lamp
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
Crikey! We all love that lamp, Gina. I'll swap you for it: Lawnmower? Golf clubs? Half a dozen awful lamps? Name your price.

requiem
by cgino

Comment:
I'm not as stimulated by it as I am with some of your other LB stuff, but I think it might just be that I'm a bit biased (perhaps unreasonably so) against the recent widespread use of texture layers. I will admit they do rescue some middle-of-the-road photographs, but I'm pretty sure that this one's actually a lot better than that! The composition and balance is great, too.

barrow (6 of 31)
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Tones! Very nice tones.

Motel California
by Germaine

Comment:
You're not a Private Eye in real life, are you G? Scoping out motels & street corners. I'm starting to hear music when I look at your pictures. Good music ... just like the pictures.

daniel
by ErinM

Comment:
Hard to beat that! It has a very interesting 3-D feel, doesn't it?

It would also be a very fine portrait without the LB ... the 'underlying' photograph (and photography/processing) is superb.

Ode to RKT
by krnodil

Comment:
You've got the trees thing working pretty good! Now try the hot rods.

LB2
by Charlene

Comment:
Nice control! I don't know what you're doubting yourself for ... you seem to have this bendy thing workin' fine. Imagine your (fabulous) Penguins on Ice with a bit of implied motion coming from the Lensbaby effect. Sweet spot centered right on the face, or on the joined hands (not too much blur ... it's too good a pic as it is). You could do that, right? I think LB is best when it makes an already great photograph subtly different, rather than a so-so photograph radically different. You can take great photographs, and you can get that LB effect right where you want it. And that's all there is!

Light Shines on the Fallen
by trevytrev

Comment:
This is one of your best.

The Pigeon Projects
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
The streetlight structure itself looks like a giant bird. And these pigeons know it, too. They call it Ayesha; She Who Must be Obeyed.

I rather like this shot. It works. I'd say it flies, if I didn't think you'd groan.

S T O R M
by Bear_Music

Comment:
This is a nice frame for the image. I can't really believe I'm commenting about a frame (I'll be lecturing you about the Rule of Thirds next, or blathering about 'distractions'). But it is. This absorbing photograph is definitely elevated by the choice of framing.

I've never agreed with all this carping about photographs not needing frames, or not needing titles. Just yesterday I read a forum comment from some twit saying that "if a photograph needs a title, the photographer has failed". What absolute balderdash! By that logic Milton's Paradise Lost would instead be known as Untitled ΓΆ€“ and we can't find it either. And The Mona Lisa would probably be filed under Chicks, Enigmatic, No 56392.

If frames are 'distracting', if titles are an admission of failure, then the person calling them so must have the imagination and intellectual curiosity of a fire bucket. An empty fire bucket.

Thank you Bear, for so graciously hosting my impromptu rant.