S T O R M
by Bear_Music

Comment:
This is a nice frame for the image. I can't really believe I'm commenting about a frame (I'll be lecturing you about the Rule of Thirds next, or blathering about 'distractions'). But it is. This absorbing photograph is definitely elevated by the choice of framing.

I've never agreed with all this carping about photographs not needing frames, or not needing titles. Just yesterday I read a forum comment from some twit saying that "if a photograph needs a title, the photographer has failed". What absolute balderdash! By that logic Milton's Paradise Lost would instead be known as Untitled – and we can't find it either. And The Mona Lisa would probably be filed under Chicks, Enigmatic, No 56392.

If frames are 'distracting', if titles are an admission of failure, then the person calling them so must have the imagination and intellectual curiosity of a fire bucket. An empty fire bucket.

Thank you Bear, for so graciously hosting my impromptu rant.

For Elliott Erwitt
by pawdrix

Comment:
Erwitt would probably like the laughing dog best. Me too.

Fix
by Retroesque

Comment:
At least they don't screw around with sanctimonious bullshit about 'sharing the planet' and 'ethical sourcing' from coffee growers with cute little brown-eyed children.
FIX: As we said back in the 1960's, "What it is, man!"

Derailing
by trevytrev

Comment:
Art? On the tracks? Oh, dear!
Did you know that "Ubique" is Latin for Casey Jones?

Love of Chair
by krnodil

Comment:
Kitchens and now chairs? Get out of the house, girl! It's 104° outside (well, it is where I am).

This is very nice though.

by pawdrix

Comment:
And I'd counted on some kind of Pole Dancer title for this.

H A R S H • B A B Y
by Bear_Music

Comment:
You been smokin' that stuff again? Robert; the sixties are over, man! (I know, it seems like only yesterday. Me too)

Childhood Lost
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
Oh, crikey!

mama
by ErinM

Comment:
My all-time, all-species favourite creature is the goat. The noble Capra. Intelligent, clean, astonishingly clever, loyal, provider of great cheese and wonderful (almost magical) fiber, and on top of all that they will happily eat almost anything.

If goats could talk (and I'm pretty sure they can ... they just choose to keep their own counsel) I am quite sure they would say, "Why are you humans so damn sentimental about dolphins? We are the smartest and most endearing animals! We just prefer to not demean ourselves by leaping through hoops and tail-walking backwards just for a few lousy fish."

Morning Service
by Germaine

Comment:
That is very cool! All our old churches are reborn as new churches. No imagination, us.