Portico Row
by banmorn

Comment:
I'm with the Bear. In particular for the very perceptive reason he cites.

Another very instructive example of how the Lensbaby changes perception; opens a few little-used side doors in the photographer's and the viewers' noggins..

ipod
by ErinM

Comment:
I hate following Art. He says all the good stuff and I'm just left with, "Nice shot! Cooooool!"

Anyway, nice shot. Coooool.

Needle Baby
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
You're a Seattle guy! I never knew that. I was a Seahawks fan back in Steve Largent's days. Before your time, of course. No 80. Oh, he was smart. Not too fast, but very smart. And soft hands ... soft like ... something really, really soft.

Needle looks fine, screwing around like this.

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by salmiakki

Comment:
Oh but it's not more or less the same at all! The mood is completely different.

The other one's sensual. And someone's with the guy in the other one, waiting smiling on the sand for him to turn and wade back ashore.

This one is despairing; bereft. Nobody is waiting. And he might not be wading back ashore, either.

They're both good, but if I could see only one I'd rather it be this one.

Pointed Beauty
by trevytrev

Comment:
I don't love barbed wire at all, but I was a farm boy so I got to push great rolls of it around, and also to unwind it by hand when I'd forgotten my gloves. And later to climb over it when I was in too much of a hurry to walk down to the gate (Tip: climbing over it ALWAYS takes longer than walking to the gate).

I have since tried to photograph the stuff a few times though, and I never got a result as good as this. Maybe the wire senses my residual loathing?

- - - -
by krnodil

Comment:
You can't be too weird for me, no matter how you try.
My first reaction was to see it as an endoscope image (although I'm sure you had something a little more romantic in mind).
I haven't had a second reaction yet; I'm still a little grossed out from my first one.

See? You've got to get a whole lot weirder, I'm afraid.

Demolished
by Retroesque

Comment:
I like the right half, and I like the left half. But I think I like them as two separate pictures. That's probably an idiotic comment, but it's what I thought at first glance, and it's still what I think after a couple of minutes.

Last Stop
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
Crikey! You're pretty good with tones, Amy. Looks to me like you can probably play that piano in the Moonlight Sonata, because your photography has a musician's touch ... you play melody & harmony together and with equal weight in this photograph.

There is NOT a place called French Lick, Indiana! Is there? I'm trying to imagine how it got its name. Don't tell me; I'm sure I'll prefer my version.

Santa's Reindeer
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
Hello Gina ... I remember you from my last (first) time here ... that portrait Harley Fan. I remember loving that! I've just looked again, and I still love it.

I'm not quite so taken with Santa's Reindeer, but that's because I'm a grouch about Christmas. Sweet spots right on the money, however.

Lensbaby 3 (Beach Impression)
by JuliBoc

Comment:
Why look for the 'sweet spot' when the 'unsweet spot' looks as good as this?