The Conductor
by Patrick Witz
Title
The Conductor
Artist
Patrick Witz
Medium
Photograph - Prints On Paper Or Canvas
Description
The Conductor resembles the grand flair of Maestro Leopol Stokowski conducting the Hollywood Bowl Philharmonic Orchestra. Envision the conductor directing an orchestra made up of a horde of various insects to play "Flight of the Bumble Bee". A framed photo of The Conductor was selected for auction to benefit Sacramento's PBS TV station KVIE in September 2012 and sold, generating a nice donation. Copyright image by Patrick Witz
This Image Has Been Featured at:
* Insects-Garden...07/27/15
* 500 Views..04/23/15
* 10 Plus Favorites..03/11/2015
* Artists Best Five..10/06/2012
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October 10th, 2011
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Comments (51)
Jennifer Robin
Congratulations on being selected from hundreds of images to feature this week in the group - INSECTS- Garden Visitors!
Mariola Bitner
Congratulations on your outstanding artwork! It has been chosen to be FEATURED in the group “500 VIEWS.”
Jennifer Robin
Congratulations on 2nd place in group INSECTS- Garden visitors logo contest. Well done!
Lingfai Leung
It reminds me the conductor appearing in the "Fantasia". Lovely silhouette and so interesting composted. It is my favorite in the Insect Contest - L/f here. Good Luck
Karen Cook
Not a big fan of 'creepy crawlies' but was visiting your galleries and I was captivated by this! What a perfect title for this capture. The silhouette is fantastic! I have added your name to my watch list..I don't want to miss a thing. I will be back to visit.
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
So funny! Congratulations on your win and the good you have done with this piece to support PBS!
Pamela Briggs-Luther
Congratulations on your fabulous first place win in ABC Group's contest I is for Insect. This image is fabulous and well deserving of this honor. It is being featured on ABC GROUP's home page!
Mary Myers
Quite an imaginative piece. I LOVE it. He is also a bug with a lot of hope--he's hungry and will take anything that comes along. The lighting is just perfect to set him right up front for the viewer. Great opportunity and you took it. Thank you for sharing a delightful piece.
Alexandria Weaselwise Busen
This one totally had my vote! Id be tickled pink if you added this among a few of you other awesome images to The Artistic Forager Group ; )
Patrick Witz replied:
Thank you Alexandria for the kind compliment... I wpuld be honored to include this to your group The Artistic Forager Group.
Kathy Sampson
This is so Flipping Cute!!!! It's funny how bugs make some of the best subjects to photograph! Their so animated, and their natural responses to a lens in their face make for some fantastic photos! Love This!!! V&F =)
Michael Pickett
WTG! It was fun watching the numbers go back and forth, voted on your image as well! Nice job
Patrick Witz replied:
Thank you Michael... glad you enjoyed the banter, sorry I missed that tug-a-war... congratulation to you sharing the win.. and thank you for the vote.
Donna Parlow
BTW I voted for this one
Patrick Witz replied:
Thank you Donna for the nice compliments, fav, the image and contest votes... I wasn't following the contest closely and was surprised by the vote count...thank you again.
Donna Parlow
Congratulations on tying for first place, even though the FAA thing says second. This is a great image and I love to see people with with no solicitation. Great job. v/f
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