If I Forget.... by dphoadley
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Description
"If I should forget thee, O Jerusalem! let my right hand* forget its cunning! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not, if I not set Jerusalem above my chiefest joy!" Psalm 137: 5-6
dphoadley is reading Psalms at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount with his grandson Matan-David.
Figures from left to right: P3 Business Man, Dolly by Gerald Day, P4 Nude Man (Dork) textured with Arduino's Claudio Texture, and dressed with the P4 Tuxedo, P4 Nude Man (Dork) Morphed and Textured to look like dphoadley, P5 Casual Boy.
Rendered with no problem in Poser 5 (since all the figures are, by today's standards, essentially Lo-Res), and PostWorked in Photoshop.
Credits:
Momodot for supplying mye with MorphMan for the P4 Male (Dork).
Pitklad for giving us Domus, a revamped version of the P4 Male (Dork). Without these two and their morphs, I'd never have been able to morph Dork's face tolook like mine.
Xurge at RDNA for making me the Greek Fisherman's Cap.
Trekkigirrrl for the Open Book freebie.
Gerald Day for the Dolly figure. I was going to use the P5 girl, but she doesn't come with any frocks, just jeans and T-shirts, shorts and bathing suits. Not suitable dress for a Holy Site like the western Wall.
If some should think that this image is incongruent with the style of some of my other images, then understand this -I am a deeply spiritual man, but I am not a prude. When prudery enters the picture, then true righteousness tends to be obliterated.
*spelling corrected following Indoda's comment. This is what I mean by growing through crriticism. ;=)
Comments (38)
rainbows
Superb image, dphoadley. Evocative of many feelings. Diane.
momodot
Nice. Good group. Nice composition. My question is the shadow... have you tried different approaches to the shadows and chosen the one you like the best? The lighting on the figures and on the wall do not quite match up... putting the wall texture in the ambient "node" and throwing more light on the figures might make the figures shadows and wall fit better. You want an global light type effect but don't need a bunch of lights behind the wall throwing shadow so if you use a global set up you have to turn off the wall's shadow property. Sorry for the techy comment :)
Fidelity2
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. 5+. My Favorite.
Elcet
Very beautiful and original scene on a marvelous subject. Thanks a lot for sharing, I think that it is great and courageous today to show religious scenes in our too atheist world. Shalom, have a nice weekend, Edouard.
A_
very nice capture.
Boni
I really like the sentiment on this piece. I like it very much.
lior
בס"ד שה יתן לך ברכת אברהם לך ולזרעף עד עולם שנה םובה וחתימה טובה ממני ליאור
diannnoeora
That's beautiful! Oh, how I long to go there! Lovely to see a teachable moment being used so well.