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THE RGB ISSUE ISSUE 11 / FALL 2011

Rolfe Horn

Neil Craver

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RED 05 GREEN 31 BLUE 53 NEIL CRAVER 22 ROLFE HORN 42

Fotoblur Magazine
Issue 11 Editor & Publisher: Lance Ramoth Copy Editor: Tiffany Altieri Email: contact@fotoblur.com Web: fotoblur.com/magazine ISSN: 1944-0006 Printed on demand by MagCloud fotoblur.magcloud.com Images published in Fotoblur Magazine are the sole property of the contributing photographers and are copyrighted material. No image may be reproduced without the express written permission of its owner. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form, electronic or mechanical without the prior written consent of the publisher. 2011 Fotoblur Magazine. All Rights Reserved

Themes

Contributors
Makkai Bence, Marcus Bjrkman, Gwenal Bollinger, Serena Bowles, Andreea Chiru, Kittiwut Chuamrassamee, Mukti Echwantono, Dave Engledow, Luca Ferdinandi, Eric Frey, Zurab Getsadze, Ruolan Han, Stephen Jackson, Rob Jenkins, Hengki Lee, Harry Lieber, Jorge Maia, Nima Moghimi, Robert Moran, Toshitaka Nakanishi, Shigehiro Ono, Perakman, Tiziana Pielert, Santosh Rajgarhia, Jim Robertson, Aoki Ryoma, Andrej Safhalter, Ade Santora, Paolo Scarano, Erik Schottstaedt, Mont Sherar, Gaurav Singh, Tan Hock Teck, Pavel Tereshkovets, Aubrey Tiosen, Ivana Todorovic, Zoltan Toth, Sharon Wish, Yuriy Yurievich, Neil Craver, and Rolfe Horn

Featured Photographer

Guest Featured Photographer

Fotoblur Magazine is a unique publishing project created by the online photo community at fotoblur. com. Learn more at fotoblur.com/magazine Cover Photo Lumen by Chris Homan fotoblur.com/portfolio/chris_homan

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Gwenal Bollinger Tiziana Pielert Kittiwut Chuamrassamee Sharon Wish Luca Ferdinandi Jorge Maia Yuriy Yurievich Aoki Ryoma Jim Robertson Gaurav Singh Rob Jenkins Robert Moran Perakman Paolo Scarano

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Gwenal Bollinger - Passion In The Head

Tiziana Pielert - The Red Tulle

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Kittiwut Chuamrassamee - Blowing Bubble

Sharon Wish - Night Light

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Luca Ferdinandi - Inside Red

Jorge Maia - Symphony of Color

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Yuriy Yurievich - Sunchild

Yuriy Yurievich - Summergirl

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Jim Robertson - Chaos Theory

Aoki Ryoma - Ammonite

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Gaurav Singh - Unfrozen

Rob Jenkins - Kaleidoscope

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Perakman - 3 Musketeers

Robert Moran - Watching the Camel Races - Tenere Desert

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Paolo Scarano - The Rusty Door

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Neil Craver
OmniPhantasmic
This project is meant to be consumed with your emotions, and not simply perceived with your sense organs. I wanted a transcendental meaning behind this series. Not only with the use of chromatics and aesthetics but with my intended focus being on the philosophical theories; I wanted a subliminal composition to create an undertow of messages to stress the strong influences of unconscious elements affecting and driving peoples lives. With the creation of a strong undercurrent of incommunicable thoughts, this will be the stage for illuminating the subconscious intellect into absolute perception. The visual aesthetics are purely symbolic in their thought application and structure, with decomposing forests of broken memory connections and the tumbling of vertigo into the correct positions of phenomenal reality. The shallowness of the area above the horizon line indicates the division of the limited amount of information consciously perceivable (atmosphere-above) and the larger mass storage of all the sense information, rationalizations, and prejudices of the subconscious below (hydrosphere-below). The nexus of contingents between drowning and floating, falling and flying, dying and living are some of the main unphysical, intangible themes in this series. What you can perceive and process is an extremely finite portion of what you receive from the physical environment. To truly grasp the vexing questions of your inner facilities, you must open yourself to a flood of unrestricted information. Once the excavation is started, the illumination of the self imposed restraints of values, ideas, and moral codes will dissolve. When the subconscious floods pass societys imprisonment, starting a process of uncontaminated awareness, a penetrating understanding will unfold!

Featured Photographer Neil Craver

As a youth in North Carolina I began my path as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor. My motivation grew from my interest of psychophysical effects of chroma. My creations are the exploration of my inner facilities in the pursuit of contemporary knowledge expressing original thoughts.

