Dave Hollander Photography

I read your biography with attention and then check out your portfolio. I must say that you are better photographer than others that post a lot of stuff and I find extremely amateur...but your photos are very good, specially after reading your words...Please keep shooting and posting...the portrait in your biography is very good as well, meaning that tells something real about the subject, rather than something abstract.

Thanks for your comment. I feel flattered because it pleased my photography to you. In your portfolio there are "photographer wood". Ahead!!

Hi Dave I found it just after I e-mailed you ... I look forward to seeing more of your photos in here.. Did you take many while visiting my area? ~Peter~

Thank you for your kind critique,and thanxs that I could have a look at your portfolio.Best regards from Slovakia.

Hi Dave, Thanks for commenting on my travelator photo. You were spot on & I smiled on the lost car keys bit. I look forward to seeing more of your "folk photography" and witty comments/titles. I especially like your Man eating flower. Cheers Mark

Dave, thank you for your coment on my ''Cat''. You have nice portfolio.

Best regards, Dimitar.

Good stuff here. I love "The Clara Collection" and "Baltimore. Others as well. Very nice portfolio. Regards...

thanks for looking at my profile and for the coment...

Excellent portfolio. I like much your to folder "Rivers & Streams". An excellent photographic vision of very peculiar places. Wonderful your portraits, all with smile. Congratulations. Best wishes. Vicente.

...for your comment on my photo "Light and Shade". I'm glad you liked it. I wish that someday I'll be able to take such crystal clear and beautiful photos like you do...wishes.

I appreciate your kind thoughts on my photography. I haven't seen your work before and appreciate the opportunity of view your "folk photography". I love the term. Mind if I use it sometime? I can tell from your work we have a similar eye. That is seeing beauty others are too busy to notice. I like the pattern and repetition common to some of your photos. That is something I have been really noticing when I am on the backside of my camera looking at the great beauty this world has to offer. It seems to add life or at least motion to an otherwise still image. Thanks again and happy shooting. DMc

Thanks Dave!! I see you've been to China before. I enjoyed looking through your portfolio.

very good shots and sure,excellent portfolio..congrats

Dear Mr.Hollander.Thank you so much for viewing my portfolio and thanks for ur kind comment.Though you don't manipulate your photos they look natural and they're great.Good luck

Thank you for your time in comment and rate one of my pictures (Manana de niebla). I really appreciate it a lot. Regards.

Appreciate your comment on my "Watching his master" shot. Your portfolio is fresh and inviting. I think we have a similar eye, as well as a similar age, and non reliance on the technical aspect of photography!

It gave me great pleasure to both view your potfolio, and also to read your bio. I find your work very refreshing, some lovely images throughout. Nice work, well done!!

Hi Dave, Thanks you for the kind comment that you let on my portfolio. I have taken a look through yours and would like to say for starts that your portrait is a very nice image. Some people are lucky to be photogenic. With regards to your image some of my favorites were your close ups of butterflies, the images from Baltimore such as the alley way and your images from China, including the lake with the reflections and the walkway/bridge scene. Well keep up the good work and take care. Katherine

For your comment on my picture "Car Wash". I thoroughly enjoyed browsing through your gallery

Hi Dave congratulation for Your portfolio. I like the Baltimore and England folders. Lights and colours are excellent. Nice to meet you. Paolo P.S. Thanks for your comment on my photo "Envirude"

I love your portfolio. My first impression is that it is very colorful. Very good work. Now let me thank you for your comment on my shot. I completely agree with you. Sometimes, (Most of the time) I'm too lazy and don't work at all on my pictures, I did what you recommended, if you have the time please take a look. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6451106 Again, Thanks. Rene'

First, thank you for your comments on my portfolio, which led me to yours. After reading your bio, I have to say, I totally understand you when it comes to the malipulation of the photos. I feel that so many times the photo's are just as good in the "natural state" then with overthinking it. Many of my photo's have received critique's for not, as they have said, Fixing them up. I love it when the photographer gives what he/she sees, as we were there at the time the shutter clicked. So if you call it folk photography, I love it. Keep doing what your doing. I enjoyed your work, and will be back to see what you add. smile,,,

Hi David,

Thanks for taking the time to comment and offer a cropping suggestion for my photo "The View" Your idea is good as it bring the composition closer inline to the golden rule.

