i go away and come back again and wonder why i ever roamed! thomas automatically demands yr upmost respect and diligence and yet such a lofty personage is the kindest and friendliest you'll find on flickr light shade texture line humour all the concerns you might have with a camera, nay your eyes! all the concerns are… Read more

i go away and come back again and wonder why i ever roamed! thomas automatically demands yr upmost respect and diligence and yet such a lofty personage is the kindest and friendliest you'll find on flickr light shade texture line humour all the concerns you might have with a camera, nay your eyes! all the concerns are addressed here... i came to him through puddles and i go away in tears! fantastic!

My tribute gallery to Piblo: www.flickr.com/ph... There are too many things you could make a gallery of in this stream - so I made my life easier by picking one aspect that I particularly admire: how your work so often makes an edgy, unlikely visual balance work. It feels like a set of very personal, idiosyncratic c… Read more

My tribute gallery to Piblo: www.flickr.com/ph... There are too many things you could make a gallery of in this stream - so I made my life easier by picking one aspect that I particularly admire: how your work so often makes an edgy, unlikely visual balance work. It feels like a set of very personal, idiosyncratic compositional guidelines ... I can't work them out exactly, but I know that they work, and I'd like to learn from them. Piblo's stream feels very calm and methodical, quiet and thoughtful, with a real sense of organic discovery over time. I particularly enjoy how I find myself going into the image at one level, only to find a further depth - another reflection inside a frame, a shadow, a sunlit corner, which makes me reassess the whole. I find meditative subtlety and such a quiet approach as yours more often in women's photostreams ... and realise at this point that almost all of my galleries so far have been of female photographers. Really glad to add this one - your approach teaches me a lot.

as the greenmonster said, he spreads light everywhere he is, and the light was the first thing i noticed in piblokto's photography, the light, it's pure, and there is warmth and clarity - whereas it is clear it is not intrusive or blinding. it is not hiding either. it is just light. only shown what is already there, no… Read more

as the greenmonster said, he spreads light everywhere he is, and the light was the first thing i noticed in piblokto's photography, the light, it's pure, and there is warmth and clarity - whereas it is clear it is not intrusive or blinding. it is not hiding either. it is just light. only shown what is already there, nothing superfluous added. light, seen, photographed and thus captured, but not imprisoned. Preserved, but not killed. a sort of light whose delicacy is embedded in a persistent presence in a very - sort of understating sense which is maybe why piblokto's photography is so unobviously strong.

I am happy to have written the first testimonial for piblokto, but I hope more will follow. Piblokto is a photographer with his own style. Trying to understand his photo world, I see I have changed my view on photography in many ways. I don't like only very contrasted, saturated or dark photos anymore. I can see tha… Read more

I am happy to have written the first testimonial for piblokto, but I hope more will follow. Piblokto is a photographer with his own style. Trying to understand his photo world, I see I have changed my view on photography in many ways. I don't like only very contrasted, saturated or dark photos anymore. I can see that a pale desaturated photo could be great too. Thinking about the right word to describe his photography, it is "delicate". Delicate shadows, delicate colors, delicate forms, delicate elegance, delicate humor. The other word is "light". Piblokto is virtuous in catching light (maybe because he's a Scandinavian?). I would describe with the same words - "delicate" and "light" - piblokto as a person. His Flickr friends are lucky to have him as a friend. He always gives elegant feedback, leaving delicate and often humorous (without irony or sarcasm) comments. He spreads light anywhere he is. But he is also confident and he can be trusted. I know I can rely on piblokto. He is a great friend. To make the long story short - meeting piblokto and his photography makes you happy.