pet rocks never wake
by jmritz

Comment by oldbimmercoupe:
if this was taken on President Cheney's land, then we could try to find W. */* great idea. gl.

sacrifice
by jmritz

Comment by posthumous:
I think this is the only monument in the challenge that is crying.

oh dear
by jmritz

Comment by 2mccs:
There have been times when I have read something that Paul ubique (or Don posthumous) has (have) written and my first instinct is to comment by agreeing with his (their) brilliant comment instead of thinking of an original comment of my own. I have always resisted that impulse. But, to heck with that. Everything Paul said. 1+ to Paul's comment. 100+++ to Paul's comment.

John, you are an amazing artist. DPC is so lucky to have you.

bag lady
by jmritz

Comment by Lydia:
Hahahahaha! I'm lovin' it!

sacrifice
by jmritz

Comment by PennyStreet:
the light is a killer.

the ache inside
by jmritz

Comment by pointandshoot:
Ahhhh....

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