getting the almost finger
by jmritz

Comment:
Pose and angle create much drama. My favorite detail is her left hand Holding something or nothing as close as possible to herself.

you get the idea
by mitalapo

Comment:
Aristotle is the fool here. His physics can't explain these effects.

you first
by LevT

Comment:
A blue ribbon in a ubique challenge with a color photo. Add this to your long list of achievements. Congratulations!

ubique in tenebras cordis
by Bear_Music

Comment:
what exactly does it mean to take a brown in a ubique challenge? rebellion upon rebellion... Congratulations while I ponder this...

dia-ubique
by 2mccs

Comment:
I hope Paul goes around commenting as "dia-ubique" (because he's not in enough trouble already ahahhahahha)

Echoes
by vawendy

Comment:
I don't need a story. I'm a poet. ;)

hell, if I loved something I would just do it and I really wouldn't care what ubique or posthumous said.

grand illusions
by jagar

Comment:
I did give this an 8, but obviously I need to open my mind to the power of ugly vignettes! congratulations on getting the blue thumb for this, the ultimate achievement in this challenge.

you first
by LevT

Comment:
the secret of this photo is scale. the shadows seem impossibly big, and the woman seems overwhelmed but indifferent.


I'm hanging this in my fantasy gallery

storm boy
by Abra

Comment:
some photos look back at you. There's something to be said for this. It's like a car that has to turn once in a while or it will never get back home.

This look, back at us, eradicates other things the photo might be, like a study of textures. All of that is twisted into a backward look. The artistic experience is one of confrontation. The boy owns this photo as much as the viewer does.

It's a matter of degree. What can you do to moderate that powerful look? You make it small. You keep it in the center but you make it small, and you twist it away from the direction of everything else in the photo. Now the photo is active and alive and not some dead portrait of a stranger.


I'm hanging this in my fantasy gallery

parking supervisor
by Kathyc

Comment:
this photo has some life in it. The bird against the sky, of course, but also the way the bird is made part of the horizon, and is accompanied by other odd shapes, which we eventually realize is a dramatic landscape that you've robbed of drama, and replaced with a sense of quotidian randomness. the angle and composition with so much sky serve to emphasize the unimportance of what's on the ground. The line held up by no parking signs is broken. A pickup truck is parked, mocking the sentinel. Like all good humor, this has some tragedy in it. This is the sorrow and hilarity of how trivial our concerns are.


I'm hanging this in my fantasy gallery