Gundega Dege Photography

Your picture are very interesting as frame and composition. I would like to see more! Bye Antonio

Thanks, I sent a comment to your portfolio!

Hi! Gundega, I fall in love with the kids and your wonderful portfolio. Very artistic and great eyes for photography. Thank you for sharing.

I am glad that somebody than me likes my photos :) Thank You :)

I like the folders "nature....".

But I'm waiting for the rest of "erotic" folder ;-))

Compliments

You have a very unique name, it fits well with your with your vision. Love your "almost naked" shot. However your "Night Lady" is my favorite. Happy Birthday !! : )

my name in english is buttercup thats the name of the yellow flower we got here in Latvia...my name is Gundega that also means Gun = fire, dega = burns....besides i am sigitarius by horoscope that is sign of fire...:) Thanks :) I am glad to give you piece of my soul that i put in my photos..:)

First, Happy Birthday. I really like your pictures of people (kids and portraits}. you have a good eye for a picture, well done.

Thanks Harry :)

Beautiful portraits and vivid still life image. I love the expressions you get from the kids. Beautiful portfolio.

Thank you Alex, i like your works as well :)

i never was laughing about you...

i had a look at your pictures....some are realy nice...i just was wondering that this one picture...did get so many great ratings...if u ask me, its your worsed picture ...and i just wrote what i think...never wanted to laugh about you or hurt your feelings...i am a little surprised about your reaction

Great portfolio.

I like your portfolio. The erotic set all have a butterfly, why a butterfly?

Working with Kids must be really hard and very heart warming, they look as if they enyoy it and you have captured this well.

Well done!

Thanks Stuart :)

Your way of colors is very nice

I am glad that you like it :)

Amazing WORK - LOVELY colors... a beauty coming from a great artist. I really passed some 35 great minutes here... All photos are excelent... Especially kids - Macros. Way to go. I added you already in my Interesting People list.

compliment!

thanks :)

Lovely and so good portfolio with diverse images and originality. Bravo Gundega

Hi Gundega, I came to your portfolio for the first time today. You have amazing portraits. People in front of your lens seem to be very relaxed and confident. I specialy like your children and still life pictures. You go ofiicialy to my interesting people folder...;-)

peace

thanks :)

Amazing portfolio and wonderful artwork. More I visit Photo.Net and more I find great photographers, I'm really not disappointed discovering you. Thanks for sharing.

thanks a lot :)

Wow! Your photographs are very very impressive. My favorite folder of yours is the kids photos; but all the other folders are equally as great. I marked you as "interesting person" so i'll be able to come and look at each of your photos more closely. Keep up the great art photographs & thank you very much for sharing your lovely portfolio. Best regards Gundega~

-Hillary

Thanks Hillary, i am really happy to share my works with you :)

Excellent!!

thanx :)

Impressive porfolio and very inspiring ...thanks for sharing
best regards!

I like the kids shots, too. You catch a wide range of emotion. Thanks for sharing.

Great work I enjoyed the complete portfolio

Regards From Ireland

thanks to all for watching :))

Very expressive and impressive portfolio.Congrat.

GREAT portfolio, and the serie I will always protect you, is OUTSTANDING

Thanks for sharing

Els

Portraits and nature excellent, also nudes well done. Pretty photographer. Antonio

Very Impactful Portfolio. Bravissima. mandi, Roberto

there is much love in these photographs... congratulations.

Strangers around us.... and Kids folder is the best of the Best ! 10/10 for this two folder ! Vladimir

U have a very creative mind....i will always protect you ...hmmmm ...very good serie...and kids ...10/10...best regards.cris

I really like your B & W images. Keep up the good work.

I like your work very much, especially kids in B&W. Keep it up!

Great portfolio! Especially 'I will always protect you...' & 'Halcyon'. Best regards & waiting for more :) ...
Sėkmės darbuose !!!

nice portfolio! I like your jobs :)

really interesting gallery.

Your Vision is Awesome I am pleased that you have chosen the coarse you have (Read the Bio) I do this as a place marker so I can come back and revisit Keep it up.

Your portraits speak so loudly. Each one tells a story and brings forth strong emotion. Beautiful work.

