The Nightmare fence
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Well, by now you know what I'm going to say, so I don't need to say it. (hic!)

Thanks for a month full of most excellent surprises, Andi.

Country Road
by trevytrev

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Originally posted by tph1: This was a fun month, wasn't it? Some of the best photos were ones with no focal point, like this one. Go figure. Nice work, Trev. I will look for more of your stuff. Tom

Yep, I agree. I think it's because they exist somewhere in the never-never land, between abstract and not quite. I love looking at them more than once because they change with the moment.

Thanks for all the images and the comments, Trevor.

Transcendence
by luvmyaussie

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Originally posted by AJHopp: What would you like to know? :o)

Innocent, eh? Yeah, that's what they all say. Listen, Hopp ... we can do this the hard way, or the easy way. We know you made this photograph, with these amazing bronzy tones! It's got your fingerprints all over it. So you might as well make it easy on yourself and come clean. How'd you get that transcendent toning?

Wilson 4
by Art Roflmao

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Wilson? Is that you?
I thought this guy drowned when he fell of Tom Hanks's raft?

one good lady
by jmritz

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Originally posted by tnun: ... vortex of details ... this beautifully plangent portrait.

Oh God, this photograph is just getting better and better as it is itself aging! I am thrilled that so many have been moved to think and write with such feeling about this extraordinary photograph.

Abstract Abstractionist
by pawdrix

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Beret? Is he wearing a beret? I hope so. I have about 50 hats (honestly) and not one beret. I was waiting to get old enough ... maybe I have waited too long?

Very cool shot of a shot. I love those cars!

Message edited by author 2009-01-30 21:00:40.

stroll
by ErinM

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I had (still have) the impression that he is relatively still and the scene is revolving about him.

all that remains
by ErinM

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A clutch of spent flowers pressed between parchment pages, and thus made immortal. Lovely.

Tree and guy
by Melethia

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After reading that other ghastly thread, I hope it will give you a chuckle if I assure you that this would not have been a 3! (I only hope that its replacement doesn't turn out to have been so, 'cause I'll feel absolutely dreadful.)

This one has everything that I hope for in a photograph ... ambiguity; a tantalising blend of the implicit with the explicit; a stimulating juxtaposition; exceptionally beautiful restrained tones; and a graphic elegance and aesthetic that exists independent of the actual subject matter. It even has a killer title. I could look at it for a very long time indeed, and I am in fact doing so now. I will not lie to you Deb ... if it had been entered in Single Tree, I promise you I would have chosen it as Best in Challenge. And awarded it the Order of the Thumb, which I now do anyway.


Message edited by author 2009-01-30 21:03:17.

HMF_8326.jpg
by hanneke

Comment:
More please. The light and the concept/composition are really exquisite. You took on a massive tonal range this time, and still managed the exposure perfectly.