Pairs of sorts
by mitalapo

Comment:

Originally posted by ubique: I'm not saying much about the essay. It's fun, diverting and good to the last drop. Yum. Can I have another cup, please? Others have reacted to your essay much as I'd have tried to do, so contributing one more of those doesn't much interest me. Instead, I'm commenting about you. You know that I've always appreciated your work. You must, from the many comments you've inspired from me. And I mean appreciated in both senses ... as in applauded and as in understood. Here's what I love, and it's demonstrated yet again in the idea for this essay: you have always used photography as a path to observation. And now I mean observation in both senses, as in seen and as in remarked upon. For you, photography doesn't seem to be anything more nor less than a language. Most photographers produce photographs that say, "Aren't I just amazing?" Your photographs say, "Aren't you curious?" Thank you for that difference.

That is so very kind of you, Paul. In a way it brings closure to something: you were the one to introduce me to Paolo Pellegrin's observation that an unfinished open-ended work allows viewers to chime in and take part in a dialogue around a photograph. I only try to incite a conversation, which more often than not I find to be way more interesting than the art or the artist.

Pairs of sorts
by mitalapo

Comment:

Originally posted by mariuca: A splendid idea this Pairs of Sorts and a great approach to the topic. Now what I think that the next step could be to make a book and at the end (or beginning) put a table of contents (or errata) with a thumb of each image and Don's text. I'll buy it on the spot. And since I am fond of rhymes: We are a perpendicular pair, going no every where. I am purple. You are pink. We complement, I think. Don

That's a great idea. Especially since based on one of Don's texts I have reasons to believe he is actually a witch. I dare him telling which and why.

Window Dressing
by GeneralE

Comment:
nicely set, and thank you for the guidelines

boots and leaves
by aezlxa

Comment:
A self fulfilling shot that looks down hard.
A lonely 7 from me, as I thought of it highly.

Where the Water Runs Slow
by insteps

Comment:
Moody, to say the least. The strict way you lay out the objects in your images along with the distinct b/w treatment has become your signature. The hands/dog shot is exquisite. Thank you.

and she was
by jagar

Comment:
I like how she floats (and I get the hint, so ten it is)

have a balloon for an enhanced floatation

don't break a rule
by jmritz

Comment:
she hid a broken rule behind her back, I believe

super emo
by gintay

Comment:
nice portrait

orange light
by lei_73

Comment:
I like the guesswork

Uncle Ernie Proves Us All Wrong
by wbanning

Comment:
good job