Your photography and digital work is inspiration in my eyes. Your photo manipulation talent is moving, I hope to practice to be that good one day. Keep up the great work!

bravo, brilliant gallery

You have created some amazingly beautiful art here. I like your work especially with the children. Personal style and vision is present all through your portfolio. Although sometimes shocking they are still beautiful images. Strong work, keep it up!

i love most part of your portofolio, mostly because of the ideas behind the photos. Great work you've posted here!

Gundega you has an extraordinary, proffessional and exquisite feelings per le photopraphy. I feel like a fish into your world. Lights, angles selected, medium tones, several composition and cretivitie. Nicely eye in order to show us a critical reality. Each of this shots are an excellente guide to hit the ignorance about many topics that you wish we should see it. Thanks for all your messages, I?m so glad to know picture by picture. Nice to meet you !!! And let me to keep into my special group of great photographers on photo.net

you can create the kind of pictures I like most! they go straight ahead to my soul and make me feel something I cannot explain...

Hello Gundega, What an amazing portfolio! You are a true artist and have created some very evocative series that seem to contain dark hidden secretes. The light, colorization, composition and mood are those of a master. Yours is some of the finest photography I've seen. Each image holds the viewers eye and makes one wonder about what is going on in the life of it's inhabitants. Words fail me, I can't say enough about your talent. Bravo! Raymond

This is an outstanding collection of images. A truly inspiring place with a very strong artistic vision and professional execution. Every folder here displays images that are far superior than the ones you see on PN. Cheers, Raphael

A stunning portfolio - full of very creative images! My best wishes

mi inchino....a si tanta bellezza!!! complimenti.

Very expressive and impressive portfolio.Congrat.

thank you, your images make me want to do better. you have a very childlike mind....not childish but childlike....great gift when your a photographer.

Truly inspiring work you have here! I am rather speechless. "I will always protect you" portfolio is so filled with richness and artfullness.

very deep and emotional work. if have not already heard of the artist Jan Sudek you should check him out. you will probably enjoy his photographs.

Awesome portfolio, your photos all seem to tell a story! You have a creative way of capturing expression!

You certainly have a knack for inducing and capturing the expressions of the people you photograph. Yet, most are soo somber and sad they give me the impression of people who have are in the midst of a war zone. Clara E.

This is absolutely fantastic portfolio. I don't know what to add!

excellent portfolio, i love your style...im a fan

So emotional... ...great portfolio. You are an artist!

Eli

Very artistic and sensitive. A lot of knowledge is shown here, and a lot of emotion. I'll be back, you are a photographer to follow.

dark atmosphere, a sense of life and death, childs and desolation, dolls and a youth that seems lost somewhere. All these just to say i love your pictures! Thanks for sharing them

.oesse.

I'm really impressed for the beauty of your photos, I love the athmosphear, the compostion and post production.

you are very B R A V A ! ! !

- Manuel -

A very fine portfolio. You are a gifted photographer, in both your creative vision and technical skills.

Impressive portfolio, glad I found this.

fantastic portfolio

You have posted a great deal of strong work. I also looked at your deviantart postings and liked much of what I saw there as well.

The issue that is now before you that will permit you to advance in your work and to advance your work in the world is for you to understand what it is that you want to have people understand as a common thread/theme/metapor to all your pictures. Many of your images are surreal and clearly you are invoking strong metaphor with their symbolism. But my perceptions of that work are clouded by its being adjacent to work made for clearly different purposes... It is very hard to say many things at once and then have any of them well heard.

Photonet as a context encourages people to show each other EVERYTHING they know how to do. On one level -- what I think of as the assumption of basic skills level -- this is valuable. Folks can pick up many useful tricks of the trade here. BUT, once work is as evolved in its creation as yours clearly is (for being in photography such a short amount of time your work is stunningly good) it becomes time for you to refine and focus what you choose to show the world.

I will change gears a little. Galleries. As it happens I am a photogapher who is fortunate to make his living pretty much exclusively off sales of my prints in galleries around the world - 25 in 9 different countries at last count. It sounds a bit self-agrandizing for me to say such a thing but that is not my intent. I just want to make clear that I live in the photographic art world, in the milieu of galleries and museums etc. and have done so for long enough to know a little about it.

When a new photogapher walks into a gallery to show work, here is what the gallery is looking for: refined, evolved, intense work that has a focused, even single-minded purpose to its creation. They want work whose signature is so strong that if they see an image from the same photographer somewhere else entirely by accident they will know immediately that it comes from the same artist. In no small part this is because the collectors to whom galleries sell work want people to RECOGNIZE the work on their walls. "Oh, you have a Picasso. You have a Warhol, you have a Dege!" Whether this is a GOOD thing or not one could discuss for a long time. But it is the REALITY of how work advances itself in the art world. I am personally unaware of ANY artist who succeeded well in the thin air at the top of the art world whose work was not made in accordance with this idea.

What galleries are NOT looking for: photographers who know how to do a lot of different things. Not only do they not care, they really do NOT want such work in their programs because it is impossible for them to describe it to their collectors. Mechanical prowess means nothing to collectors. What they want is work whose creator is a brilliant madman, possessed, whose photography is a symptom a passion larger than photography itself.

Now, the reason I am writing all this to you is that I see a body of work of this caliber in your portfolio. You are that rarest of creatures -- a natural artist. Given the right luck and circumstance your work could achieve a significant success in the world of fine art photography.

You must begin by editing and, yes, I know, it is hard. It is for me, also, the hardest thing in all that I do. But so necessary. Then you must give thought to what it is that ties all your pictures together and when you think you know you must begin to work again towards adding work to the idea, adding the idea to more and new work. If doing this BORES you (always a risk) then you haven't yet hit on quite the right thought and must think some more. This is NOT easy work.

Annyway, I read what I write and am repelled by my own arrogance in making so many strong suggestions. Please know though that I do mean well. I would like to see work that is as rare and as strong as yours fly from Latvia to all the world. You deserve it.

jock sturges

your imagination is a rare gift. I agree with Jock on one thing, the world deserves you. someone in Hollywood has to realize, you are a great cinitographer in hiding. at the very least, a publisher should break down doors to find you.

i am just making pictures of what I feel....thanks...I would be really glad to show the world my works....

You should smile in your photo, you do beautriful work. Thanks.

All that is worth saying has already been said. One can only fully enjoy the priviledge of observing your unique style in complete silence of admiration. Bravo.

yOUR WORK IS AMAZING AND GORGEOUS!!!!! Your pictures tell great histories and are full of art and sensibility. My congratulations. Belen

your work is but that good..... is impressive!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg, your work is brilliant. You have one of the best portfolios here. Keep up the good work.

That said, I took in the comments of Jock Sturges to you. Obviously, he has achieved quite a bit of noteriety--and I mean this in a positive way. Unfortunately, he himself describes the unfortunate reality that gallery owners are looking for an excentric madman. I hope you don't misinterpret that to mean that your work must of necessity be excentric to be successful.

A word about Jock. I'm sure you know who he is, if you live in the US. There are at least two of his books available at your local bookstore. I think, unfortunately, the content of his photographs overshadows the great and subtle substance of his art. Do I think this is a bad thing? Yes, I do.

What makes him financially successful, unfortunately, based on his advice to you, is the very thing he should loathe, that is, the built-in American taste for scandal and sensationalism. Would Jock be as successful if his pictures were lanscapes, or merely the tame creations of say, a Frank Phillipaerts, who has a portfolio here at Photo.net? I, unfortunately, do not think so. Does that diminish Jock in my eyes? Unfortunately, it does. Now, do I think he cultivates the scandal? Not deliberately, but by not renouncing it, he takes advantage of it.

Perhaps I misconstrue his words. Perhaps, he is not advising you to seek controversy, but to cultivate a style distinctly your own, and distinguishable from everyone else's. I am hoping this is what you read into his words.

Good luck.

I was going to comment on some of your photos but I cant decide which , they are all amazing. I love your kids photos!!...You truly are an artist!!

Michael

Compliments for your portfolio. Best Regards Mario

Not much I can add to those who came before. You have a marvelous technique in service of a unique artitistic vision. The emotion that comes through in all your shots leaves me speechless. You are a superlative artist, and I admire your work tremendously.

i'm impressed by your portofolio, but most beautiful and expresiv photos are the sections with children.

I admire you stunning inspiring work !

