Comments on: Some great portraits

Some great portraits

JohnR — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:26:45 -0800

"Tempe decided to leave Tibet inorder to continue his religious training. He had been in Dharamsala about a month and was actually planning to begin a life-long solitary retreat the day after this photo was taken. He said his retreat was not to escape from the world but to transform his mind so he could serve more effectively in future lifetimes." Check out Phil Borges' Tibetan photos.

By: Mr Bluesky

Mr Bluesky — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:30:54 -0800

My first reaction is that the beauty lies more in their faces than the overly sanitized tweaking of Phil's portrait style. Sorry for being a bit negative as the subject matter speaks for itself, just a little too Cosmo vs. Katmandu

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:11:21 -0800

Well said Mr Bluesky.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:12:03 -0800

They all creep me out (and not just the tibetan ones). WTF?! Quite an odd style he's got.

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:21:41 -0800

I like this a great deal. He and DaShiv should go head-to-head on a Make Me Beautiful fight night.

By: RedEmma

RedEmma — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:07:22 -0800

beautiful stuff, IMO.

By: silence

silence — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:07:47 -0800

yeah, i felt a bit mean spirited when i looked at the link before seeing this page, so I'm lad it wasn't just me that felt the pictures were somehow distasteful. It struck me that these people had been completely sanitized and photoshopped to fit some kind of strange corporate image. They look like they'd do well in an image library somewhere, where they could be used to decorate someone's annual report. Or on a motivational poster.

By: silence

silence — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:10:44 -0800

er. that should have been "glad", obviously.