all for your encouragements and New Year wishes. Quiet week for me right now but it won't be long before I get busy again!

When I was just a new-kid-on-the-block on this site, I've dropped by. Now I've settled down a bit and seen different styles and lots of beautiful pictures, your portfolio in one I have to come back to now and then. You have the abbility to let the soul come out!! Almost all your models look if they have been touched by an angel, haha....... Excellent work again, almost dutch girl...:-)

Thank you very much for your warm comments. PN allows all of us to be inspired. As photographers, it is our responsability to get the best out of our models; our open attitude makes them relax and forget they are being photographed.

This reaction took some time... I had to study your images first. Did you notice everybody is looking up at you? Not just the viewers, the actors too! I like Bridgitta a lot, your natural light, it's nice to have secrets. Looking at my own work I think I can be very 'Baroc' sometimes and sometimes Calvinistic/Dutch/clear/simple. You are very clear yourself, I think there 's where we meet. Obviously you like peoples faces, your models are no smilers, I like that. I think to know what food you like and what music... I think your can be restless. I think you are dreaming a lot. I mean, your work tells a lot. Or at least it is pretending. Tell me once there is an exhibition of your work, I visit London very often. Ciao, trying not to be impolite, floris.

"Actors" is perfect part of your portfolio. Bravo ! Very inspiring.

Thank you for your encouraging words. You have a good selection of photos yourself!

you sure are gathering a fan base. by the time i read through all the comments, most of my thoughts had been expressed by others. anyhow, i still have a few left. i love the soft lit portraits (i'm kind of partial). your black and white are exceptional. and you have an eye for capturing the human beauty. a young man i wanted to photograph recently would not let me as he said he was afraid i would capture his soul. maybe he's onto something as you definitly have a few souls in your collection. great work.

danene

Yes, portraiture is about revealing something about people they do not see in themselves. In the case of the many actors who've posed for me, they are amazed that I've succeeded in showing them as they are, not as people see them. Honesty is what I'm after; beauty is in everyone, and it's up to us photographers to make it show on the photos.

You should convince that person to pose for you. Nothing to be afraid of!

The strongest portrait collection I have ever seen. Constant, exceptionally brilliant. This is awe inspiring.

Merci pour ton gentil commentaire sur une de mes photos. Ils m'ont donne l'occasion de d飯uvrir ton portfolio. J'apprecie particulierement la serie "interface", pour une sensation de tendresse et d'intimite envers tes modeles.

Thanks for your kind words on one of my picture, that gave me the opportunity to see your portfolio. I specialy like the "Interface" serie, for your intimacy with your models.

Amicalement

A very strong portfolio. I really enjoy your work, especially the street photography. You have an acute eye. The interface series is a fine idea, nicely executed -- and many of the images are charming, even moving depictions of loving relationships. The actors series demands careful study. I agree with your presentation of it, a large collection of these apparently identical shots en masse, which quickly leads the viewer to see how they must be studied, one by one. Thank for posting your images, and I hope to see more.

Dear Shambala, thanks for revisiting my page and leaving another comment. I'd really like to continue getting your feedback on my work, so please, do come back again. Also, I very much like your portfolio, especially the portraits folder - so particular and well defined. Thanks!

Just had some head shots done with shambhala and I can't recommend her highly enough. The only photographer I've come across who not only actually explains to us poor hapless actors how to carry oneself in front of camera, but just as importantly why. Unlike most 'production line' photographers she really puts in the time and effort and it shows in the final product. I'm really happy with the results of our session and would urge anyone who needs new headshots or is unhappy with their current ones to rush to her immediately (actually, give her a call first). Thom Fell (professional film and television actor)

oh dear you have all just beautiful simple but a lot-saying portraits!! i would be very greatful if you could share me some tips. inge kirsi

Beautiful portraits; your Actors folder is so rich. And thank you for your comment, I'll keep it in mind.

Thanks for your comments on my portfolio. You are very talented. I wish I could take good portraits like you do. You are, Im sure a great model, but also a great photographer. Wish you a lot of sucess. Pascale

Beutiful portfolio...stunning portraits...I liked it very much.

