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by moriadelacroix

Comment:

Originally posted by hotpasta: it's really a bland image to be perfectly truthful with you...it looks like it was shot through the windscreen of a car...sorry :(

No it doesn't. This does.

by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
OK, I'll 'fess up. I have done a couple of them myself.


Just a couple, though!

by Ecce_Signum

Comment:

Originally posted by xion: Some of them are quite surprised that one of them could fly and the others don't really care.

Photo: Pretty good.
Overlay: Er, no, thanks all the same.
Comment from the X-Man: Priceless!

escape
by ErinM

Comment:
Yep, I was thinking of Cartier-Bresson's shot too, from the thumb. Then I saw the pawdrix comment. Zounds! He's pretty damn perceptive, that pawdrix guy!

The Water is Wide
by Germaine

Comment:
For me it was:

The boy stood on the burning deck,
his feet were covered in blisters.
He thought his knickers were too hot,
so he borrowed a pair of his sisters.

I guess I'm a little more sensitive than Art & Judy.

knob
by cgino

Comment:
OK. 7:30pm? I'll bring a drawing of some wine.

S T O R M
by Bear_Music

Comment:

Originally posted by posthumous: ...That's a funny example, since Da Vinci didn't give the painting that title...

I know what he called it, but my point wouldn't have sounded so snappy that way. And I never could see the damn snake anyway.

Patois
by RKT

Comment:
I wish I did not immediately recognise who this work is by, so that I could comment objectively. But this sure sense of style, this technique, and this wit ('Patois') can surely have only one author here. So I recuse myself from voting on it. And my more detailed comments will have to go without saying.

Avalon
by bstansfield

Comment:
I wish this wasn't going to finish as far down as it will, only because I'd like more people to look at it properly. It's a much more worthy photograph than it appears at first glance. Alas, that's all the glances it will get from most voters ... 'too small'; 'too blurry'; 'distracting'; 'poor composition'; 'too distorted' ... yada yada yada.

None of that carping is relevant to this quirky and very fine, enjoyable photograph. 9.

Cooperation
by jerowe

Comment:
This is a classically good photograph. Classical because it really could (setting aside the clothing) be from anytime from the late 19th century to the early 21st ΓΆ€“ and hopefully someone will still be doing this in another 100 years.

It's technically good ... sometimes that matters, and this is such a time. It's natural, and doesn't look like the product of some tacky 'action' in digital post-processing. It's humanistic, without being sentimental. It's witty, without being heavily-laboured. There are a lot of renowned photographers, even in places like this, that would be pleased to have this in their portfolio. I'd sure be pleased to have it in mine, but the best I can do is to add it to my favorites and award it the Order of the Thumb: