Constantine, I want to congratulate you for the «slide show» I just finished looking at and for the more than interesting meditation on the «value» of colour on photography. The photographs themselves, each one of them, show the master hiding behind the camera! Regards, José Morais

Thanks for sharing. It was like walking through a guided tour of every photoworthy moment a day had to offer.

Framing, timing, lighting and...oh the color, what great work...

The fact that those pictures are equivalent to such a small fragment of a second makes them intriguing, though most of a good picture is luck (i belive) to frame that luck is something that I find brilliant and when is a work in colors then is just a fragment of time as it is, framed forever and turned into a eternal second, even if it is so insignificant it will always be there in a baloon hanging by a thin silk rope wich if it's pulled brakes inmediatly but if not, it is there for ever flotaing. Congratulations for creating such cautivous eternal spaces.

I think u can delete some photos from this Essay.there are to much photos.

On an ordinary Wednesday morning you allowed me to stop and look.

It good to know you are out there. You do not imitate. You create a direct link between you and the world through your camera. As a professional photographer I more and more experience that in my own work, but you have already opened that door much wider. Congratulations Frank http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngudu/sets/

It is interesting to note that you refer to losing yourself at mid-life with black and white imagery...I find that you just changed it to color...they still are black and white at heart...we all must find a way to keep shooting with out losing our way...I do it everyday.

These are such beautiful photos that I can't help loving them,especially the light and shadow. "American clolor",you change the view of America in a Chinese universiy student's eyes.

After viewing this stunning body of work then reading some of the comments below, I am amazed that some people can't simply enjoy and celebrate this man's work. Did these people not notice the Magnum logo up the lefthand corner?

In this silence of watching your pictures and hearing what you tell me about yourself, many stories come too my mind. And i was wandering and dreaming away. What a pleasure it brings to me. Thank you a lot. The combination of watching and listening works wonderfull for me.

I admire your work. You succeed to get the same ambiancy and emotions that we can find in B&W in colour. It is for me a "tour de force". I would like to see the result in industrial and work ambiancies. What do you think of all the criticisms around the M8 ? Is it worth the price ?

Constantine, Full Circle. Photography has finally come full circle. Pixels have sidetracked most of us from the pure art of photographing. Shooting film doesn't make much sense anymore for most of us. You've proven that we can have the best of both worlds... The eye. What kind of life does it take to have an eye like yours? Compassionate, sensitive, risking, creative and extremely patient.... Your sense of composition, timing, frame management and color pallete move us far beyond the expected visual experience. Thanks for doing this. For sharing your vision with ours.... and for communicating how you go about it. Thanks again, Paul

From the first time I saw the "Greek Portfolio" in my early twenties till now with the "American Color" in my middle fifties I've been trying to explain the key that opens such a magic in your photos. I once wrote that the photographs are like the streamlets of water on both sides of the street on a rainy day. They bring with them "things" from somewhere else and take with them "things" to somewhere else. Deep in my heart, this comes to be absolute with your photos. Your photos travel their viewer to a world of imagination and then to a world of reality, back and forth, like a penullum ticking along the locii of the moments of our lives. A Great Thank You for the magic moments you have given us so far. God bless you. Dimitris V, Georgopoulos Athens, Greece

I love it.

Beautiful. Sad I couldn't download for a friend or to see again.

I think each nation has its own distinguishable colors which somehow reflect unique mood/life of that nation. The "Amrican Color" photographs certainly capture the quintessential American colors.

Congratulations. This is a perfect work, I think that the perfect color is only with Kodak or Fuji film... but the M8 is incredible. Thank´s for your photo and your style, other point of vision for my world/work. When you come to Spain and make a exhibition?. You will be welcome, you don´t doubt it