I was looking through your work and you have a great eye for color. I'm sure I will learn from you as I watch you add new work to your portfolio.

Thanks again.

Earl

Thanx for your comment! Good luck!

Your portrait photography has a rare sincerity! I am truly obliged by your comments and time spent on my work. I hope I can do the same for you soon! All the best!

Thanks for visiting my portfolio again. Your insight is very encouraging and helpful and is always appreciated. Its good to find someone who understands the concept of a "deceptively simple" image. Best regards.

Great portfolio! I like the industrial shots of Baltimore. Remind a little of Sheeler, but without 'quoting' his shots.

Thanks, JDM! I couldn't quote Sheeler because I'm not acquainted with him/her but thanks for the reference--I'll certainly check it out.

UPDATE: Oh, yes, I see what you mean. It's always fun to discover one's aesthetic roots--thanks!

I like many of them, landscapes, abstracts, people and places. You have a good eye to create abstract images from just lines, patterns or shadows. Thanks! H

Great photos. I really like the photos of the landscapes and buildings. I will enjoy visiting your portfolio again to see your progress.

I really enjoyed your portfolio, so many well observed shots - keep them coming!

All the best,

Shaun

Thank you for commenting on one of my images. I confess to being a nature photographer, however I really like your cityscapes. Enjoyed looking at your portfolio. Best wishes.......Helga

Hello Dave, I really enjoyed looking through your portfolio. The photos of Clara are very moving. They remind me of my own daughter and her growth over the years. Take care and keep shooting!

Thank you dave for you comment on my photo, I have seen your photos and you have a great eye. Keep on shooting!!

First off, thanks for your great comments on my folio! And you Dave have a great folio. Very colorful and crisp. I really enjoyed the Baltimore shots. alot of places I recognize. One of my daughters lives in that beautiful city so we get to visit from time to time. Last trip out spent alot of time on the Chesapeake as my photos will attest to. Really a great photogenic area and a ball to shoot..Keep on shooting and having fun and will visit often to see what new captures you have to share...RAY

A most interesting and fresh portfolio ... I never thought I'd like industrial shots , but yours almost converted me ! And thanks for your kind comments on my work :0)

I have visited this portfolio before a couple of times. I really like your tight shots that reveal interesting textures and patterns. I once visited Baltimore. So that part is fun. Anyway, thanks for the compliment on my dewy spider web.

Thankyou for taking the time to view my pics, your advice and critique are allways welcome.After looking at your work i feel you understand what i am trying to do because you acheive the composition you are after so elequantly i think this is most obvious in your friends,family and strangers pic,s the way you capture people doing what thay do,I can almost hear the conversations,, love all your pics, Best regards and please keep looking

I have not responded directly to many of these kind words here but I should say that they have and, continue to be, appreciated. I have allowed myself to take encouragement from them: to believe more strongly in my work and to continue to develop my skills and understanding of both the science and art of photography. Given my impatience and lack of discipline, I know I will never achieve the technical virtuosity I often see here but I do now believe I'm capable of creating beautiful and interesting photographs. Thanks!

Dave, your portifolio is wonderful. I enjoyed seeing all your photos specially the nature folder and baltimore. Very good composition. As you said you don't need to use crops and processing because your composition is very good. Congratulations. Thanks for visiting my portifolio and for your comments on three of my photos. Regards, Chico do Vale

thanks for commenting on my portfolio! i really like your work, the architectural shots of baltimore are especially fascinating!

i like your work very much l will be back to see more of it and thanks for the vist and comments...regards

Hi,

Thanks for your kind comment on my pigeon image. It is great to have such validation so early on. I took a look through your portfolio. I love the more abstract detail shots. The group around the 'locked box' make a lovely series. I would love to see more in this style.

Warm regards,

Simon de Glanville

Hi Dave, Thanx a lot for your comment in my photo. I would very grateful if you let me know about the technical problem of the photo az you hinted. I'm absolute learner here and thirsty for serious critiques. I really love the compositons in your photos in general. Lots to learn from them. Regards, Babak

Simon, Thanks so much for your comment! Although I want to keep my portfolio diverse, I do have a weakness for those shots so there'll no doubt be more.