Fotoblur Portfolio http://www.fotoblur.com/portfolio/neilcraver Website http://www.photonorganon.com Contact neilcraver@aol.com

Neil Craver - Pleasurable Terrors of Levitation

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Featured Photographer Neil Craver

Featured Photographer Neil Craver

Neil Craver - Dismantling Connections

Neil Craver - Phantasmic Cycle

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Featured Photographer Neil Craver

Featured Photographer Neil Craver

Neil Craver - Self Reformations

Neil Craver - Communicate with Chemicals

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Featured Photographer Neil Craver

Featured Photographer Neil Craver

Neil Craver - Splendid Rupture

Neil Craver - Solitary Wave

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Green

Tan Hock Teck Harry Lieber Mukti Echwantono Zoltan Toth Andrej Safhalter Dave Engledow Makkai Bence Marcus Bjrkman Serena Bowles

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Tan Hock Teck - After Rain | Escape

Harry Lieber - Up - Into The Light

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Mukti Echwantono - Three

Zoltan Toth - Haunted House

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Andrej Safhalter - Connection III

Dave Engledow - Rush

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Makkai Bence - Happiness All Way Down

Marcus Bjrkman - Level One

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Serena Bowles - Green is the Colour

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Rolfe Horn
I like to see the beauty in the world.
I know that when Im photographing, nothing else matters. Time seems to stop, as if the past and future disappear, and only the present exists. With the exception of the scene in front of my lens, the world vanishes as if nothing else matters. I believe our creativity can be discovered by experiencing new situations because the mind is inherently creative. Each time we encounter something different in a scene, our thought processes come up with new ideas about what we see. When we explore those ideas in depth, we discover other creative ideas which are much different than our first thoughts. I like to see the beauty in the world. My parents are avid collectors of Asian art, so my upbringing into the visual arts was that of simple beauty, almost like a Haiku poem, which definitely influenced me. Also, because I work traditionally with my photographs, I like to convey the world in a way that is not what we can see with the waking eye. By using black and white, reality is once removed, and by adding time exposures, it is removed once more. Every scene Ive encountered actually happened, yet the final print looks nothing like what we see in everyday life. Photography is a universal language. There are no borders. It gives us hope, gives us dreams, and makes us curious. I once was told that life makes photography, which I countered, that photography makes life! I was 21 years old at the time and I have since come to the realization that both are correct.

Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Rolfe Horn was born in Walnut Creek, California, in 1971. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooks Institute in the fall of 1996, where he was named the most outstanding graduate of his class in recognition of his accumulated achievements in landscape and digital photography. In 1998 Rolfe decided to give up commercial photography in order to assist renowned fine arts photographer Michael Kenna. Working for Kenna allowed Rolfe to concentrate all his efforts in the fine arts. Since 2001 Rolfe has ventured out on his own, finding his own gallery representation. Rolfe continues to live and work as an artist and photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Website http://www.f45.com/

Rolfe Horn - Study 54, 680/24 Interchange

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Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Rolfe Horn - Schooner Gultch

Rolfe Horn - Seaweed Farm

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Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Rolfe Horn - Spillway, Study 2

Rolfe Horn - Creek, Study 2

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Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Rolfe Horn - Satomi Park, Study 1

Rolfe Horn - Redwoods, Study 11

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Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Featured Photographer Rolfe Horn

Rolfe Horn - Halfdome and Merced River

Rolfe Horn - Senkanmon

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Blue

Ruolan Han Aubrey Tiosen Erik Schottstaedt Nima Moghimi Stephen Jackson Santosh Rajgarhia Andreea Chiru Mukti Echwantono Zurab Getsadze Ivana Todorovic Pavel Tereshkovets Mont Sherar Gaurav Singh Kittiwut Chuamrassamee Ade Santora Eric Frey Shigehiro Ono Toshitaka Nakanishi Hengki Lee

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Ruolan Han - Floating Melody

Aubrey Tiosen - Lydia

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Erik Schottstaedt - White Head Shark

Nima Moghimi - Diving in Dark Days of Life

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Stephen Jackson - Under Blue Sky

Santosh Rajgarhia - Messenger of Peace

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Andreea Chiru - Feathers

Mukti Echwantono - Fundamentally Loathsome

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Zurab Getsadze - Window

Ivana Todorovic - Creative Light

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Pavel Tereshkovets - Amazing!

Mont Sherar - Double Bubble Trouble Gum

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Gaurav Singh - Efflorescence

Kittiwut Chuamrassamee - Day and Night

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Ade Santora - Circle and Shade

Stephen Jackson - The Watchers

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Eric Frey - Blue Dream

Shigehiro Ono - The Void

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Hengki Lee - To The Limit

Toshitaka Nakanishi - Grey Morning

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Contributors
Makkai Bence Marcus Bjrkman Gwenal Bollinger Serena Bowles Andreea Chiru Kittiwut Chuamrassamee Mukti Echwantono Dave Engledow Luca Ferdinandi Eric Frey Zurab Getsadze Ruolan Han Stephen Jackson Rob Jenkins Hengki Lee Harry Lieber Jorge Maia Nima Moghimi Robert Moran Toshitaka Nakanishi Shigehiro Ono Perakman Tiziana Pielert Santosh Rajgarhia Jim Robertson Aoki Ryoma Andrej Safhalter Ade Santora Paolo Scarano Erik Schottstaedt Mont Sherar Gaurav Singh Tan Hock Teck Pavel Tereshkovets Aubrey Tiosen Ivana Todorovic Zoltan Toth Sharon Wish Yuriy Yurievich Neil Craver Rolfe Horn 38 39 6 40 60 8, 67 34, 61 37 10 70 62 54 58, 69 17 73 33 11 57 18 72 71 19 7 59 15 14 36 68 20 56 65 16, 66 32 64 55 63 35 9 12, 13 22-29 42-51

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