arboreal flotsam
by krnodil

Comment:
Very absorbing, provocative photograph. It asks questions of the viewer; about context, even about the medium we are seeing (i.e. Is it under water? In a puddle? In a deep drift at the base of the tree?) Then other thoughts follow (What does it smell like? Is it soft, or crunchy?) I like questions, and the less information that's easily grasped, the more questions your image asks. Too good for a score but I'm giving it one anyway. 9.

...and I feel fine
by pawdrix

Comment:
End of the world & there's one guy taking a picture of it! Who's gonna look at it?

I just last night read a Stephen King short story called Graduation Afternoon, in which a nuke explodes over Manhattan & a group of people watch it happen and make comments, like they are merely observers (rather than the participants they were to become, just seconds later).

This somehow reminded me of that.

Sand
by JuliBoc

Comment:
Quote from JuliBoc: "I'm having such a good time."

It shows.

Through the Hollow
by trevytrev

Comment:
I'm watching this. Ichabod Crane will arrive a little later, I am nearly sure of it.

See? Lensbaby Composer with the Time Travel attachment. What'll they think of next?

The End of a Day
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
You're awfully good, Amy J Hopp.

Departure
by pawdrix

Comment:
Yes. Yes indeed. Nice LB use, too. Of course, it would be not so good without that trash, which a lesser observer would have thoughtlessly cloned out, not appreciating that the presence of the trash balances the bird. Liberates the bird, in fact.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair... - Langston Hughes
by pawdrix

Comment:
Hell. These are the stairs down to Hell. I knew they'd be crystal. And it doesn't look too hot down there, either. Looks pretty inviting, actually. OK, I'm convinced ... pass me those Bad to the Bone pills.

The Forlorn Hope
by pawdrix

Comment:
Wow! Four wide receivers and two running backs; could be anything. Sweep left, probably. The QB needs to put his helmet on and get rid of that spiky kids' haircut before John Madden sees it.

Morning Canter (3 of 31)
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Once again, as with your recent seascape, it's the gentle folding of the horizon at the edges that makes something magic happen for me. It's like the scene is existing only in some kind of silken time-and-space capsule; the horse and rider are visible only from inside the capsule.

More of what LB can do to bend perception and imagination, rather than just pixels.

Wink
by Germaine

Comment:
All these So-Cal Noir street surveillance shots of yours are turning into one of the real features of this thread. They are like cheap crime novels from the 1950's, which were so much more full of the juices of life than the oh-so-politically-correct-and-sensitive-and-inclusive-and-non-judgmental novels of more recent times. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh with the "cheap" epithet, but I meant it as a compliment. I think I'll elevate you to Elmore Leonard status, so there's no doubt about how admirable I think they are.