Babak, I have elaborated on my 'quibbles' but keep in mind that, as you can tell from the unevenness of my portfolio, I'm hardly authoritative.

Thanks, Dave, for your kindly critique and rating on my photo "lonely night at a port". I looked through your portfolio. I like many of your photos. They are very "alive" and seem to make me to know your city. Best regards!

Thanks much for visiting and offering your kind comment on "Greek Sunset". As I peruse your portfolio I find it a wonderfully diverse and human collection of life... very good! I understand and relate to your "focus is on the composition and the results rather than the technical arcana". It is somewhat paradoxical that as our photographic equipment becomes more able to collect our images, the more we use it to distort reality.... sigh, a discussion for others.

Thank you for taking the time and viewing my photograph and leaving me a comment. I really appreciate your time! I also enjoyed viewing your portfolio! Thank you for sharing it with everyone! :)

Hey Dave, Thank you once again for rating my photograph and leaving me a comment. It means a lot to me that you took some time to actually write something in regards to the picture i took. Not a lot of people do that, and i sincerely appreciate that a lot! Please feel free to leave me as many comments as you like! :D

Thanks for your comments! I like your portfolio very much. I liked Baltimore and single photos. Well done!! Congratulations

Dave, thanks for your recent visit to my portfolio. I can relate to your biography because in a way I am not a technical expert. My emphasis is more about composition and the feelings and emotions that I try to convey through my pictures. You have a very charming portfolio. Your pictures are real, appealing and convey joy, especially those of people. You describe your work as "folk photography", but doesn't art applies to folk as well? like in "folk art"? ;) Personally I think this is beyond that. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work.

Thanks for your comments on my ,"Marsh & River" image, much appreciated.Have enjoyed viewing your portfolio which tells me you have a very creative eye seeing possibilities in unusual places.Impressed with your tight cropping to capture the essence of the scene. You must believe in the old photographic saying, " Sometimes less is more".Best regards_Ross

So glad you stopped by! I enjoyed your portfolio immensely and appreciated the chance to enjoy vicariously the places you've been (next time, I'll bring a fly rod :>)

Yeah, I guess I'm a bit "old school" about tight crops (and may sometimes come across as "Dave the Butcher" in the critique forum) but I'm learning to moderate that tendency. To be sure, tightening up the crop often gives the image more punch and can make it more easily accessible but, in some cases (where the composition allows), it can be fun to open the frame up a bit and allow the viewer to wander around a bit.

Hello Friend!

Well here it is another year is passing away and we are coming into the holidays. I think time starts to go faster as we get older, it was just yesterday I wished my friends Happy Holidays and here it is again the end of a year. The holiday lights are starting to be put on some of the trees here in Dallas, we were out last night and some were lighting the trees. I wish for you all a holiday season with family and friends, after all is said and done all we have is each other.

I want all of you to know just what your comments and ratings on my work means to me, your words are my motivation, my drive to discover, to learn this art that we all love, thank you for taking time and thank you for caring about my works. At the same time thank you for letting us see your world, our lives are so much the same, we all care about our families and friends and we all share the same things, maybe someday our photos will help make for a lasting world peace. May you and your family be blessed this season.

Happy Holidays and Happy Shooting

Ken

Your kind comment on my portfolio brought me here and I'm really pleased to get to know your work. I love the way you work with symmetry and how you find the balance photographing buildings and larger objects. Must say, my favourite is the two ships, I think its called 'Separated at Berth'. Keep up the good work, thank you again, I'll be back often.

Thanks for your comment. I want to learn how can i take beutiful photo. i need your comment and opinion. thanks a lot. your cutting is wonderful. fishs are horse mackarel i think.

thanks for your recent comments on several photos Dave! i wanted to write a note to acknowledge you...because i may delete several photos before you get a chance to read any response i might have left. i post a fair number of photos as "experiements"...hoping to get input such as yours. i leave some...i delete many more in hopes of improving them...or discarding if they're "hopeless". didn't want to think i was ignoring you... best regards, john

Thanks for your note. I understand completely! I've been trying to address my own case of "portfolio bloat." I hate to delete photos with helpful and insightful (or, to be honest, simply laudatory) comments but there comes a time when some winnowing is unavoidable.

of "Castel Sant'Angelo". I gave a (quick, too quick) look at your portfolio and I discovered some truly good shots. We have shared our visions and I have been very comfortable in your eye. Thank you. G.

