oh dear
by jmritz

Comment by ubique:
John, I love your stuff better than anyone's at DPC. Artist with camera, camera as charcoal. You and Jan Blessing stand alone (well, together alone) in that rare genre.

And the titles; your titles are the most breathtakingly economical poetry, and lose nothing in the enforced brevity. I'd renew my membership just for your titles.

So, here my immediate thought, in each case:

My heart plunges, and rises. A photograph with its own tremolo arm.

Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear?

I will be there. You just wait; I will be.

A soul falls, swoops, screaming and sparking.

Where now are the empty footsteps, the invisible shadows? What, am I alone?

Good Grief! What a picture, what a composition, what a sublime orchestration of tones and shapes and a single breath. Not a pixel too much or too few. Bloody miraculous.

Small smile at Winogrand. Big smile back, I imagine.

Thank God you made a noise.

Dorothea Lange's picture, from a different point-of-view.

Yes. No. Maybe. You can't say no, even crucified and all.

O say can you see?

Hey Joe.

Hey Joe ... That's probably it, the reason we connect; we two are of an age, teenagers in the 60s. Not much stuck to us after that.

Thank you.

Message edited by author 2015-05-03 09:49:38.

give them space to destroy
by jmritz

Comment by PaulFrocchi:
i like how soft this is. almost dreamlike. I didn't score it very high though (4) because the message wasn't clear to me personally. When I read the title, I was taken to Baltimore, which pulled me out of the image. I love the sentiment of it, and if it weren't on the heels of Baltimore it might have held me longer. Good Luck!!

give them space to destroy
by jmritz

Comment by oldbimmercoupe:
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pet rocks never wake
by jmritz

Comment by jgirl57:
LOL funny and def a shoe horn

today, over and over, today
by jmritz

Comment by ray_mefarso:
interesting composition. a bit low in contrast maybe

pet rocks never wake
by jmritz

Comment by smardaz:
i wont say dnmc but i will say pretty strong shoehorn you're using there

give them space to destroy
by jmritz

Comment by Lydia:
It's interesting that people think that other people need to be given space to destroy things that belong to others.

I do like your idea of them doing it inside a fence... designed to contain them... and their "space".


What an interesting image! Kudos to you.

horizon
by jmritz

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Kinda cool looking. I'll take your word for it.

horizon
by jmritz

Comment by tnun:
and now you show us that it is an illusion, but one under your control.

horizon
by jmritz

Comment by mitalapo:
I like the texture you created with a simple twist of the arm.