The Messenger
by tvsometime

Comment:
I find this very good. The entire story, the ignored messenger, the Woody Allen type a bit freaked out, the hustle and bustle .... Perhaps I find this image very familiar to me - an ubiquitous scene around Times Square in Manhattan - but a familiar scene does not make a good shot.
Congratulations for a great candid.

july
by hahn23

Comment:
I am mesmerized by this landscape. The ground is almost anthropomorphic - reminds me of a battle scene of the German painter Altdorfer, The Alexander Battle
//www.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_Altdorfer,_The_Battle_of_Alexander_at_Issus.jpg
Therefore, I do not think of it as a picture in the style of Ben but a great picture on its own.

Alley Cats
by markwiley

Comment:
Great shot!
As to the ear, I knew that if a stray cat was caught and fixed, they clip its left ear. My son got one with a clipped ear. So this was one lost and found and lost again.

dune run
by tanguera

Comment:
Tremendous image. The line of the horizon is spectacular.

Sunset Dining
by Jon_H

Comment:
Amazing alltogether!
As for Ben's challenge, the horse is perhaps too cemtered on the image, too parallel to the viewer. What do I know? Might want to ask him.

the guy at No5
by jagar

Comment:
What a strange effect! The guy looksalsmost bidimentional as if he is a ghost (don'ttell him!)

it depends on who you ask
by tnun

Comment:
The hilarious raven. Did not exist before you captured. Amazing.

Wedded to stone Saint Florian sank.
by rooum

Comment:
Totally blown away by this picture, sister with another "Delacroix" type that I admired so much. And they do remain photographs in spite of the treatment. Excellent work.

tea spoon
by bobcc

Comment:
The more I look at it, the more I like it. The image in itself is seductive on top of depicting the theme.

oikophobia
by jmritz

Comment:
Ha! Only a doctor will know that! When you think that you know a lot of fears and phobias, bang, a new one gets served to you on a platter! Ans so I learned that Derrida is a classic oikophobe! (and also that Koumpounophobia means fear of sewing buttons.)
As for the image, it depicts more Hylophobia.
A good lesson though.