Minneriya
by aznym

Comment:
These look familiar to me, but then not. Still a beautiful sight, in any latitude. Onto my top shelf you go. Thank you.

bubble gum
by jmritz

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Originally posted by tnun: beautiful morphs and fades, just like the development of flavors in the mouth.

How good is that? To inspire such a simile is like a Triple-Blue ribbon, is it not?

Message edited by author 2014-11-08 21:54:55.

A date with Fifi
by Yo_Spiff

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Originally posted by mariuca: This is one of the best pictures of Americana that I saw in a long time.

Yep. It's a bell-ringer all right. Just terrific, Steve.

R.E.S.
by tnun

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Yes, underrated ... not least by me. (a niggardly 6). Do you know the stellar novel The Industry of Souls by the late Martin Booth? This could be a picture of the protagonist, Alexander Bayliss. If you haven't read it, do. You'll smother me with gratitude.

An Armload
by markwiley

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Fuji should be paying you for owning that X100S. I know the Leica guys here admire your X100s stuff, and you deserve to be in their company. Or they in yours. It's beautiful, durable craftsmanship, Mark. I think your stuff is consistently what poker players refer to as 'the nuts'. Thank you.

Dare to be different
by Judi

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Magnificent titular irony!

Kumartuli 001
by salmiakki

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An interesting photo essay in the classical, Nat-Geo style. So the images are largely about their subjects rather than about the photography, at least as a first impression. But a longer look discloses some very clever photographic choices that elevate without getting in the way.

Indian craftsmanship is quite good, but Indian art is universally awful. This is folk art, which is pretty awful world-wide I suppose, but even the 'high' art is painful in India.

It's an instructive and worthy photo essay. Thank you.

Found in a Wrecking Yard #1
by jomari

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I love found art. It's a transformative process that demonstrates the difference, or one of the differences, between an artist and a mere photographer. And genuinely transformative images of found objects are a bottomless well of wonder for the observer. It takes two gifts to do this stuff as well as you have: curiosity and imagination. And they are the only two truly vital, vital signs of an artist. For the record, my favourite of them all is #9, which becomes an abandoned space station, still silently circling a beautiful but chillingly silent planet. Our last moving artefact, it has become. A bloody beauty, mate. Thank you.

Found in a Wrecking Yard #9
by jomari

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Lost in Space! Beautiful. Thank you.

oof
by colorcarnival

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I had you as my No 1 pick in the challenge, and by a good distance too. Sorry I didn't comment earlier. We (and I mean the whole of humanity, if you don't mind the responsibility) desperately need more insurrectionist photographers. And less of the other kind too. But I don't expect you to actually exterminate any of the damn drones; just keep jamming their signals like this.

I don't like awarding post-challenge accolades (doesn't have the same integrity), but had I been paying attention this glittering Order of the Thumb would have been an automatic. So sorry for the belated award ceremony; the band's gone home, the bar has closed, and people are sweeping stuff up and stacking the chairs. But what can you do?