Washed Away
by MadMan2k

Comment:
Do we enjoy sometimes pretty pictures because we like the real thing they represent?
This one is a pretty memory – is this what the title intends also?
It’s reminiscent of the French painter Eugene Boudin.

Thither
by markwiley

Comment:
I have seen this before. It was an outtake to the “in the style of odriew” challenge. I remember clearly that I was impressed by it and I wrote:
What a story! The composition is threatening and the candy like processing makes it otherworldly
The cartoonish figure is charming and has exactly that ounce of danger needed for alertness.

The Silence of the Aspens
by hahn23

Comment:
A beautiful and elegant image. We’ve seen it before but at least for me the connection with the Russian literature is too strong not to leave a word here.
“But there is no man with a hammer, the happy man goes on living and the petty vicissitudes of life touch him lightly, like the wind in an aspen-tree, and all is well.” Chekhov

Dancing In The Street
by gsal

Comment:
Enchanting candid with a beautiful compositional movement.
The seesaw diagonal makes the viewer part of the scene

The Lost Hat
by snaffles

Comment:
This almost engraved image seems to be meant for a stamp illustration. I love the almost oriental look of the rider, the precise moment of the lost hat (a good title), the faded-in-the-dust look, the horse as if aware of being admired.

"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." -- Henry Miller
by MaryO

Comment:
Irresistible moment to witness without trying to save it forever. The photograph has the quality of a tapestry. It is a fragment of a very large tapestry, something on a vast subject such as "the music of the spheres".
The four horizontal registers are so perfectly interwoven. The grayness of the image can be probably still fine tuned but as it is we look at a fascinating photograph.

Reclining Nude
by PenelopeK

Comment:
Very clever but I don’t find visually it enough stimulating.

Nothing will work unless you do
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Looking at this picture made me think of waiting for a polaroid image to get developed. The more I look the more I keep finding details. I go inch by inch and observe and get engaged in the action. This image is humming and visually it keeps me going from one place to another looking for more clues.
But it’s not only this that goes into my mind. It’s what “art” is when we talk about photography. I think that an artistic photograph is one that keeps the viewer engaged and curious and the mind alert. It does not have to do with any formula; it’s not a dreamy picture, it’s not an impressionistic one, it’s not blurry or “unfinished” processing wise or trying to step out of any conventions. Far from it.
I totally agree for instance with what Marcel Proust wrote :
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

slipsliding
by herfotoman

Comment:
The tricks the memory can play on us! Wonderful nostalgia but, wait, there is also a feeling of silent falling, slowly and irreversible in the viscosity of time.

The calm before the storm
by Paul

Comment:
The title put me off. This image is so much like a set for a play that I find detrimental any allusion to nature. Its artificiality is due to a processing pushed too far; the sky is the painted drop (a cyclorama), the totem like and other foreground elements are made of some material suggesting trees and rocks, the ground could be imitation of snow covered sand and ocean. It’s an interesting image though and a great find that you might want to revisit