written in sand
by posthumous

Comment:
This is good. Because it has no certain meaning, it allows many. It's also filled with little rewards for the patient observer. My personal interpretation (at least today) is about Time. 10.

strange formations
by Alicia

Comment:
This is very good but alas, for me it's diminished by the footprint.

Gathering
by Germaine

Comment:
All seagulls (in fact all birds except chickens) are a little bit transparent G; it's just that ordinary lenses are incapable of seeing it.

I love plastic optics. I have, and wish for, no other.

• T A I G A •
by Bear_Music

Comment:
It DOES look like a bleak Siberian vista! Made me think of my No1 all-time favourite novel The Industry of Souls by the late Martin Booth. And as I've already hijacked your photograph I may as well tell you that Nos 2 & 3 on my list are To Kill a Mockingbird and Moby Dick.

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by benee

Comment:
You've melded light with focus beautifully here.

for Jon - Death is Not the End
by Retroesque

Comment:
Yes.

winter walk
by ErinM

Comment:

Originally posted by xion: Bloody hell! Seriously ... let me find some words ... this is good shit! I think this is the best shot I have seen in the thread.

The problem with my friend Az is that he has such damn fine artistic sensibility. He doesn't throw it about freely either, so I'd lap it up if I were thee.

Duck induced Vortex (10 of 31)
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
When I saw the thumb I assumed you'd stopped the world and spun the duck. Appearances can deceive.

Assignation
by Germaine

Comment:
Oh, clever! As in witty. Makes so much lovely room for the viewer to supply the backstory.

Chained Cellophane
by pawdrix

Comment:
This is a keeper, Steve. It has that unrehearsed, never-to-be-repeated wit that is in my view is the very best thing about street photographs. It's the fact that you really can't set this up that makes it so durable. Well, theoretically you might be able to stage it, but it would not, could not, look like this.

In spite of my support of your work over the past few years, I am only a casual admirer of street photography. The reason is that while the best of street photography is an imperishable pleasure, quite a lot of it is derivative. Like a knock-knock joke; you can only stand a certain amount of them until you start to wince in embarrassment for the teller before you've even heard the punch line. But in spite of that, I still keep coming back to the street stuff because when you get a good one, it makes up for all the imitative dross. You produce more than your fair share of 'good ones', and this photograph is comfortable in the company of the best work of any street photographers, anywhere.

As for the Lensbaby dimension, it really does enhance the already-heart-stopping photograph. Not just for the isolating effect of the selective focus, which directs our attention to the tethered torso nicely. But also because of the sense of recoil that it gives to the facial expression of the man with the coffee. Through that, we share his moment of astonishment all the more convincingly.

This has never happened before (and I never thought it would), but I have no choice ... I must award you a second Order of the Thumb: