Joe and the three wise men

30 Jan 2010

Joe and three wise men

Patience paid off and almost a year after I first worked on the initial image I got a permission to publish it. In the mean time I tried to place myself on the image and that was truly awful. Taking a fresh look at the image today after such long time I got some more ideas and played with it half a day to improve it.

Photo of the background guys, the wooden figurines of three wise men, was taken at Nico’s place in Gent. I took a whole series of these figurines under a christmas tree — different angles and focal points and so on. (First story with the figurines: Belgium – beautiful, but expensive to urinate.)

Photo of Joe was taken in 2008 as part of Joe.

Thanks to Joe for giving permission to publish the image.

12 responses so far

  1. Dee Daly

    superb!

  2. men-o-rama

    STUNNING
    BEAUTIFUL
    INTRIGUING
    ..ART!
    I haven’t gotten through all
    your posts yet, but I already
    applaude you: great work!

    Alexander

  3. Ranno

    Whooh, Alexander!!! Thanks a lot for Your good words! Being a big fan of Your site, I really appreciate it :)

  4. Ranno Rätsep

    Thank You Dee! I appreciate it!

  5. Mike Est

    great work

  6. Ranno Rätsep

    Thanks Mike!

  7. Julien Watelet

    That's a great piece of art Ranno! you're truely an artist!

  8. Ranno Rätsep

    Thanks Julien! I sometimes get carried away with photoshop :)

  9. Dee Daly

    pls keep giving! us the art.

  10. 44Edward

    WOW beautiful work; so simple and yet impressive

  11. 44Edward

    love your blog and writings; so detailed; makes you feel as if you were there

  12. ranno

    Thank You for the intoxicating overdose of the kind comments Edward. I really appreciate them all!

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