Sheila

What a beautiful Gallery you have here! Your a master with Lighting &shades!

simply inspiring

Its beyond me how you could have received any rated at 3 whatsoever, i have just had another look at your folio...(Im a fan now)and would rate them all 5 and above. That said I'm only a lay person

It's been far too long since I've been to your folio! It's great to see you are still hard at work making beautiful portraits :) Hope all is well for you and that you are having a wonderful summer! Take care

Leslie

Very goog job. I like your works. Keep this way.

Regards from Moscow

And very impressive! For the entire handful of months since I first picked up photography as a hobby (haha), all I could do was teach myself from scratch. Photography courses in Singapore where I am are mostly run by techno-geeks who are more focussed on all the little gizmos in their cameras that half the time aren't even used, and they have so little emphasis on getting that one photo idea. Which is why my pitiful little portfolio thingy is so haphazard, no real theme linking them together, just a bunch of random shots. But your work is truly inspiring. Whether or not they are black and white, I can see every drop and inch of each person's character in your people photos. They're almost 3d. Haha. It just 'pops' out of every photo. And it makes me wonder why I'm so crappy at getting people shots, because you make it look so easy. Haha. Well, maybe because Singaporeans are REALLY camera-shy but I think I'll need to learn some tricks to help them chill out anyway. Sorry if I don't know photographer lingo. We don't learn much of that around here either. :)

Beautiful Work! Stunning Characters see you!

great portfolio!!! congrats kind regards

Happy birthday so!!! have a great day!!! kind regards Alfredo :o)

Now I have seen it. A different portrait folder. Original here. I like the way you have had them used black wearings (or changed it during conversion) Colourless, patternless textile assures that attention is drawn to faces. Very good, indeed. I guess it also emphasizes expressions. And so great B&W work... Respect, a s l a

very good.... will visit again!

Hi Shambhala, I really like your b&w portraits. This is the one area I am most interested in, but one that i am sadly weakest in. Its very challenging trying to capture the essence of a person and the secret has eluded me to this day. Your work is an inspiration to me, as I keep trying to master this art. Thanks for sharing your work here with us, and do keep them coming. Cheers, Rosmini

Your portraits are great - I am truly impressed. greetings, Arek

You have a special way of putting contrast into a picture... I like that very much... Cheers Christina

excellent portraits. really beautiful

Very nice portraits! =)

Regards,

Patrick Jacobson, Sweden

Salut Shambala! Impressionnante galerie de portrait! Je te souhaite une grande annee 2007. Amicalement, Philippe.

Very impressive and exclusive B&W portfolio. I really enjoy the Actors section. Congrats Yiannis

Hi Shambhala, Ive been looking through your work and am very impressed! One of the actresses you have photographed recommended yourself to me, I would love to get some acting pictures done with you and was wondering how I would get in contact. I've had pictures done in past but was never really happy with them, looking at your portfolio I can see you capture people fantastically and I'd love to be one of them!! My e-mail address-jessmulcahy@yahoo.co.uk-would love to hear from you!!

hola shambhala you have a beatiful portfolio. congratulations.

Kisses

Eduardo

I just commented on one of your portrait pieces at the critique forum and came directly here. What wonderful and prolific work you do in portraits. Each one is a gem. Great lighting! You could shoot my portrait anytime :-) I look forward to coming back and taking a closer look at your work and giving it the time it deserves. I just uploaded a few portraits as well, please feel free to visit and if you wish, let me know what you think. It was a wonderfully overcast day and it provided gorgeous light. Looking forward to seeing more of your work. Best, Paul

I visit your collection of potraits pretty much on a regular basis. I cannot explain but somehow it makes me come back over and over again. I don't think I can add much to what other people already wrote here about your work...it's great! I like the "Portfolio" and "Interface" the most. Please post more.

Gene

What a great set of portraits! Love the mixed-race part of your portfolio. You seem very fond of b/w - just like I am - , maybe you can have a look at my portfolio. Cheers!

