by boysetsfire

Comment:
This is a great shot. The dog should be blue or red or black, but...
if you look, you'll find him.
Sevil has a dark humour. :-)

Village Life
by SaraR

Comment:
Let's not strain to find flaws (some loss of detail in the brightest area: bottom right/wall; very tight crop under the shoes vs. the generous space allowed on top of the two subjects) in this pristine idyll of a photograph.

The available light, and the care afforded it, is delicious, making for a great depth and saitisfying textures. The timing, too, is good with the two elderly graces glancing along the sides of a 90º angle (a spatial third). While the one closest to us shows her face while touching the arm of her neighbour whose face is averted following a sound or sense down a somewhat concealed alley.

A intimate, well composed study with tastefully restrained colour and tone, which could hardly be better made, if it were painted.
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Baath Party Headquarters
by Melethia

Comment:
A nice piece of journalism...
I envy you for the photo opps, not for the danger that comes with it.

waiting for a gust of wind
by Amason

Comment:
Thank god for the rioting shrub in the foreground.
It anchors this image and brings out the range and depth of this vast, rugged land. The variegate greys of the sky provide drama, the interplay of light and shadow contributes much the same on the irregular land forms and the mossy greenery covering it.

The stark emptiness of the region speaks very clearly and serenely here, without any discernible evidence of man, except for the diminishing 'S' of a country road loosing itself to the hills.

I've never had the fortune to experience this part of the planet and appreciate the opportunity to view it as much as the care and manner of the photograph.

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Cape Spear Light
by KarenNfld

Comment:
Strong diagonal/S-curve and perspective (great depth because of it), excellent detail in both shadows and highlights, good (tasteful) colour rendition. Quite a satisfying, maritime landscape, well placed and seen in portrait format.

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Man n Meter
by Bernard_Marx

Comment:
Does this photograph hold any interest? The subject(s) are unspectacular, if not trite. The motion blur appears to effect stationary objects. A cyan cast muddies the entire image, bleeding from a crack in the concrete.

The image appears as if divided into three panes, suggested by the cracks outlining the poured concrete of a contemporary sidewalk. The vertical nearly halves the landscape orientation -not quite but just enough to offset any sense of symmetry. The horizontal runs so close to the upper margin it could be mistaken for it, if it were not for the offset vertical which is equally out, by the same margin.

Comparing the distance between the top of subject on the left (the hat) and the top horizontal with the distance between its counterpart on the right (meter foot to bottom margin), we have (suprise!) symmetry. When we accept the presence of the three panes (via perspective as outlined by margin and cracks), it is easy to find the subjects in their traditional third.

This (the tension between the respective orders as much as that between the two unlike subjects) is both subtle and playful enough an order to be enjoyable. The meter, now, appears to have been placed deliberately in this photograph, which might as well be a painting. Its foot, after all, could be made of blown glass, while its eye is as yellow as it is watchful and unblinking.

As it is, the man with the baseball cap must be captured in flight, waving evidence.

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Another Rainy Day
by figaro

Comment:
I

I'm sure there are many who can say "I recognize this man, the room, his story".
It's early afternoon or late afternoon and it's late, it is late now.
And it is time which is in his eye, the instant the shutter snaps and the sound
As empty as an hourglass.

And we have clocks and telephones, and the bed is made.
We have walls and a window and shoes for the feet to fall into.

II

Someone you know when someone you know
Turns out to be someone else you do not know at all.
And if you know him and you do not, then someone should
Try to give him a call. Do you not, do you not think so.

When someone has been and has seen
What he has, what it is he has acted upon
Where would we be, where would we be now.
If no one would be, who would be there to remind us.
Is it not, is it not that we know what we know because we have been us.

We are who we are because someone has seen us.
We are what we are because someone has bothered to look.
If no one had been, if no one had bothered to look,
Who could see in light of such darkness.

If no one was there, who would care,
What would be and what would become
Of so much and how much should be
Counted and spent and dead to the world.

Would one be needed, when so many go by.
Would the wind, would the wind
Tell us why.

And who would tell us , o tell, our tale.
And who would hold us, o tell, when we fall.

Who has brought us something to eat.
Who has shown us something we haven̢۪t seen.
We were hungry and cold and hard-headed.
Where we have been, who would go.

Message edited by author 2007-10-03 11:41:25.

crabsticks
by boysetsfire

Comment:
I thought it interesting you didn't crop out the foreground shadow, crab and all. It makes good sense to do as you did, too.
This way your subject puts in a brief and spectral appearance. He'll be gone in a blink, and the light's scarce enough to be sought out.

Requiescat In Pace
by NikonJeb

Comment:
1967 Mercedes Benz 200 Sedan.

Another Place
by salmiakki

Comment: