Magic

Posted by Michael Rawluk (Williams Lake, BC, Canada) on 12 January 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture.

I was shooting a magician the other night, looking at the manual dexterity that it takes to pull off some of those stunts, and was amazed at the inventiveness of the human mind. Also by it depends up a gullible viewer.
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Comments (11)

Mindy from United States

fun capture. love the framing, color and balance.

12 Jan 2008 7:19am

Michael Skorulski from Cigel, Slovakia

Nice sharp shot, Michael. Inventive idea for a subject.

12 Jan 2008 8:20am

Daroru from Amagasaki, Japan

Really strong 'punch' to this image; black background really effective here.

12 Jan 2008 1:04pm

Harald from Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Perfect !!!

12 Jan 2008 2:44pm

Teresa Durães from Montijo, Portugal

like very much the colors and the idea! Great photo

12 Jan 2008 4:35pm

Kevin at OrganicPIX.com from Dallas, United States

Great colors. This would have been a good posting for Valentine's Days.

12 Jan 2008 6:02pm

Wolfgang Prigge from Canada

The red, white and black make this a very elegant photo...

12 Jan 2008 8:11pm

Rebecca from Leicester, United Kingdom

Truly excellent image. I love the strong colours, contrast and the whole composition. Magic tricks, hmmmm…. Please forgive my rambling, and do ignore it if it bothers you, but it's the debater in me again, can't resist a good discussion, I'm afraid.....and this is a good subject worthy of discussion, imho.... I appreciate your text, but am not sure I'd agree with the word "gullible" here for us viewers, really. It seems to suggest something less than honourable on the part of the magician (and stupidity on the part of us viewers). Not that I can defend all magicians, nor want to, but at least the magician (used here in the generic sense) is being honest that at the end of the day everything we see them pull off is a magic trick, rather than trying to pass off something fake as real (unlike, unfortunately, quite many other tradesmen/practitioners we have in society nowadays). Some of these tricks (not sure about cards, though…I’m definitely not an expert here) take enormous skill and hard work to undertake, and I do admire the years of training and practice (as I do the training and practice involved in many other noble skills and professions) that the really good magicians have undergone to be able to do such tricks that most of us ordinary ‘laymen' would fail miserably at, at least initially!....... But undoubtedly, in the photographic sense, this is a truly superb capture, Michael.

13 Jan 2008 12:18am

John Maslowski from Dallas, PA, United States

This is a very creative shot. I love the red colors and the way you composed this image. Very nice work.

13 Jan 2008 2:30am

Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States

There is nothing quite like a great magician and a really gullible audience! Lol! Great shot!

13 Jan 2008 2:07pm

Jen from Alpharetta, United States

Love magic acts...great focus and the sense of anticipation

13 Jan 2008 2:35pm

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