they wandered not
by mitalapo

Comment by ubique:
An endlessly interesting photograph. All the players are in different spatial dimensions, as if a family's generational portraits have been animated and are hesitantly gathering for an occasion of great moment; someone is lost, in one way or another.

The most thrilling thing about this photograph is its originality. It's not like anything else I've seen, and that's hard to do in this age of images beyond counting. It may just be the beard, but I'm reminded of those morally enigmatic Russian plays and stories by Chekov (Anton, not the Star Trek bloke) ... the questions asked by your picture are all pretty much left unresolved.

So much better to look at a photograph and be unsettled than to be reassured. Why, as a photographer, settle for doing the same old thing when you can be as ambitious and audacious as this?

A stellar photograph, and my equal top pick. 10, thank you, and the curse of the Order of the Thumb be upon you.

they wandered not
by mitalapo

Comment by PennyStreet:
a new world around every corner. what a shot!

12/52 -
by mitalapo

Comment by mariuca:
Nice juxtaposition between the formality of the building (Paris? Vienna?) and the enthusiastic crowd.

11/52 - great chaos
by mitalapo

Comment by mariuca:
Great chaos! Where is it?

not even a mirror
by mitalapo

Comment by markwiley:
This one really caught my eye. Excellent.

they wandered not
by mitalapo

Comment by figaro:
A maze of corners and of the marginalised. An image that becomes more stunning every time I look at it.

not even a mirror
by mitalapo

Comment by Lydia:
7 love the urban setting

11/52 - great chaos
by mitalapo

Comment by jomari:
Love it! I love the entanglement of the reflection and the viewed-through and the on-the-surface, and all beautifully framed.

10/52 - open for interpretation
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Comment by Germaine:
This is certainly open for interpretation! Good shot and processing.

not even a mirror
by mitalapo

Comment by bmartuch:
Love the feel of motion.