passengers
by nick_hinch

Comment:

Top Ten. Thank you. 10.

Hell is round the corner
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:

Top Ten. Thank you. 10.

Relentless
by bogulo

Comment:

Top Ten. Thank you. 10.

Xenoscape
by Cory

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Top Ten. Thank you. 10.

Silent Thunder
by 2mccs

Comment:

Top Ten. Thank you. 10.

daydream
by tome

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Top Ten. Thank you. 10.

image one
by PennyStreet

Comment:
Well! What a strange essay (for me strange is a good thing).
It looks like the twelve photographs were taken by twelve different photographers using twelve different cameras loaded with twelve different films – and they do all look convincingly like film (for me film is a good thing).
I never could settle down to a smooth narrative or even a resolvable sequence (for me unsettling is a good thing).
I'm so intrigued by the choices you made here; choices unexplained even by any implication or subtle subtext that I can detect (for me intrigue is a â€Â¦ you know!)
Perversely, the essay succeeds as a collection by virtue of its brazen eclecticism. You've made lack of cohesiveness a virtue, and thus achieved huge interest by coming to the viewer through that unguarded back door. I've never seen another photo essay like it, and that's really thrilling for me as a viewer.
Thank you, several time over.

sunday (1)
by tnun

Comment:
Arrrgh! I couldn't resist opening the three in separate tabs, and then flicking through the sequence faster and faster. Then slower and slower, then backwards, then forwards again. Then stop for 1. For 2. For 3. Speaking of 3, I really do like how it's lighter, and bursts away from the others when the viewer plays the "three tabs" game with them.

I've never seen such photographs from you, and I'm most impressed. I thought you were just a wild old bastard like me, and now I see that you isn't just that at all. Really lovely photographs, and each anchored in the others. An essay just by, as you say, the force of their siblingly insistence. Thank you.

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we walk the sands
by daisydavid

Comment:
Yes. I was captivated by these four images. That's the literal meaning of captivated, as in attracted and then held, you siren you. Back and forth I went, burrowing a bit deeper on each pass. I saw these as illustrations, the first four of more, for a book that I'd never be able to write but would love to read. Something about earth husbandry it'd be, but not strident and shallow like that oleaginous dipstick Albert Gore. Quiet and profound, the book would be, and there'd never be argument about its verity.

Isn't it odd that multiple exposures can actually simplify and clarify meaning, if they're done right. These are. Thank you.

the secret life of waves
by Cuttooth

Comment:
Lovely, pacific Pacific photographs, and I liked the words too. It's a nice change to see such beautiful wave photographs with perfectly judged musical accompaniment, rather than the usual twangy surfer music. I didn't want it to end so I watched it three times.

It's an immersion experience, is this essay, and your advice about full screen and headphones is apt. Thank you.