For aince it’s toomed my hert and brain, the thistle needs maun fa’ again.
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Comment by insteps:
Mariuca, thanks for the information. I don't navigate around this way very often as you can tell. Don, ignore my advice... I still think another format would display your work better though.

For aince it’s toomed my hert and brain, the thistle needs maun fa’ again.
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Comment by mariuca:

Originally posted by insteps: Because many of these are challenge entries it's difficult to navigate. When I click "next image" I get another persons photograph.

Henry, don't look at the top left corner of the screen but at the second rectangle. Under Don's portfolio there is the entire forest and it's the easiest thing to go forward or backward.

For aince it’s toomed my hert and brain, the thistle needs maun fa’ again.
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Comment by insteps:
Many interesting photographs that require a longer look. I do like your images in groups so the photo essay is a natural fit.

Because many of these are challenge entries it's difficult to navigate. When I click "next image" I get another persons photograph. So the process of moving from picture to picture get in the way of your story. The only solution I can come up with is to load a second copy of each image to your portfolio so they are not tied to a challenge. Although this might help, it still wouldn't do your work justice. I really want to see your photographs along side poetry on a webpage where you have more control over format and presentation.

For aince it’s toomed my hert and brain, the thistle needs maun fa’ again.
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Comment by ubique:
I don't know what to say. It seems like you're viewing yourself with a certain amount of Guinness-enhanced bravura, and I wonder if you shouldn't have been born as a sozzled Irishman instead of a gentleman Yankee. I think it's splendid to be so self-aware, and yet so apparently insecure at the same time. It teases out very attractive threads of consciousness that stay well knotted for most of the rest of us. Some of these pictures are quite brilliant, and some are clunkers when viewed in the unflattering light of the morning after. But for a modern iteration of Mr Leopold Bloom, that hardly matters ... he's described as a man of appetites, and this collection speaks of appetites, I reckon. But I give you only 50% as Leopold Bloom, and the other 50% is Ignatius J Reilly. These photographs as individual mug shots don't automatically implicate Bloom nor Reilly, but taken together as an essay they make the two fabulous identities jostle for pole position in your visual autobiography. I've stolen a picture (by Joyce himself) of Leopold Bloom for you. Ignatius we will leave aside, at the mercy of the caprices of his pesky valve.

For aince it’s toomed my hert and brain, the thistle needs maun fa’ again.
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Comment by mariuca:
Don, it's easy to get lost in your forest where you get tangled also.
You might want to give us a clue, perhaps versified, perhaps in rearranging this deck of cards in quatrains or by the number of heart beats or trochees?
I do not like to point to my favorites; actually when I walked for the third time into this forest I found them in earlier comments.

I think that this first photograph as a starting point is just glorious. I did not see it before since I found that I never looked or voted in that challenge. Same for other shots (shots in the dark or taken directly into the light)

Oh, here I go again walking the tightrope!

For aince it’s toomed my hert and brain, the thistle needs maun fa’ again.
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Comment by jin_tonic:
....lost in the forest of who I am....

Sigh.... I'm lost in navigating....

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The Iris Opal
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Comment by MadMan2k:
I like it. Such a mysterious photo, and good wording.

The Iris Opal
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Comment by Elaine:
This is interesting, but does not work as a jewelry advertisement for me.

For aince it’s toomed my hert and brain, the thistle needs maun fa’ again.
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Comment by salmiakki:
Don, there are lot of images in your photo essay and I noticed that I haven't looked at some of them earlier. Of the ones I had seen earlier, looking at them in the context of a challenge topic, I confess there was quite a big difference between the scores. Partially that is due to the evolution of the voters taste :) One thing I notice however, that as a collection of images they work much better than as stand alone pieces. Thanks for sharing and doing what you do.

milkweed
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Comment by MadMan2k:
I don't know that B&W was the best choice for this one - the milkweed pod sort of blends in with the lighter part of the background, at the top half of the frame.