Thanks for your visit and comment! I was so impressed buy that photo and others in your portfolio and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Your portfolio has so creative and strong images and very wonderful captured you've got, nothing more can say, and thank you very much for your rating on my photo, good luck. Nima

Nima thanks for visiting. The rating was entirely deserved.

I absolutely love the vividness of your portfolio. So many photographers apt for so many special effects, the art of photography gets lost. Not on your pictures. Beautiful.

I'm certainly not opposed to a little digital razzle-dazzle now and again (and have made some clumsy attempts at it myself) but I think it's the image, not the process, that's important.

Hallo Dave. It is a matter of pleasure to here from you and have a comments on 'The Barber in Lahore' You have a beautyful portfolio and I like it. Thanks

Thank you for your feedback on our photos.

We wish you happy Christmas holidays and a new year flourishing with fresh photo themes!

Cordial greetings!

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I wish you a Merry Christmas and a very, very good incoming new year for you, anf for all your friends & family. My best regards.

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I wish You a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2008. This is my first year here at PN and it has been a most inspiring time while viewing your portfolio and learning to know your view of the world around us. Thank you for the time you have spent on commenting and rating my photos!

thanks for your comments of my photos. I'm a beginner and I'm always happy to receive critiques by expert photographers as you are. Your portfolio is various and artistic. I'll be back to see more because I think that watching others'works I can improve. Happy Holidays.

I so enjoy sharing with you the wonder of what we see. You have all shown me wonderful things and helped me understand the craft of photography--and the world we share in new and meaningful ways. My best wishes to you all and for increasing peace in the new year!

PEACE & Happy New Year to you and your family.Basilis

Thanks so much for your kind comment on my photo, Dave. I have really enjoyed a leisurely look through your portfolio. It is full of interesting and original images - you have a great eye and the quality is obvious. Makes me appreciate your comment on my image even more! my best wishes for the New Year - Michael

Thank you so much, Dave, for your comments and attention. This made me detect your very rich portfolio. It is a pleasure browsing your pictures and following your view of situations, things, people. Thanks for sharing! Kind regards, Alexandra

Only today I had the chance to read your critiques of December 31, and I appreciate them very much. I find your portfolio very interesting because it has a taste of spontaneity, of everyday life, with its little moments and its little corners. Regards!

I'm so glad you found some things to enjoy in my portfolio. It is really wonderful to be able to share glimpses of our visual experience across great distances and personal contexts!

What a beautiful work of art you have here, all your portfolio is full of emotion, really touching. Thanks for stopping by to see my single photo... I'll be uploading some more work little by little, as soon as I have some time left for myself. Congratulations! Lia

Lia, I'm so pleased that you enjoyed my portfolio. I see you're considering a Pentax and hope you noted that virtually all of my photos were taken with either the k100d or k10d.

Dave,

Thanks for visiting my portfolio and your kind comments. I have thoroughly enjoyed browsing yours this evening. You have many fine people shots here! Clara is a beauty as well. I have enjoyed your "folk" photography, keep it up!

Best regards, Tammy

Thanks for visiting and I'm glad you found things to enjoy!

Your shots are saing: "Dave was here.." Keep that way of observing while giving that pleasure priority! The worst after the question "Where have you been." is having to answer: "Do ask my camera.."

Hi Dave some really great work here I think you are a bit too modest,you have a great eye for colour and form, from another old one best regards

It's been great pleasure for me discovering your beautiful portfolio and the various themes you've already explored through your photographical journey. I look forward to being back here looking for more. A tres bientot, Laurent.

I really appreciate your encouraging comments! I have so much to learn but I do like to think I'm making progress and that my photographs are at least interesting and, sometimes, even present some glimpse of beauty &/or meaning. It's such a joy!

What a wonderful portfolio you've assembled, Dave. And speaking for us "Hollander watchers," we can see the steady progress you've made. Yours is an interesting place to spend some quality internet time. Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful portfolio with a variety of beautiful images.