You have a great portfolio, each picture of yours tells a story. All the best

What wonderful work! A sea of diamonds, thank you for a great journey!! Peter

Enjoyed your creativity and thought. Your imagery is original, entertaining and sometimes strange. That's good, I like it.

Your work is amazing and very inspiring. It seems as if almost every photograph has a story to tell. Best regards!

It's really a brilliant portfolio. Congrats

Gundega,

I'm thrilled to have found you on PN. Excellent work, beautiful ideas implemented very skillfully. I am looking forward to your future works!

Kindly, Vi

Jesus you've got some creepy images. I love it!

A thrilling and eyecatching portfolio. I love it. Your photos HAVE something to say. Cheers.

There is a moon in the well, there is the moon in a sky. There is a child in the blood, there is the child in a sky. There is a woman in the mud, there is the woman in a sky. Well is sky, blood is sky, mud is sky. I am looking at your dream, you can... you know... to bear your devils! But now devils and angels play "ring-a ring-o'-roses".

(Maurizio Moro) p.s.: your photos are wonderful: ...you are wonderful!

I've never seen so large ammount of wonderful shots inside the same portfolio. I love the light you use. I love the themes you treat. Simply perfect a lot of shots! I'd have a lot of questions to hask you about your style, your visual language but this is not the right place where discuss about it. I'll came back often to eaevesdrop you pictures, I hope you don't get angry ;-) bye. gaetano

Hi. So following up on your work. The folders "I will always protect you", "Silhuetes", and "Breathless" are very strong. The images themselves are strongly composed and striking (particularly in "I will always protect you."

The graphic and dark interpretation you take seems to work more strongly in full body shots or group shots rather that a simple tight portrait - at least for me. You seem to be trying to tell more a story with the body images that work well with the technique you are using.

Keep it up - I find your work fascinating.

Good sur[realizm], good underground works, good... sufferings...

i'm very impressed by yr wonderful portfolio! U have a fantastic creativity with yr post process works

outstanding picture, great work, i love it, wish to learn your technics. best regards Marc

Happiness is a warm flash...and I mean this in many senses. Fantastic portfolio!

Ilike very much your portofolio! great work-BRAVO!

Outstanding!! I love the dark atmosphere! Congratulations!

heavily influenced by Jan Saudek.

Your work is absolutely intense, deep, dark, brilliant, thoughtful, beautiful,devastating,unpredictable, peaceful and painful. Keep it going I have just become a huge fan!

I admire your work, great talent , fantastic images!

Oh how amazingly your gallery is!! Truly fantastic and inspiring

Great portfolio! One of the best I have seen. Great artwork.

Leif W

Exceptional portraiture. I'll check in periodically for more.

- Really outstanding portfolio. Like Your style very much. Glad I found it :-) Best regards with respect Kent Bovin

excellent porfolio Gundega, plenty of fantasia and good taste, excellent composition, excellent treatment of the image, in a word... a brilliant work

greetings from Spain

Fran

really awsome and beatiful portfolio.. i love the portraits of the ballerina...very interesting and dark photos.. keep up the good work

You have a lot of beautiful shoots here. An excellent portfolio of work. Your portfolio expresses a wide range of emotion and subject matter. Compositions and techniques are impressive. Your camera is in good hands. Onward and upward!Wow... I've never seen anything like this but I really like it! Hey, you're on to something... way to go! You really have a style of your own and guess what? I think you're going to be a great hit with you talent and your style. Thank you for sharing with us.

Hi Gundega, Although I found your work to be a bit strange, there is no doubting your vision and quality. Best regards,jim

All is good.Bravo.

outstanding work!

compliment!

Exemplary!!!!! Good , very good work! congrats!!!

I am deeply impressed and humbled by your remarkable portfolio. Just, wow!

sveiciens, ieraudziiju foto ar mazo meiteni un pamaniiju ka aiz vinjAS ir kaads uzraksts..un veel vairaak latviski...biju ljoti patiikami paarsteigta...jo varaak jo pati tatgad dziivoju amerikaa...gribeeju tikai izpaust savu sajuusmu...par juusu foto maakslu...taa ir origjinaala! es pati esmu iesaaceeja...ja ir veelme...varat atrakstiit.. laimigaa@yahoo.com Kristine

outstanding work, very diff. i like the dark theme of yours.

I'm constantly awe struck by your photos, they are truly amazing!!!!!

