Since Then
by Rebecca

Comment:
Delicious. Bit sticky (could be the hairspray), but fine nonetheless.

What?
by gsal

Comment:
Brilliant. And masterful 'seam' too; it's there but not there. Remarkable, given that the vertical perspective changes just a little bit.

You must be a teacher, Gunnar? Taking photographs at a school is otherwise problematic these days.

301_1614.jpg
by salmiakki

Comment:
Lovely. Absolutely beautiful tones, like slightly faded ink.

Some Trees
by Rebecca

Comment:
This title is brilliant! Your little series of three deliciously delinquent images is terrific, and this offhand title proves it was no accident. Bravo!

The Distant Shore
by Germaine

Comment:
I love plastic LB shots. It's like reading a book with wet pages ... difficult and a little bit frustrating, but ultimately rewarding.

lensless photography on dpc
by krnodil

Comment:
I just found this! Congratulations on your noble gesture, easily worthy of Sydney Carton.

I just love looking at the votes. 57 x 1s, and 67 x 2s & 3s. Do you realize that that means nearly 60% of the voters thought ... er, thought ... well, thought nothing at all, presumably. Can you imagine being like that? What must the world look like to such people?

ETA: All Our Yesterdays is a beautiful title.

Message edited by author 2009-02-12 06:37:26.

Commuters
by Rebecca

Comment:
I like this because of its willful negligence.

There are far too many photographs that look just like photographs should: nice, organized, sharp, and lamentably coherent. Photographs accommodating only one possible interpretation. Photographs that are ultimately more about the photographer than anything else. Photographs that can be repeated by any hack, and that unfortunately so often are.

This photograph is none of that. It speaks instead of impulsiveness and the exhilaration of a moment that cannot be repeated, by this photographer or any other. And yet perhaps it's not so slap-dash after all? Everything that needs to be in it is in it, and all that doesn't isn't. The tilt is good because it's apt ... imagine how ill-suited it would be if it were meticulously level! And the focus, which in this case is no more than a mumbled threat, is perfect too. It provides just enough illumination for the viewer to navigate by, but not enough to be blinding.

The result is an ambiguous and unfinished image that can provide long minutes of exercise for the restless mind. And even then it's not done; no 'resolution' is ever going to be correct and final, so when you've finished looking at it you can start all over again and have a whole new experience!

objets d'art
by Jutilda

Comment:
"On these rich days
of too much heat and too much light
the steady hum of my fan
reminds me of Asian summers
when I was a child and lived in
a high-ceilinged, white-washed house."

- from The Electric Fan, by Victoria Brush.

The movement of the fan elevates the other objects into spoor; evidence of passage. Not a still life, but a stilled life.

Three men and a dog
by Zigomar

Comment:
Terrific photo & strange, compelling story. Only thing I didn't believe was the name that the author gives to Samuel's brother. No one is called that!

I found Richard C Suarez at AuthorsDen.com ΓΆ€“ he is a very unusual guy!

As for you, you're a nutbar, M. I admire that very much.

misdirection
by krnodil

Comment:

Originally posted by krnodil: ... maybe it is still mating, but I can't imagine it's particularly effective.

Well, as a matter of fact .... no, never mind.