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Comment by posthumous:
from blurgeois pedagogues:

This is exactly what a memory looks like. Have you noticed there are half a dozen different kinds of blur in this one photo? One of the things that an art teacher will tell you about drawing is to vary your line. You do this by changing the angle and pressure on your pen. The next time you look at a Hirshfeld caricature, notice the line width. That varying width is as crucial to the drawing as the lines themselves.

A line that changes implies a human hand and thereby imparts a humanity to the image. When an effect like blur can vary within one image, a similar sense is felt. The trick here is that the variations occur within reasonable expectations of how light behaves in a camera: in other words, it doesn't feel like it was added later in Photoshop. But at the same time, we are stunned at these variations. They have never occurred to us before: how the lamp posts are ghosts, while the facades are glowing, while the sign is bleeding, while the building on the left is sleeping, while the church is being crushed by its own piercing, like a splinter of ice.

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Comment by Germaine:
Amazing detail and bokeh.

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Comment by banmorn:
Marvelous DOF the detail takes a while to recede making one look longer and further into the subject.

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Comment by blad:
nice!

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Comment by MelonMusketeer:
Beautiful little capture. Ditto the DOF comment.
I think I need to sneeze now. : )

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Comment by bob350:
Beautiful. Usually I like macro photos to have better depth of field for the main subject, but this one works very well with the majority of the subject in a blur. Wouldn't change a thing.

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Comment by magenmarie:
mmmm...awesome dof. This is so soft and pretty.

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Comment by blad:
nice!

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Comment by Germaine:
Very nice selective focus.

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Comment by Jutilda:
I was thinking umbrella.