Absolutely breath taking work! Consistant excellence. Thank you so much for sharing.

Excellent, soul touching work

Your portfolio is amazing! Absolutely one of the best at photo.net. Don't know why I haven't marked you as interesting long time ago... Best regards, Jon.

Hi Gundega. Strong style with a lot of creative. Congratulations ;-)

what an exciting collection, great style, Im looking forward to seeing more, Si

I'm deeply impressed. Great work! ! !

Viva la Latvia! You have excellent portfolio, I like your style and technique. Your work made me strong impression!

While I find some of your images a little off the wall there can be no denying your abilities as a photogrpaher. Your a talented lady, I'd love to be able to understand light and composition the way you can.

Regards,

Ger..

The most artistic portfolio ever seen! Shots on I always protect you folder are perfect.

Astounding and amazing! Your art is very beautiful and etherial. It takes me to a make-believe world. Lovely. Keep up the great work.

You have your own style and aesthetics in photography and i believe is great !! My best regards .

nice to see beautiful work like this I enjoy the light and the dramatic effect

I love your portfolio. Very well done!

Chris

very good photos, but too much depression to me..

very nice work.

Genial portfolio !!

I am speachless!

I like very much your work.

I love your style and technique, I especially love the nudes they are very haunting and dark, but they almost pull me in and, it's just wonderful. Lovely.

I enjoyed looking at your portfolio. You have a unique style.

Regards. Pete

So imaginative and emotional images. Bravo. Thanks for sharing with us. Powerful.

Your portfollio is very inspiring. Your images made my visit one of the best.

beautiful portfolio - especially the ballerina series

Your stunning portfolio is without doubt the highlight of contributions I view on this site. I feel too humbled to offer a critique...the inspiration you draw from obviously comes from your soul and needs no input from my admiration....only sincere praise by way of acknowledgement and encouragement in the hope you will continue your path. Thanks, Paul.

very very beautiful porofolio

What a phenomenal eye you have!

WOW! Wonderfull portfolio. Congrats!

Dear Gundega, Xmas is not only a Christian festivity, it is also a wish of rebirth, of continuous change considering the new year, who will like you more and more a human being! Good your Xmas and good 2007! Maurizio.

Gundega, You have an incredible eye and a brilliant imagination for putting the right person with the right background and props. I would put you in a Herb Ritz category if I had to judge your work. Excellent imagery. One of my favorite portfolios on this site.

I come back many times for inspiration Gundega. What a beautiful and haunting vision :)

Hello my PN friend!! Just wanted to wish you and yours the Merriest of Christmas' and a safe and prosperous New year!

Wow! I love your portfolio...gret colours, composition, lightening, ideas...hope to see more soon. Greetings, Bojana.

Oh, My God! your photos...they are so great, that i have no words..i'm in SHOK! :))

and..can you tell me, what tool do you use in photoshop most?

hi, i love your work, it's so emotional and unique. One of the best portfolio in photo net. great!! regard Claudio.

A beautiful series of photos. Each one captures a story of its own. I will be back again and again.

Tony

Congrats with your images, this is ART and I love them.

best regards, Ben

very good eye and digital manipulation!! will revisit

www.krijnvannoordwijk.com

I love the 'Protect you' series. Great drama...

www.krijnvannoordwijk.com

creative mind.thank for your beutiful art.

Bravo!

Very expressive and impressive portfolio, i think is one of the most beutiful portfolio i have ever visit. you have a strong style with great lighting and perfect use of effects.

My best regards .

Yiorgos

One of most impressive portfolio around here! I didn't bother to rate your images because it will be a well worth 7/7. Great shots. Looking forward for updates!

So Nice...

Your portfolio is absolutely fantastic. You certainly have discovered your own distinctive style. Congratulations! :)

Hola Gundega: como se puede ser tan buena? en tu portafolio no hay una solo foto que no merezca la pena, realmente me tienes rendido a tus pies. Tus fotografias son tan bellas como la expresion que tienes en tu retrato.

recibe mi mas sincera enhorabuena.

contecon

You are my favourite photographer on photo.net!!!

Thanks for comments I am glad people like my work, so it means I am on the right way!

WOW, your portfolio is amazing.

Quite impressive as I have always thought.

