For aince it’s toomed my hert and brain, the thistle needs maun fa’ again.
by posthumous

Comment:
I don't know what to say. It seems like you're viewing yourself with a certain amount of Guinness-enhanced bravura, and I wonder if you shouldn't have been born as a sozzled Irishman instead of a gentleman Yankee. I think it's splendid to be so self-aware, and yet so apparently insecure at the same time. It teases out very attractive threads of consciousness that stay well knotted for most of the rest of us. Some of these pictures are quite brilliant, and some are clunkers when viewed in the unflattering light of the morning after. But for a modern iteration of Mr Leopold Bloom, that hardly matters ... he's described as a man of appetites, and this collection speaks of appetites, I reckon. But I give you only 50% as Leopold Bloom, and the other 50% is Ignatius J Reilly. These photographs as individual mug shots don't automatically implicate Bloom nor Reilly, but taken together as an essay they make the two fabulous identities jostle for pole position in your visual autobiography. I've stolen a picture (by Joyce himself) of Leopold Bloom for you. Ignatius we will leave aside, at the mercy of the caprices of his pesky valve.

Inbound
by Melethia

Comment:
Best wave photograph I've ever seen. Most of the also-rans in this genre were all about improbable colour and unrealistic detail. Yours is about impressionism. Movement. Sound. The ocean as a heaving creature. Which is what she is. Thank you.

greener
by bvy

Comment:
Just wonderful. It's so different, so unexpected. I'm not entirely sure what it might mean, but I do know what it represents, what it stands for ... a splendid tilt at the conventional follow-my-leader numb-nut mediocrity of contemporary digital photography. If I could give you the Don Quixote award I would do so, but all I have in the shop is this dusty old Order of the Thumb. Plus a 10 and a Muchas Gracias.

Childhood
by Neat

Comment:
One of the most beautiful photographs I've seen for ages. It's love of the photograph, it's understanding of the photograph as an object, is magnificent. I hope it gets the exposure that it deserves. Alas, I don't suppose it will. And this won't help much either ... an emphatic 10 and the mixed blessing of an Order of the Thumb. So sorry! But thank you.

Dice Fury
by colorcarnival

Comment:
This is a super-duper photograph. The lighting is just astonishing, and yet the immediate impression is to not even think about the lighting at all, which just goes to show how very good it is.

The car is 90% implied, the road is there but hardly so, the instrument console visible just enough to show you care , the fluffy dice are in motion ... and you (I'm assuming that's you) are locked in the motor-head zone ... plus just enough highlights from the windscreen frame, the mirror and the driver's knuckles. The reflected light on the face is perfect and looks 100% natural, though I suspect you've helped it out somehow?

This is a sensationally good photograph because it doesn't impose itself on the iconography. I'd happily throw this baby a double-six all day long, but alas I'm limited to 10, so please have that with my compliments. Plus an Order of the Thumb. Thank you!

evening roost
by mefnj

Comment:
Lovely. Perfect judgement between what is said and what is unsaid ... You've stirred in exactly enough of both, I think. Thank you.

Laneway Vespa
by Karlow75

Comment:
Must be Melbourne? Well you found exactly the right, and only, point of view to animate the scene, thereby elevating the street art to your own. Thank you.

faced by
by Tiberius

Comment:
Beautifully conceived and executed. Tibi? Thank you.

Who's Ned Kelly?
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
Good Grief! He could BE Ned Kelly! The resemblance goes beyond the beard. And your terrific photography is the clincher. Thank you ... Such is life.

The Ticket
by hesitant

Comment:
Interesting shot. Havana, I suppose? The hand dangling from the window elevates it beyond the ordinary. Thank you.