City
by bvy

Comment by Paul:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Brave blurriness, brave greyness too. It's like you've actually tried to make an anti-picture here. Reduce the scene to such banality that the drip marks on the glass become (by virtue of being removed from the banality of the city) the most interesting thing to gaze upon.

Critical stuff really: It is hard to 'like' the image - though I'm not sure we are supposed too.

Overall: In the conventional world, the photo becomes our guide, showing us a point of view and a way of viewing - it pulls out aspects of the world, frames them and makes them explicit and special. You've done the opposite here - "Don't look at the world"; "avert you gaze"; "It's not worth your attention".... An 'anti-picture'. Bold and thought-provoking.

City
by bvy

Comment by rooum:
Wonderful portrait of the City. In my top picks of the challenge. 10.

City
by bvy

Comment by ubique:
Very, very good. Juxtaposed verticals of streaked glass and city structure, and restrained tones: the wilful lack of definition brings more rather than less voice to the image, as is so often the case. Thank you.

City
by bvy

Comment by albc28:
I understand its through the window, but watermarks aren't much of a subject

City
by bvy

Comment by malva00:
I love how dirty this makes me feel

City
by bvy

Comment by EL-ROI:
Perhaps this would be better as part of a collection of images, a study of sorts. Standing alone, it is a smudge on the window with an out of focus background. It looses it's artistic value.

City
by bvy

Comment by goc:
awesome !!

Dream #8
by bvy

Comment by crik:
I love the depth here. Ghostly and masterful.

Dream #8
by bvy

Comment by colorcarnival:
I thought this was a spooky guy in a dark robe leading a chorus of other spooky guys in white-ish robes. I hope this doesn't get used as some psycho-analysis tool :D

Dream #8
by bvy

Comment by littlemav:
I thought it was a picture of a crowd of people... Sooooo Whatzit???