swing
by bvy

Comment:
If I had to reduce my favourites, of which I already have but a meagre few, to just one ... this would be the one. Thank you.

marchers
by 2mccs

Comment:
It's now more than two years since I first looked at this picture. I still think of it often. I actually do hear the thin and distorted marching music, broadcast through a cheap public address system, displaced slightly in time from what I'm seeing. As if the visuals and the audio have slipped slightly out of synch.

It's one of the tiny treasure trove of pictures on DPC that I most revere because it is so effortlessly evocative. It is unmistakably a picture from my own history, depicting an event I never attended at a place I have never been. And yet it is me. It is my history, my memory, my picture.

It's not a picture of a thing. It is what I said in the section of my original comment entitled "Documentary v Recollection". That is, it is an echo of a thing. And it's the echo that has the indelible meaning, and not the thing.

Everything that makes photographs magical is in this one. So rare, so perfect, so beautiful. Marla, thank you.

Message edited by author 2017-08-21 03:43:06.

blast
by 2mccs

Comment:
This is quite beautiful. I don't know why, or more accurately I couldn't say exactly why. Maybe that's why it's beautiful. I could look at this one the longest, and the most often. So 10. Thank you.

art lover
by tvsometime

Comment:
It feels cinematic to me. New wave cinema, to be specific. I know what happens next. No, I don't, but I do know it happens. How could it not? Thank you.

goth ornis
by Abra

Comment:
Impossible to dismiss this. Sacred ibis? It's a beautiful, startling picture in which the bird is redefined. Thank you.

step down with outside light
by mitalapo

Comment:
Lovely. Perfect weights and tones. Thank you.

being there
by mrbig65

Comment:
Yes. Simple & graphic. Beautifully balanced. It feels just right, doesn't it? Doesn't push, doesn't pull. Thank you.

ASL for?
by cutout

Comment:
You're always missed Jan, because when you take a break there is a hole here that nobody but you seems able to fill. So keep it filled, please? Anyway, how can you say it's most unsuccessful? It's merely finished in the last few places in a popular vote, and here that's a distinction that frequently means your work is either really bad or really good. Your stuff is really good much more often than it is really bad. And it's never really mediocre. If it was, your every entry would be celebrated. And you wouldn't want that. If that happened I'd have to tell you to take a short break.

offload
by NiallOTuama

Comment:
I love distractions. Distraction is the back door to curiosity, and curiosity is the front door to art. Keep doing this! Thank you.

Event
by RKT

Comment:
Crikey! This was my favourite before I got so bored with looking at clunky literalism that I went on to something far more stimulating (a cup of tea) and never came back. I assumed you'd win anyway without my help, because I assumed this challenge was about imagination, not the lack of it. Silly me, now I need more tea.