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

His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
by rooum

Comment:
I’ve read this sentence before somewhere and had to google it; it’s a title of a book in Oprah’s reading club.
I’ll stay with the photograph because I like a lot its look reminiscent of a magic lantern glass slide. In our days of intense sharpness, vivid colors, HDR and such, this type of image has a very attractive vulnerability. The undulating line of the horizon is musical (alas, there is a little halo there)

Sci-Fi
by mqnaufal

Comment:
Some of us can remember the 60s when there were these predictions of what the 20th century might bring: pills instead of food, robots in charge of everything, architecture yet to amaze us by its out-of-this-planet look…
We played with simple pieces of lego, we were half in electronic noise, half in earth-centered paganism, we imagined people dressed in white overalls, Bond- James Bond paraphernalia and so on.
And here is a contemporary photograph of a 21st century place, Hong Kong or Japan, who knows, built somehow the way we played with our building blocks; the city of the future is the city of the present and there are these ant like things under the suspension spider web concoctions that probably move by themselves or with remote controls operated by invisible things. In any case, there are no people in the urban sprawl.
A deft photograph.

Buddha nature pervades the whole universe
by Tiberius

Comment:
I wish I did not read the title. I don’t want to be fed with a big spoon. Wished I could have thought: here is a reclining man, a modern Buddha in his last stage, during his last illness after he accessed full insight and arrived at the real enlightenment… or something of a kind, about the death and rebirth and the acceptance of life, about the wisdom that we have to discover by ourselves after a journey from which that no one can spare us.
An ineffable calmness invades the viewer and this is what it’s all about.
The horizontal lines and an almost imperceptible tilt are full of graciousness.

9:17:32
by chazoe

Comment:
Our eyes perceive this image in a pinwheel movement trying to find a resting place to give us an answer but there is not such thing and we are forever searching. There are all kinds of elements here. There is graciousness, power, tiredness, acceptance, fear, violence and in the end some hope. It’s an imperfect photograph of an imperfect world. It belongs to a series of snapshots on a theme that only this photographer knows about. The awakening of ideas.