The Mechanic
by roadrunner

Comment:
Well I think I recognise the arm, but not his tool, fortunately. Great job, K.

Ride the rocking horse?
by dragonlady

Comment:
Well, you keep doing this ... producing images that are beautiful but also a bit emotionally unsettling. Thus they burrow into the viewer's mind & it's hard to get them out! The first one I can recall was a self-portrait, but there have been several since. And this is another good one. You're the grown-up Joey Lawrence (which I mean as a compliment, to both of you).

Django & Stephane
by pawdrix

Comment:
I agree with srbrubaker; this is a very fine tribute to two great musicians. Its "backbeat" lighting, bold tonal range and nonconformist composition is so very apposite. Bravo!

The Road
by puzzled

Comment:
This is a very beautiful photograph. It's compelling ..,. makes me want to come back to look at it again and again. Why? In reverse order of appeal for me: 5=colours (striking); 4=textures (terrific range of textures, especially love the long grasses by the shoulder of the road); 3=composition (simple, graphic, very "artistic"); 2=je ne sais quois (It's got something I can't describe, but I like it); 1=puzzled (a favourite photographer).

Opera-house.jpg
by pgatt

Comment:
This is a very unusual and therefore most interesting photograph of the world's most beautiful building, Paul. Alas I couldn't be there yesterday, but my niece Kelly (roadrunner) was present & had a great day. I absolutely love how you have managed to capture this presumably rare moment when the largest sail was in shadow, but all the other sails were in either full or nearly full sunlight. I have never seen that before, among ten zillion shots of the House. I'd also like to see a closer crop of this shot; I think you've captured a full tonal range in the sails alone, and I think the effect would be even more spectacular (if a little abstract) when cropped really tight. Congratulations on an original image of a much-photographed subject!

Tears on feather
by ninja

Comment:
Impressive! Congratulations. It's a very fine composition, and beautifully lit as well. I've never tried to do anything like this, but your remarkable lens effect of the water droplets has inspired me to try it. Hope you won't mind if I post the result for your comments!!??

mill-houses.jpg
by dragonlady

Comment:
Very nice B&W, Marion. I particularly admire the fact that you have been able to retain visible detail at every point across the full tonal range, from white to deep black. I'd love to know what process you used for the B&W conversion ... was it via channel mixer?

Cut Stone
by e301

Comment:
After leafing through the first couple of pages of results and not finding this image, I wondered what it had been DQ'd for .... but it wasn't there either. Instead, I find it buried here, in 198th place! I'd prefer it HAD been DQ'd rather than so profoundly underestimated.
Re: MC Escher ... I'm with you.

Message edited by author 2005-07-27 02:28:01.

Cymbology
by fellajr

Comment:

Originally posted by ubique: ..... I hope its qualities are not underestimated in the voting. 8

Alas, they were.

Cut Stone
by e301

Comment:
This is very good; it does somehow convey effectively the muffled feel of heavy, cold, cut stone, and it does so not by showing us a close-up of the surface texture (which wouldn't work), but rather by showing us the mood created by the light ... emotional texture. It's a photograph that rewards a minute's close study. At first the highlights seem overblown, but they're not; just enough detail is there, as it is in the deep shadows on the floor. A finely judged exposure. 9
Back for a last look; I've got to select one 10, and this is it. 10.