5
by salmiakki

Comment:
I find this shot unbearable sweet.
Gauguin would have painted it. You took a magnificent picture. A favorite

1
by salmiakki

Comment:
You made a beautiful essay.
You show the peaceful and mystical life of the river. Things happen, people come, look at eat, gaze, collect stuff, boats slide silently, birds visit and circle around and the river gently continues its voiceless course.
The places you saw make me dream. Do post more pictures please.

depression7
by vawendy

Comment:
Interestingly enough you did not post on your portfolio the first image that I saw on your link for this essay. I don't miss it since these are the most powerful ones.
They are highly introspective. Each one formulates another question and asks for some explanation. I do not associate any with the title you gave your essay but this is a minor thing. You asked yourself a few important things and you only will generate an answer.
I feel like you will need to elaborate more on each image, to continue each thread, each idea. I look forward to it.
My favorites are the least "abstract" pictures where I can recognize your unique way of looking and processing: this picture, #2 the little bear and #3 that could be titled "who are we, where are we going…."
You continuously strive for more ways in your photography and I salute you for this.

A collection of names
by herfotoman

Comment:
Beautiful display! Like a Chinese silk hanging scroll.
If you look at the description of a scroll, the artwork in the middle of the scroll is called huaxin (畫心; literally "painted heart").[1] or, as here, fire flowers.
A lovely idea.
A special thank for the little blossoming tree associated to my name. I am so happy with it that I'll print it, with your permission.

image one
by PennyStreet

Comment:
You produced an anti-essay if there is such a thing. On the other hand, there is a great collection of images very useful for a writer or as evidence for an analyst, should you choose to go cure the winter blues, the exasperation, the racing thoughts and some post insomnia symptoms.
I particularly like picture # 5, 6, 8 and 12 and that tells you something about my above mentioned symptoms!
As always, I'm your fan.

sunday (1)
by tnun

Comment:
You made another splendid flip book.
This one inspires me greatly. Perhaps the tonality, or the subject, the two parts of the scenes, the fog ….?
(I see the world most of the time in still images also)
My mind went directly to Hesse's "The Bead Glass Game" - Le Jeu de perles de verre - I suspect here also some of the dichotomy between technology and economics and the life of the mind.

we tend our plants
by daisydavid

Comment:
we walk our sands, we reach for water and air, we tend our plants, we wander the land …
… and yet …. you left us wanting for more. There is this "yet" that you need to continue.

I love the idea and (save for the too direct approach in the picture with the hand) the marvelous layering and hints. The magic of the flora is an all encompassing picture on its own.

A real treat

the secret life of waves
by Cuttooth

Comment:
Just stunning!
Your essay is a bit wicked; it entices one the way the Sirens lured Ulysses.
The photos are as daring as the subject, the tonality is mysterious, threatening and seductive and the entire essay has an end-of-the-world feel
Congratulations Mark. Superb work.

Pacific Beach. Winter. 1
by LevT

Comment:
Lev, this is so nostalgic that it gives the sweet pain that we call Proustian.
How one can smell the ocean, hear along the beautiful music the shrills of the birds and the hiss of the waves lays in the magic of the photographer.
Congratulations for a splendid essay.

-1-
by 2mccs

Comment:
I see that you had 143 viewers - 45 times of them must be me!
I fell in love with the technique in which you presented your dance macabre. It's undoubtedly photography with some nodding to charcoal drawing: the erasures make the magic here.
Your pictures are somehow reminiscent of some of William Kentridge work.
I do have a favorite although I would not take it outside this wonderful essay.