Ghetto Tattoo
by TooCool

Comment:
I love it. It is deceptively simple, but from own paltry experience as a photographer I know how hard it is to tell a story with an image. And this image conveys an act with astonishing purity. It is quite simply a picture of one person giving a "tattoo" to another person. The face of the person giving is not seen: he is pure action. His arms are featured. For the receiver, only one arm is visible and that's because it is the canvas. We are allowed to see her face, because she is the object. But her eyes are closed, she is utterly passive.

But this is just the surface! By having the story of the photo be so obvious, the viewer is allowed to venture to what I consider the heart of the photo, and that is how comfortable they are with each other. There is something so loving about how he holds her hand. And notice how they both lean forward, as if going to lie down. All in all, this photo seems like nothing so much as a metaphor for relationships: the mutual trust, the adopting of active and passive roles to get certain things done, the way he decorates her life.

flying
by bucket

Comment:
G*@$dda&*^@MM!!

Day 26 - Weary
by MaryO

Comment:
ok, I am so totally biased about dog pictures right now. Just so you know. This perfectly captures a feeling that I've been trying to capture with my dog, and it does it with a crisp clear sharpness instead of all that noise that I generate. Lovely composition with a diagonal movement from darkness to light, or vice versa.

I don't know Shane's real age, but this for me is the Old Dog, the Good Old Dog, the one who knows you much better than you know him, the one who is a pain in the ass to take care of but who would give his life to take care of you. This is one of those rare photos that DPC would love and that I also love.

Picture 149ThePanzFrame.jpg
by pawdrix

Comment:
dang, it's too big! (I bet you've heard that before) Okay, now you have to wait until tomorrow so I can look at it on my big flatscreen at work. ... took the day off, furnace problems. but you are still on my radar. Tomorrow!

Message edited by author 2006-11-09 21:32:32.

Close Clearance
by magenmarie

Comment:
I gave this a 7. Pictures I like get 7 or higher. I liked the strange diagonal on the wall of the building, and how each building seems to be at a different angle. I like when a picture disorients me like that. I like the blown out sky for where the rails disappear, but not as much up top where the tree leaves look scraggly and have no detail or texture. But I love the overall composition, where the diagonals of the buildings compete with the more expected perspective diagonals of the train tracks.

Another reason I didn't go over 7, besides the scraggly leaves, was that the sign you made your title wasn't very interesting to me. I'd've liked it better if you tore the sign down and left me with YRAMID LO CLANTON. No one would mind if you tore a little sign down, would they? :)

Model Shot
by Givemeashot

Comment:
The "raking light" (thank you, BearMusic!) does a good job of showing his muscles. I like the dark shadows, but I feel they would be more effective with different framing. A tighter crop would allow them to create some interesting negative space. Right now you've got this huge field of black on the left that is doing nothing. I realize that this is the hip thing to do at DPC, but it doesn't make any sense unless there is some reason for it, and there almost never is, though unicum pulled it off in his portrait in landscape entry.

Yeah, simply chopping off the left side of this photo would improve it tremendously, imho. The fact that he's looking away from the space does slightly invoke themes of loss or leaving something behind, but it is both too tenuous and too cliched. Leave just a little black space there and the same point will be made less sentimentally.

edited for sex change operation

Message edited by author 2006-11-08 15:47:01.

Ebb and Flow
by mpeters

Comment:
This is ribbony, but what is it really saying, anyway? Do my grandchildren need to see this?

Candle on the Hearth
by ldrider51

Comment:
ET WT 22 OZ (623.7g)

two and a half seconds of fairground fun
by PurpleFire

Comment:
yuck, what's with that thing on his tongue??

Silver Streams
by OdysseyF22

Comment:
black and white is a nice touch, but I want one or two more nice touches. 6