Pink Flamingos
by rooum

Comment:
Wizard prang!

romancing the plume
by tnun

Comment:

Originally posted by h2: tasteless and ill-minded

This is no place for your autobiography Oliver. Although that's a pretty accurate start.

romancing the plume
by tnun

Comment:
I very nearly thumbed you, and now I'm glad I didn't because that would have been two in a row and Shannon would have been onto me like a terrier.

pluck
by jagar

Comment:
Ka-pow! A knee in the nuts photograph. My favourite, except I could not vote on a team mate, plus I was doubled over in agony anyway.

Message edited by author 2015-06-29 00:25:28.

Jaqen
by odriew

Comment:
Mr Google says this name is some bloke from a TV show I've never seen. So I'm out of my depth with that, but not with this photograph which is easily the most interesting in the challenge. Composition is really sublime. Lighting, especially on the bloke, is great. A terrific photograph made all the more admirable by appearing in a challenge characterised by banality and predictability. I hang about your neck the albatross of an Order of the Thumb. 10 and thank you.

they are, invisible
by jmritz

Comment:
Sometimes, when I look at the latest DPC front page with dismay, I turn right to the back page and look for you. And then I am restored. But not for long, because there's going to be another front page in a day or two. So don't stop. Just don't. Yours is a humanitarian mission, John. You'll probably get a sainthood out of it, and well deserved too.

with the wind
by jagar

Comment:

Originally posted by Neat: Brilliant catch! You captured something special.

You think of this as a catch, Anita? Nothing was caught here. Imagined, breathed into being, and cradled there. No catching.

with the wind
by jagar

Comment:
I'd have given this a 10 if you weren't a team mate. It's the difference between a chord (in this case a beautiful minor chord) and the clumsy single notes played by dullards. Thank you.

mom
by tnun

Comment:
This is a welcome, cooling draught in a parched desert of disappointment.

By interrogating the headstone alone, and eschewing the contrived, you have elevated the challenge theme.

Here is the memorial, and within it the suggestion of the presence still of Mater Nostra. She looks darkly, desperately out at us; hardly discernible yet indubitably there in her compassion and her regrets.

The photograph transcends by a country mile the otherwise predictable stuff that has characterised this paint-by-the-numbers challenge.

Yours is an image that affirms the idea that less is indeed more.

It's a 10 for you (my next highest score was 6). Also the appalling burden of the Order of the Blue Thumb, for which I apologise as it's pretty much the kiss of death in the popular voting. Thank you.

Portrait of a hotel morning
by Paul

Comment:
Hard to credit the cool reception given this photograph. That anyone who loves photography could fail to love this. You must despair, sometimes? Me, I'd like to confiscate 68 cameras, and revoke their owners' carry permits for life.