Thanks so much for your encouragement!

I can tell you are surrounded by love just by looking at your photographs. they are very contagious. I want to thank you for stopping by and commenting on my work. The image withe the ribbon is mine. It was my final project for school and was shocked myself that I came up with it. I will see you around and look forward to viewing more of your work.

Diana

Thanks so much for your comments on my work. You have a magnificent portfolio full of interesting images. Keep sharing ...I will certainly keep following your work. Regards Raquel

Nice portfolio - you have that talent to see.

Thanks so much for your encouraging comments!

Thanks for taking time in my portfolio and I feel glad to have your encourageable comments here.Please keep on commenting -it will help me to improve. regards.

Dave,

I love your portfolio! You seem to have a comfortable relationship with your subjects.....the candid portraits are particularly good. And I have really enjoyed reading your heartfelt and constructive reviews to others here on PN.

Thanks for your comment on my photo, and also I visit yours, and I am glad that you keep it simple and nice, just as it should be. Great photos!

Thanks so much for your comments here--I'm very pleased that you found things to enjoy in my portfolio! As you can see I have included some which are really not so good technically (like you I am still learning) but may be interesting &/or suggestive of a way of seeing. It's great fun to share these images of our world, isn't it?

Enjoyed your portfolio a lot! Colourful, sunny, bright, cheerful overall. Sassy girl with mirror made me smile real big. And I liked your single photo's a lot too. Eye for detail. Thanks for sharing!

It's a bit tardy but I want to thank you for your comment on my Laceleaf image. Looking through your portfolio there are so many really fine images that appeal to me I've decided to put you on my favorites list. Will return to it later to post comments as I have to leave for work soon. Love the dog shots as they are so dear to my heart. I've had ten Shelties and they bring so much joy to my life. Best regards, rek.

Thank you for your comments on my 2 photos. I really have a nice connection with your flower pictures, I will definately get some advice from your portfolio, again thank you.

Ben

I'm so pleased that you found some photos you liked here. Some, I know, are a bit idiosyncratic but I hope they're at least interesting.

You have some great pictures in your portfolio!

your compositional skills shine through the most in your "nature" folder as well as "single photos". Your focus on composition (as you state) shows in a very positive way!

Dave, I had never seen this before....You have some stunning images in here... ''BRAVO'', BRAVO, my friend....

Hi Dave!

I'm happy to have discovered your portfolio. Very good shots with a great eye to see them.

I will come back often to be update about your news.

My best regards.

José, I was delighted to find that you had taken a stroll through my portfolio--your comments are greatly appreciated!

just poped back to see whats new, same standard of excellence great pics thanks for sharing best regards.... ady...

Interesting portofolio and the best choice of colors, congratulations !

Great Portfolio Dave I really enjoy looking at all your photo's and am a fan of your work which continually inspires me to do better in my own photography. Keep the captures coming.

-Ben

I'm sorry I missed your comments until now. I still have a great deal to learn so your encouragement is greatly appreciated!

Mary Christmas and happy new year 2009 to you and yours Dave . with best wishes. Nima

Hi Dave, I posted some thoughts about your post shooting hoops is hard, go back to that section and take a look.... Joe

especially enjoyed the nature section. I think you have a great eye.

Happy new year!

Enjoyed your portfolio. The variety was refreshing. You take good architectural photos, but I'd have to say your nature shots are my favorite.

Wow, how nice to find this collection of comments! I'm so glad you found some things to enjoy here.

Fine pictures with great colours, congratulations ! don't worry that you aren't tehnical are very nice pictures. I love river section speacially good luck in future and more courage you are good photographer best regards RoxanaChiru

Thank you for your very nice comment, Roxana!

thank you for comment my page PS I have new photos Roxy

Nearly two years later.... I've been back several times before, since there are a lot of shots to look at here. I remain very impressed. It's really fun and instructive to look at your work.

JDM

Marry Christmas and Happy new year 2010 to you and yours and thank you for all your support:) . best wishes. Nima

HAPPY NEW YEAR

You have a wonderful portfolio and may Santa bring you more of it for the year to come! Merry Christmas!

PDE

Merry Christmas and happy new year!