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by ubique

Comment:
Paul, not all improvisational theaters have same quality. Your is one of a kind.
Street photography is about showing up with nothing in mind and This essay is about what occurred to me – what I reacted to

If someone would like again to shake you long and hard to extract more explanations, you just show this magnificent essay of yours.
With your kind permission, and I know that I have it since your essay is in public domain, I might produce it each time I lack "le mot juste", the concision or the sparkle to shed some light on this subject.
I marvel at the image-word coexistence.

I take another snippet: photographer is imposing a transformative personal influence on reality. - we do see what we can according to our internal mechanism - I stand by what I believe: I see, therefore I am a seer. We stand before the same subject that is never really the same for everybody. I am not sure that we influence the reality as you stated but that whatever we call reality has facets and we can never totally absorb it in its entirety. We are both seekers and seers.

I find a privilege, a great joy and a feast for the mind to look at anything you post.

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by sfalice

Comment:
Having just turned back form LA your pictures are as exotic for CA as one could imagine. Have to remind myself that CA is a BIG place and has more than we can imagine, (we, people from the East Coast). There is even the quaint clapboard church an the amazing landscape almost from the Alps …. and all under a melodious name of Nicasio with a village counting 96 souls.
Your pictures made me search more. Lovely stuff.

Nine Blocks
by Paul

Comment:
To see "my" city through different eyes is always a treat.
The 9 picture format is very suitable for condensing this multitude that is Manhattan - after all, we talk about an island.
The "passive look" that ubique mentioned comes in my opinion from the fact that you took your shots in touristy places in Midtown, save for the one with the man reading the paper by the park on Fifth Ave.
Come back and get immersed in the street life.
Each picture is beautiful on its own - it must have beed a very sunny day that made you choose such a contrasty look.
I thoroughly enjoyed your shots.

Week 9 - Seahawks Victory Parade
by Ann

Comment:
The little girl is amazing! You could enlarge her head for a great portrait

Ravages of Time
by Elaine

Comment:
Portrait of an old leaf. It tells so many stories!

In the city
by Melethia

Comment:
Lovely, lovely shot! Great DOF

RiversideEagle_4564DPC
by hahn23

Comment:
Looks huge! I prefer seeing it in your shot than in real life! Congrats for the front page

same as it ever was....
by LoVi

Comment:
good point - plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (the more that changes, the more it's the same thing)

dames in the dungeon
by tanguera

Comment:
Hope you post this in a larger size also.
Congrats for the way you approached the challenge topic, the props, the models, the tonality… it's enjoyable and highly professional.
I see it as part of a cycle more than in itself. I'd like you to continue with the sketched intention of this shot and add more humor or drama or contrast. Make a Marie Antoinette folder, add a few Mary Sturats or consorts of Henry VIII ...

I read the news today, oh boy...
by Bear_Music

Comment:
I had a lot of trouble appreciating this shot on my i-pad (and God knows why I cannot vote on the i-pad). Therefore I look at it now and shake your hand.
An amazing photograph Robert. I would print it and stare at it.
You immersed the viewer in all the fog of the world and ashes and flames and in an underwater chocking moment and ultimately in hope