The Works of Man Upon the Wheel of Time
by posthumous

Comment:
Arresting presentation. You and Mariuca both shared something frustratingly compelling this week. And both were among my favorites.

Chaotic
by HUETH

Comment:
Sometimes the chaos of life is truly gorgeous when you have enough psychological distance from it to see it this way. I find this to be thematically resonant AND hopefully presented. It was among my favorites in the challenge.

Contained jumble
by mariuca

Comment:
Lynn said it exactly. I can't decide if I'm frustrated or delighted that there are zero contextual notes to help me resolve the mystery...

The Kitchen Drawer
by Refocused

Comment:
Sometimes it feels like any "closeable" area in our house is as chaotic as this. Good one!

the challenge
by PennyStreet

Comment:
It's fitting that this one should finish right next to Barbara's. I rated both the same--among my highest scores--because I lingered on both thinking about how chaotic yet miraculously self-regulating urban life is. This frame captures the essence of something I felt but would have struggled to articulate many times while touring the streets of Seattle last year.

Choreography of Chaos
by primabarbara

Comment:
A richly inspired crop that tells exactly the right story for this challenge. This was among my challenge favorites. I smile trying to imagine this low-angle capture in context.

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Sekou
by Paul

Comment:
I rather love this one. Interestingly, for me it's the tiny bit of frame at the bottom where the puppetry attachment is visible that makes it perfectly composed. It's a chef's kiss bit of contextual detail, placed just where it needs to be so that it hints at the story behind the image--but only after the figure has made the same impression on us as it did in the eyes of the photographer.

Strange attractor
by LevT

Comment:
I assume this must be an art piece on exhibit somewhere in LA? Wonderfully appropriate for the challenge. So pristinely photographed that even the dust specks accumulating on it are tack sharp, too!

cameos
by tanguera

Comment:
Every time I opened this one I kept trying to imagine whether the second face in this photo is a friend or an unwary stranger. It's to the photographer's credit that it could be either one and equally believable. They've had something akin to one of these installations at our local IKEA years ago. Great eye for this challenge!

Overtourism
by MargaretNet

Comment:
Simply magical. Thematically on-point and poetically realized. This was my top score. Thought for sure it would be one of the top three.