14Apr39
by herfotoman

Comment:
Tarentaal angling for a free lunch. Or maybe to BE a free lunch. It's a delicious dish you serve up here.

14Apr33
by herfotoman

Comment:
Elegant geometry. It's a hypotenuse fly. Very rare sighting.

black on white and shades of grey
by mariuca

Comment:
I'm a sucker for minimalist B&W photographs; for the things that are undeniably there but left unsaid. This is quite different from those pictures where the photographer suppresses or removes all of the background to "eliminate distractions", which is almost always a puerile and artless intervention that reduces the photograph to an improbable cartoon. In this picture the things not visible are nonetheless all there for the viewer to enjoy, with a wee bit of imagination. Into my own top ten, and thank you.

redcoincidence
by bvy

Comment:
This is a terrific photograph that does my favourite thing concerning cameras ... it thumbs its nose at boring bloody photography and instead celebrates the joy of the photograph. It's a photograph all about photographs. A simple thought that almost no gear-laden Serious Photographer would have, and it's expressed with clarity and wit. Who could ask for anything more?

Of course I see that the foreground lady has a camera.

I remember all those family photographs of people standing awkwardly by the car, with the sun correctly placed back over the photographer's shoulder. Your photograph pays tribute to all those wonderful snaps in a way I've never seen before, never even thought of before. If this were one of those DPC Art challenges and I were a jurist, I'd fight to have this awarded first place, and suffer no argument to the contrary. This is a great piece of contemporary art, and I hope it will attract the attention it deserves from voters and commenters. But alas, I doubt that it will.

It's my equal top pick and so I must now curse you with the Order of the Thumb. 10. Thank you.

they wandered not
by mitalapo

Comment:
An endlessly interesting photograph. All the players are in different spatial dimensions, as if a family's generational portraits have been animated and are hesitantly gathering for an occasion of great moment; someone is lost, in one way or another.

The most thrilling thing about this photograph is its originality. It's not like anything else I've seen, and that's hard to do in this age of images beyond counting. It may just be the beard, but I'm reminded of those morally enigmatic Russian plays and stories by Chekov (Anton, not the Star Trek bloke) ... the questions asked by your picture are all pretty much left unresolved.

So much better to look at a photograph and be unsettled than to be reassured. Why, as a photographer, settle for doing the same old thing when you can be as ambitious and audacious as this?

A stellar photograph, and my equal top pick. 10, thank you, and the curse of the Order of the Thumb be upon you.

Happening
by jagar

Comment:
It's rare that a ribbon-winner is of much interest to me, but this is a wonderful exception. Thank you.

Original sin
by figaro

Comment:
I like this so much without knowing just why that I'm left wondering who's the artist; you or me?
It's probably you.
In my top four. Thank you.

Out of Season
by streetpigeon

Comment:
This is beautiful on several levels, not least being the admirable restraint of the artist. Some things ΓΆ€“ actually most things ΓΆ€“ are more eloquent for restraint in their expression, so I'll just shut up and say thank you.

Horse Play
by insteps

Comment:
I've tried repeatedly to resolve this, and I can't. Sometimes it's minuscule: bacteria, some other kind of microscopic life - maybe spermatozoa. Other times the scale is God-like: a view from space. But after all, I don't know what it is and more important I don't care; it's a beautiful thing that becomes more beautiful with every viewing. What a welcome relief that is from all the tiresome and unequivocal sermons where the viewer's only option is to sit there like a stunned mullet and submit to the photographer's leaden lack of anything fresh to say. I do love irreconcilable differences between your side of the camera and mine, so your picture is well into my top ten. Thank you.

Sandwich
by Paul

Comment:
Beautiful B&W work, and an interesting picture as well. So good photography AND a good photograph, which is a surprisingly rare combination. Well into my own top ten. Thank you.