Pink drive by
by Melethia

Comment:
This is very effective for me; composition is strong, with the open garage on the left adding depth into the shot that I almost feel I could walk into, standing behind the seated figure, watching, myself only a blur.

walking in the rain
by timfythetoo

Comment:
There is a wonderful flow here to this, where the elements merge and melt together (melt is probably the better word for what I'm seeing). The car turns into a mass of street/road which melts into the sidewalk. Dynamic, but subtle in many respects, too.

euro07-080bw.jpg
by kevip6

Comment:
He's not walking by, and he's not hidden. We're not seeing left to right motion blur, but the building sucking his essence into its core. Part of him is already missing, so it looks blurry, but we know the real story. I'm not going anywhere near that place!

by boysetsfire

Comment:
It's amazing to me how much the crop did for this, how it changed the focal point of the image to the boy, and emphasized even more the (effective) use of blur here. Perception is a funny thing.

A Good Book for Company
by Wildcard

Comment:
This for me is primarily a candid, and the blur (as has been said) works in that respect to add to that feeling; it is a shot, though, that I think would not be substantially different had the focus been sharp.

reflected
by jdannels

Comment:
Interesting feeling of motion here, and the tones add to the feeling of blur that isn't uniform throughout. Nice touch.

her soul
by whiteroom

Comment:
This, for me, is one of those dreams that morphs into a nightmare, and this is the point of morphing. It's been pleasant until now, if not a little disjointed, with abrupt changes in place and lack of a true linear narrative, and then suddenly - BAM! Time to wake up . . .

day 1. summer babies
by ShannonLee

Comment:
Not nonsense, beautiful. So much clarity through the blurred elements; a painting of life in all its wonder.

Victorian Slideshow
by posthumous

Comment:
A reaction (since you asked in the reaction club): Something about this made me feel sad, almost profoundly so. Some of it was the subject matter, something that obviously once held memories for someone, something important enough to shoot on slide, yet now gone, forever, unrecoverable, lost. The way the damage appears, especially in the film and the left slide, increased the strength of that reaction in me. The use of the plants and the drawing brought me back a bit, making me feel the slides were not so lost; why give preference to the originally captured image? Just because it had the luck of being first in time? Maybe this is how these slides should be used, not holding some out of focus image of a model on a car hood or darkness because the photographer had his finger over the lens, but interacting with life and beauty and making art. There was still something, though, that pushed me back toward sadness, and until I read the comments, I didn't realize that it was the space in the lower left corner. Compositionally this works for me, great lines and flow. But given the subject matter and its arrangement, the lower left space adds to the feeling of sadness for me. There's just something . . .

P.S. If you can't tell, I like it a lot. (edited for clarity)

Message edited by author 2007-07-26 03:00:34.

I'm not religious
by hanneke

Comment:
I see here a person holding a religious statuette (sorry, I'm not religious enough to guess which one); the story I read in it is one of quiet desperation, as if by simply holding on long enough, some thing so desired or needed will happen.

Technically, the tones and details are wonderful, and the dark, gritty skin against the whiter (purer?) tones of the statuette fit wonderfully with the theme of the image. There are some bits I'm not sure about; the lower part of the face distracts me, I think because the expression is very ambiguous. Either a different, more emotive expression, or cropping out the lips would have strengthened the feel for me. The other thing is the position of the hands, which aren't really gripping, but are sort of holding, cradling (which is good). I put my hands in that position and it was very natural, but it doesn't look so in the image. I'm not sure what would change that for me (maybe more of the left arm, or a little more of both of them).