Your work does not provoque indiference. It's really impressive. One of the best portfolios I've seen in PhotoNet. Congratullations!

Your photos are amazing!! I love your style. Keep up the good work

Wow! Your portfolio is very AMAZING and quite unique. I absolutely love your style. The models, especially the children, photographed beautifully. Thank you for sharing!

Angela from Toledo, Ohio

Excellent portfolio.Best regards Janusz

excellent portfolio...thanks

BELLISSIME!!!!!!!

Wonderful works!

Few portfolios are as extensive, imaginative, and creative as yours! Please give us many more photos!

Oustanding portfolio. Kids serie is really great. This little girl who looks like a woman is one os most interesting faces I never seen, and you know how to capture her.

Very inspiring! Regina

que portafolio tan mas bello eres una inspiracion para que yo saque mejores fotos gracias por tu trabajo

Impressive portfolio. One of the best and original works here. Thanks for sharing. Regards

What a stunning portfolio. Excellent work, great art.

Outstanding, diverse work. Beautiful portfolio!

You have a fantastic portfolio, with a very personal vision. I like your unique style, never seen that somewhere else, very inspirative. Congrats.

As I said you on a post of the "bride forever", I'm shocked with your work. Here there are a lot of fellings and art!

You are doing perfectly things that I just wanna try to do. (I marked you as a VIP)and I'll back here to take a look soon and often, for sure.

Sorry my poor english (If was better, i would praise you much better)

Wounderfull portfolio. Best regards from Austria. Klaus

Apbrinojami, vienkarsi apbrinojami...

Adorable, just adorable :)

I could spend all day commenting on the individual photographs in your portfolio. Instead, I will say this... When I grow up, I want to shoot like you. Fantastic work, artful vision. Thank you.

I browsed your portofolio and i have to say, i am amazed!!! it's just INCREDIBLE, any other comments are useless, congratulations and keep it up

My best regards Bogdan

...I am happy for a week. You are just great. I love the way you make those montages to still stay photography not Painting like. Colors and everything. Wonderful. I will mark you as a friend because I have to look at them at least 10 times to remember them good. Love from Bosnia.

Congratulations for your superb portfolio! I like the colors, style, lighting. Very nice shoots. Cheers form Switzerland. Fabrice

Hi! I?m from Argentina.... I love your work very much! especially kids! Good Luck..

Flor

What Jock seems to be telling you (and others don't) is that some of your images live, they scream and dig deep in the rare vein of authentic expression. Others simply don't. Both types look good, but only the former matter.

Tienes un portfolio impresionante y un talento enorme. Mi mas sinceras felicitaciones.

Saludos.

You have what can only be called an "amazing portfolio". Beautiful images, just beautiful. So creative, an unmistakable, original style. db

Hi like you work. Find your ratings of other people photos focus at times on just a few individuals. Nothing wrong with that. However I get the sense that in the case that you focus on one person that these ratings are not not always reflective of the photo, but of the photographer. Maybe that's just my impression. Ratings are important to the PN site.

Hey Gundega, i'm back with a new comment, i've been on your portofolio several times before and browsed through your photos, i really enjoyed my time here, i write this comment because i've read an article about you in PHOTO Magasine wich i buy here in Romania and i was really impressed to find out about the way you visualise life, i like it a lot that you care much about your familly. But before i've read this magasine i had the ideea to save all of your photos one day when i'll have the time in a folder on my computer so that i'll be able to show my kids 20-30 years from now how art looked like when i was young. Hope that doesen't bother you... Thank you very much for shareing theese wonderfull works with us, this is a place in wich i will always return with pleasure

My best regards Gavrus Bogdan

Great portfolio, your photos are original and beautiful. My congratulations.

you have many excellent pictures in your portfolio.. I just wonder why this picture was chosen as PoW as you have many many other much better pictures!

Having viewed your entire portofolio I must say that you have a unique style, I enjoyed watching you photographs alot and found them inspiring! Keep up the good work! :)

Best Regards Rasmus

My words are never enough..even numbers also as well..I better not give a numbers on your works..because..I adore you to much..I think you are the one who better give your constructive critiques and comments to my portfolio..I am just a beginner that admired your works...thank you for sharing it on PN...What an inspiration works you've done..I wish I could say more....Greetings from Bali Indonesia..Antoine

What a Wonderful Portfolio! I love the antique quality of your images. The still lifes, the portraits, the nudes are all just wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing them with us all. You are an inspiration!

