Routine.
by romil

Comment:
well done Romil, congratulations!

Hair, the Musical
by markwiley

Comment:
congrats on double blue Mark!

life pulls on you and me
by jmritz

Comment:
I hope she gets better soon...

One Tooth George
by jagar

Comment:
wonderful, John!

The Push Mower and The Lawn
by Lydia

Comment:
congratulation, Lydia! Very nice!

Dispersion
by RKT

Comment:
very poignant story, to which we all can relate. I certainly can, having lost my 90 years old father a few months ago. Thank you.

Black Dogs Are Difficult To Photograph
by posthumous

Comment:
it's not an essay, it's a poem (of course!). And I like how it rhymes visually, with the photos, rather than sonically.

Zama Zama
by ubique

Comment:
the absence of people (owners and customers) in all photos but one is startling. It feels like they (owners) scraped, they built the stores, they put up the signs, they waited... and waited... They were really trying... And nobody came. So they gave up and left. The contrast of cheerful colors and emptiness is almost painful, especially for Africa where we learn of expect people, people everywhere. My only problem with this interpretation is the photo with Lover's hair dressing salon, I wish it was not there :)

The Secrecy of Shadows
by insteps

Comment:
beautiful photography, every photo stands firmly on its own. But in a series like this, we, the viewers, have an additional pleasure of tracing the stated theme in each of them. Like a good jazz improvisation, where every solo takes the theme and moves it in a new direction, sometimes very far, only to bring it back and pass it on.

Oldies but Goodies
by herfotoman

Comment:
of course it is not just the closeup that changes the perception, but the transitions from bright colors to dark and contrasty BW. Worked really well, sometimes it was so hard to believe it was the same image, I found myself going back and forth and checking it :). By the way, in the good old days Soviet propaganda used a similar trick regularly by taking a piece of colorful western footage and then fading it into BW, sometimes even into a negative, with suitably ominous soundtrack behind. We felt so sorry for you guys living in such hell behind a thin colorful facade :)