When I drink alone, I prefer to be myself
by jdannels

Comment:
I think the given title is a) more interesting as a variant (slowing the reading/more time spent looking at the image) and b) just a little more profound, if only for questioning a cliche.

In the richest country in the world, Why?
by Nobody

Comment:
As if the nature of some comments on this image provided an answer to the question its title poses... cynically.

22
by sevilduvarci

Comment:
A pick-pocket in flagranti.

The Partisan
by ladibug

Comment:
I found about a dozen images of some interest to me in this challenge, six of which I enjoyed revisiting time after time. I call these "durable" photographs.

Two of the six were photographed, edited and presented in a manner consistent with the image itself (form and content were indistinguishable).

"The Partisan" is one of these two.

Day 4 - Folds & Curves
by sherpet

Comment:

Originally posted by ursula: ...Sharpness where there's supposed to be sharpness, softness where softness needs to be, great shapes, flowing lines...

Yes.

There is also an exquisite balance between the translucent and the opaque, between gradating tones and the solid and an ever so slight ambiguity about the dimensions, which awards us a more sustained interest than in something solely so and not otherwise.

Even the noise is something to be enjoyed here, considering an image of lines and edges.

run
by boysetsfire

Comment:
"Not half-bad", as they say in my neck of the woods.

Cobra Charmer
by TOY

Comment:
Beautiful portrait of a fascinating and strikingly interesting model, a photographer's model, to be sure, apparently as much in sync with herself as with the photographer and an idea of pure form.

I am amazed at the seamless integration of the many parts and processes that appear to have been combined here as if incidentally, without artifice or strain. Neither could I imagine of a better way to highlight and present the unique features of the young lady. The pose reflects the manner of photography as much as the care and thought the image evokes as a whole.

acutely obtuse
by yanko

Comment:
The lamp and the toning - gorgeous!

Cobra Charmer
by TOY

Comment:
7

• Voyager •
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Brutal (self-?) portraiture, if then it must be catagorized as such.

It is, beyond any appearance, mystery or conjecture, the face of a man engaged in an existential dialogue, perhaps as much with himself as with forces beyond his control. Framing a face mouthless and at such intimate proximity, head-on and so bloody real, does little for portraiture or any manner of it. It does, however, shine a light on the human condition that leaves little doubt and might wake a shrewd idea of beauty which has nothing to do with aesthetics and everything with the predicament of life.

It is an arresting photograph, IMO, because it has something to say to those who can bear (pun intended) looking. Whatever technical finesses have gone into it will go as unnoticed as they should be, serving good reason instead of flattering Circe or the sentiment of decorators.

On my bitching scale (it embraces the dead as well as the living), it would be a 7. Here, I need to award it a 10.