Guarded
by Charlene

Comment:
Lovely. And clever. Best of all, not overdone. Not over-sharpened. Not over-processed. Not over-anything. Except good. It's very good!

Equine Aura
by JustinM

Comment:
This is an adventurous photograph. When faced with a horse while holding a camera, it takes quite a lot of restraint to not take a sentimental or romantic photograph; horses are like that! So I admire this all the more for being instead a behind-the-scenes look at horses. Horses as a business, I think, rather than as an expensive personal indulgence. I could imagine this to be backstage at a riding school. The horses await their turn to go on stage (into the sunlight) and haul some sorry putz around the course. Again. Not a DPC-friendly image perhaps, but that's just another plus.

Fish & Chips
by ashepp

Comment:
This is so close to brilliant. If I could just forgive you for this processing technique (I've seen it somewhere, but I can't recall what it's called I'm sorry ... actually I'm not sorry!), then it would be brilliant. Unreservedly.

It's a really good documentary photograph ... part way between art and reportage, which is a lovely place for a photographer to be! It's certainly far more than a portrait. Yes it reports ΓΆ€“ showing us what's going on here, what they sell, what they communicate to their customers; stuff like that. But it also editorialises, in that it reveals how these guys feel about their business, about themselves, and especially about each other. They're family of course; got to be.

And it reaches beyond just this one shop. By implication it suggests that if these guys can pause for a moment, and can look like this, presumably so could the busy people in all the similar High Street businesses that we take for granted. I could see it as part of a series. In fact it should be.

So, it's too emotional to be journalism; too factual to be art. I like that. Just can't quite love that processing. 9.

Sharp Left
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
Well, it's dark. Foreboding. Portentous. It may mean you are going on a journey. For a few days. You will meet a tall dark stranger, with a woodie. Take precautions.

C A L I E N T E
by Bear_Music

Comment:
The kitchen! Good, too. Lovely shapes and slashes of ... something interesting. On what does the pepper repose? It looks like the wing of a U2 spy plane, but that's unlikely, surely?

by aznym

Comment:
At least I know what this one is. I'm surprised they let you in there! It's normally strictly No Cameras.

by aznym

Comment:
Even when you make no freakin' sense at all, you actually make a lot of sense. I suppose you picked that up in Ireland?

by aznym

Comment:
Oh, you stop that! I'm afraid your talent is too distracting. I prefer to look at photographs that I've seen before ... seen over and over and over again. Score: 3/10.

B I R D I E S
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
They're not all that precise. Of course, that's their charm. This is bloody good.
Edges suck. Perhaps I could have put that a little more tactfully ... you know what a diplomat I am normally.

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by krnodil

Comment:
Oh yes. Just fabulous; shape, tone and (subtle) texture. Eucalyptus too! An Aussie tree. So the subtlety was no accident then?