You are a true artist and I am envious and inspired... Regina

nice work truely inspired me thanks

What an amazing collection ... I was breathless seeing some of those shots ... My Salutes, Gundega ... You are a true artist ... Very very nice portfolio indeed ...

Really good work for me i must to go more deeply and slowly analysing this tremendous ART work. f.

Jock Sturges created his own images but he didn't create the controversy surrounding those images. It is interesting that Mr. Enyinwa pointed out that if you lived in the U.S. you would know who Mr. Sturges was. "What makes him financially successful, unfortunately, based on his advice to you, is the very thing he should loathe, that is, the built-in American taste for scandal" Note that Mr Enyinwa isn't commenting on the art but the sensationalism. I don't know if Mr. Enyinwa is American or not, but he has perfectly assimilated and perpetuated that "taste".

You have a GREAT imagination... Very dark imagination, but you make it work wonderfully. Your photographs are simply breathtaking... you are quite an inspiration!!!

congratulations.

in my opinion the BEST i have seen so far. thanks

You have so beautifuly photos in yours portfolio...Excellent...Excellent work...Greetings from Montenegro, old/new country in Europa and i will come back with pleasure...

one of the best portfolios out there - i am glad i found it.... iespecially like your shoot with various themes - in particular 'balerina'

Wow..

Dear Gundega: I have fallen for a picture of yours called "Dolls". It is a little girl played by a grown woman holding up a doll. It is possible to buy a copy. I am a photographer, not a rich collector, but would love to have a print of that black & white.-- Bruce, brucescameras@earthlink.net

I am a big fan of your work. Your photography is 180 degrees from mine and I guess I'm being attracted by the oppositeness of it.

one of the best... probably the best portfolio i?ve seen !

Love your portfolio. Your pictures have a very whimsical quality to them, as if you've documented a land of fairies and pixies. Not all pics, but a lot of them are like that. I love the surreal colors you use in many of them, as well as the interesting "makeup". Look forward to seeing much more of your work.

i like your picture because i love saudek http://www.saudek.com/

I was going to write that your work is very reminiscent of Jan Saudek, but Viktor beat me to it. Anyway, I'm a big fan of your work. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful... Your portfolio is interesting and varied. Every photograph is beautiful. You are able to draw so much from your subjects. Thank you for sharing your photographs with us. Dan

I like your portfolio, really pieces of art! Regards, Mirek.

i do my best, to change the world of photography!

Amazing art, Saudek-style maybe, but he ain't do no broken dolls in pain. Do you paint too? with so much to express...It seems you are quite in contact with your darker side, maybe you are unconsciously trying to 'own your own shadow' (C. Jung). Today you made a new fan!

Yes Saudek is one of my favourite authors....i do digital painting on my photos using photoshop.

hola, wonderful work, a lot of art i would love to learn how you did some of your photos i will try to contact you soon, all the best and congratulations.

Eduardo

Gundega

I just discovered your portfolio (there are so many photographers here on Photonet...). And I am very happy: so strong, so full of beautifull images. And such a strong and original creativity, showing a true artist

Excelente portafolio!...ARTE!!!...Saludos!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVIESkZuN0

Very very impressed, thank you...

I LOVID YOUR FOTOS

work wonderfully, nice vision. A really goog artist photo, continued for my inspiration congratulations al tess

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

Dear friend, last Saturday night, my wife and I, had a big incident with our car (head-on collision), and we are alive for miracle: anyway, these not good moments, become also good moments! indeed, in these occasions, we can understand that life is so breakable, for not being happy every day to awaken, drink a coffee, to smile, to make love and other simple things, to meet people and, why not, to do photographs! For doing these things we don?t need a lot of money and power: we need only our life and the capacity for surprise of simple things. I have had a big gift, for this Xmas and the New Year, that is to say, I?m alive! and now, I know, I?ll love more life! My dear friend! I wish to you the same thing, namely, the ability to transform the accidents of life in happiness to live better and to give the proper value to your life and to that of other! Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!....Ciaomau!

this was really a good message!

I like very much "we are not cold", "jan", "8 past 8". I think you should copy this strategy of more natural approach to your photos of models or woman which for now are often with bit stiff body movements and face expressions. Sometimes the graphic side overtake the photograph too, but this is just my opinion.

Bravo. Thanks for sharing with us. Very best regards

I HAVE TO SAY YOUR IMAGES TOOK MY BRATHY AWAY.... WHEN I SAW YOUR NAME IT INTRIGUED ME.. SINCE I DONT COME ACCROSS MANY LATVIANS ON THE WEB.... AND IT MADE ME VERY HAPPY TO SEE THE TALENTED PERSON FROM MY HOME COUNTRY.... I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR WORK AND MY BEST WIHES ON CONQUERING THE WORLD.... YOU CAN DO IT WITH YOUT IMAGES... LIELS PALDIES PAR BRINISKIGAJAM BILDEM.... ILZE

Excellent portfolio. Bravo

I just wanted to say that I've never seen a portfolio that moved me like this one does.

There are pictures that I can recall in my head that will always be amazing, but as far as overall work... you blew me away. I just wanted to say that.... ...

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ok i'm done.

hello gundega,

you have an amazing portfolio. so many beautys.

I have enjoyed reviewing your portfolio. What impresses me most is your consistent improvement. The work was strong from the beginning, but I really believe that over the years it has become more mature and creative; both technically and conceptually. Good luck! molly

Absolutly outstanding portfolio! So emotional, touching and master-piece work! Thank you for sharing... Dina

brilliant gallery

Your gallery is amazing, i enjoyed looking at every photo that u have in your portofolio!

All the best regards, Cris.

Fantastic gallery. You are very talented. I love the processing on your photos.

I like your vision. You have a unique & interesting portfolio.

No words can describe perfection, i can´t find no words to describe your photos!

Hi,

I love your work, I find it such a compliment when I see people that have looked at your work and mine.

Truly inspiring work. I have so much to learn.

Regards

Branden

increible portfolio, merecida disticion. Gracias!!!

I discovered your portfolio looking your impressive photo of the week. It's wonderful, really a pleasure for eyes and mind! Thank you for sharing! Ciao. P.

Hi, Your portfolio is a work of art from the hands of real artist. This is simply stunning. Your style and being able to be consistent in handling it is superb. I love watching your work. Every image is a gift to watch and enjoy. Thanks. Kurt

Your portfolio is very inspiring! Hundreds of wonderful images. Thank you for sharing them!

Loved your portfolio. You certainly have an eye for photographic art. You're a true inspiration!

Jerry Johnson

love your images!

great portofolio!

I see your Work , It was enjoyable for me. You have Nice photo by very good composition , very good edit , nice color and nice b&w tone .I love your B&W Portrait . Congratulation , You have A Great Portfolio .Thanks for sharing...

Best Regards hsp

Excellent work, very strong - especially the kids - beautiful, haunting. The photo of the week and the story behind it led me to your portfolio. Really enjoyed seeing your images. Best wishes. Dana

I thought your pics were interesting but I wondered about one thing...why do the kids all look so sad? I wouldn't think that they actually are since they seem to be more than willing to participate so my guess is that it was your choice to make them look sad. If that's true, why?

Compliments

right-brain photos..full of emotions

This is what I call classic..

I can't find words that could only in small piece say what I felt here...what I feel everytime I visit your porftolio...love? Adore? You're my muse of inspirations!

I am agree with other commentators. Its outstanding and one of the best portfolios I have seen. Congrat. You are a real photographer and of course an artist.Best regards Väino Aus/Sweden/Estonia.

is beautiful !

Great job !!!!!!!

Keep up !!!

Cheers

You are a Magnifficent Photographer, your port leaves me almost speechless. fantastic job!

A hard work made a very nice portfolio and great colors, congratulations ! Roxana.

Dear Gundega Dege,

I just want to tell you that your all your fotos are amazing! You do a great job!

Greetings

Marlene

Very impressive portfolio. Very strong pictures. I like your style...

I am a huge fan of your work. I visit your portfolio often and will continue to do so. One day I hope to have as beautiful a portfolio as yours.

You have a wonderful portfolio. I really love it and admire your work. You have so many great pictures. I selected some for my favorites. I hope to see more. David