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              September 10, 2012
              Jon Lemon

              Amazing Void Earth Pilot Series

              Warsaw-based photographer Dominik Smialowski created this amazing photo series, titled “Pilot’s Melancholy,” using void landscapes and a single character, a pilot. The cinematic feel behind these frames is really compelling. Enjoy!

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              via [http://www.smialowski.net]

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              • http://twitter.com/studio126 Studio126

                That’s an interesting idea. I like the one’s where you can’t see his face better than when you can.

              • Simon Ouellet

                Ground control to Major Tom…

              • Xavier Burgin

                This is really awesome. I’m definitely digging the space suit. 

              • http://profiles.google.com/simon.lynchsae Simon Lynch

                AMAZING! nice find!

              • http://www.facebook.com/marios.forsos Marios Forsos

                Iceland.  One of the few truly breathtaking places in the world…

              • http://twitter.com/BenicioMurray Benicio Murray

                 One of the many breathtaking places in the world….

              • Antony Gomes

                sounds like prometheus’ mood.
                Awesome job

              • Nathan Mollison

                That last shot actually looks like it could be the same spot from the opening shots of Prometheus the film.

                Cool series.

              • http://www.facebook.com/megamello Francesco Meloni

                A nice example of how to make good pictures without being confined in the canonical rules (foot crops, straight horizons etc)…nice work!

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754554855 Edd Carlile

                fantastic series.

              • Delgadom6

                Awesome costume!

              • http://www.facebook.com/photopop Runolfur Gudbjørnsson

                Hmmm.. Odd.
                I don´t quite know what to make of this. To me it feels like its a bit to inspired by other images. My assistant did a project back in 2010 that is almost identical to this one, both shot in Iceland and both have the same pilot suit. According to the EXIF data on these files they are shot in 2011. Well for what its worth I think that Gisli´s output appeals more to  my taste… here is the series he made.
                http://www.gislidua.com/album/thelostastronaut?p=1&s=UA-20206120-1

              • Gabber_03

                This is not new….I have seen Gisli Dua’s pictures before and this serie feels like a copy paste of his idea and pictures. I agree with Runolfur.

              • Jürgen Kaspar

                these two series have enough to separate from each other – I think the root of Dominik series is the work of Gisli

                in the Podcast of Jeff Curto he quoted Hemingway as far as I remember something like “you can steal art as much you like, but be sure to make it better”  - and Dominik did this, in my point of view

                Jürgen

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