I really enjoyed your "Mixed Race" collection of portraits. As the mother of a daughter who is mixed race, it really spoke to my heart reading some of the mini-bios. (I am Caucasian and her biological father is from Haiti.) I am attaching a picture I took of her the other day as she was studying, and paused to lean her head on me when I checked on her. I just happened to have my camera in hand. You are a beautiful person, and thank you for sharing your collection.

I need to take a few headshots of my niece for her acting portfolio/resume. I really like your work and that you use natural light. Do you have any tips you could offer? Should I use a black backdrop? Do you shoot indoors or out? It looks like you use backlighting - how do you do that with natural light... Anything at all you could tell me would be great!

Thanks Lisa Lee www.lisalee.smugmug.com

If it was possible I'd like to have my BW portrait taken by you, but I'm afraid I live too faraway... What a great portfolio you have, congrats,

Best regards,

Jose

Great portfolio and work about mixed races.

Thanks for visit my photosite, I see your collection is really a great; in my opinion the photographer are a frustrated painter. I enjoy visit your site. thanks for sharing. best regards Gershon.

Your portfolio *gasp* I'm amazed, and humbled at the same time, that someone of your caliber took the time to give me a few pointers.

Thank you.

...your friend Ivan from Bosnia ( Camden ) told me about you work so I found you that way. You have wanderful B&W. I love it, especially this intercolor experiments.

Much love from Bosnia

Do you only shoot beautiful people or you somehow make them all beautiful? Thanks for sharing these photographs...

well, thanks for your comments. For my father's photo I can't. I'm looking at your portfolio...Ciao

Hallo Shamrock,

yes it was long ago and I was busy. Last year I spend in Melbourne and worked for a model agency and did a clip for a band. Now I'm back in Berlin and working for an art shipping company - and I'm quite often in London! So maybe see you there...

Cheers Meiko

I like the straight technique you do your portraits, it is your brand!!!!

I just enjoyed your portfolio very much, specially your "interfaces" portraits, I love the way you focus on genre. Best Regards, Ruben from Buenos Aires.

Very interesting portfolio!! Love the Actors folder! Best Regards :) Justyna

The idea is nice but the title troubles me: their is no such thing as races for human beeings. Ask any biologist. This word is a non-sense. But I like the pictures!

This comment may not be on the technical aspects of your work but more importantly those who grace your photos. On that note I wish to congratulate you on capturing the beauty that is found in all people regardless of where they may come from. Even more so, those who celebrate it by sharing a love or friendship. For we are of one race, the human race. Something that should be appreciated for it's great diversity.

I hope to see more works in the near future added to your portfolio on this subject matter that tends to be neglected by many artists.

Nice B&W portraits, nice models, congratulations ! Alex.

I loved all of your photos. Considering actors, interface and portfolio folders, all of those folders deserve 7/7!! seriously..

great job!

Ciao Shambhala I read your comment on my picture Eloise and Daniel. I sow yours I tried to give a comment to one of your photos. I can't decide, in all of them i see their life, their stories. I want now invite you. Wait a moment... Nix

I like your photos a lot. I like the description of where the parents are from, and then trying to see that in the people. These people look like they all came from ATT, Coke, or you name the corporation, ads. Fun, great, awesome, cool looking folks. Gus in Salinas, California

great portraits, all! congratulations

As I commented on one of your portraits of the actors, you have a signature style that captures something far more important than technical excellence (though you have that too). You are getting a piece of the soul in your photographs and they are therefore superb! Your tones and composition are beautiful, and the image you are bringing out of your subjects just dances. Good work, and keep it up.

The "mixed race" portfolio is stunning. It is just the kind of joyful inclusive work we need here in the states. You have a gift and should seriously consider taking your "mixed" theme further and then publishing.

Thank you for sharing your passion with us,

Daniel

Thanks for your very kind comments on my photo; your portraits are fantastic, and i am deeply flattered that someone of your calibre liked one of my photos!!

First of all Congratulations for to be Featured by PN! I think the portrait is the most dificult category of photography because is not only composition, colors, shadows, and other technical aspects is mainly an expression of the model's personality and shows the relationship between the model and the photographer...and you're a master! Merci pour le partager avec nous. Toutes mes félicitations, Luis

I like the simplicity of your portraits. Regards.

just excellent and attractive. regards-siamak