sourthern california #3
by bspurgeon

Comment:
That cow looks unnaturally long... is it perhaps a bulb cow?

My Winter Friend
by jcar

Comment:
Well this is excellent! The photograph sucks a wee bit, but it's all the better for that because it's so apt for this modest but truly beautiful little snowman. He is quite perfect, immensely engaging and it's clear why you felt about him as you do (did). I hope he comes back next year, and in the meantime your photograph will look great hanging on my imaginary 2010 wall. I'll smile every time I see it. Thank you.

- I N C U B A T I O N -
by mycelium

Comment:
Beautiful. A glimpse inside creation (I mean real creation of course, not that other nonsense). There's something very moving about it, something about the fragility of existence. The tenuous hold we have on our own future. But its tone is optimistic, not defeatist. I'd be elevated every time I saw it, which I will because it is definitely on my imaginary 2010 wall of excellence. Thank you.

FOCUS
by DKZ

Comment:
Magnificent moggy. The intensity of the gaze makes me feel as if I were a ball of wool, or a mouse. The only cat portrait on my imaginary 2010 wall. Thank you.

Japonais
by zeuszen

Comment:
Well, yes indeed it is ... in style, in spirit, and also (with a bit of imagination) in cartographic terms. It's a beautiful thing, and effortlessly transcends the photographic medium. But I'd hang it on my imaginary wall of 2010 photographic excellence, because I don't have a wall of transcendent excellence yet. This definitely goes up there when I do. Thank you.

p a r i s
by bmilne

Comment:
I really like this photograph. There's a similar picture by someone good (it might be Eugène Atget) of a cathedral (it might be Notre Dame) seem through the branches of a tree (don't know what kind of tree), and yours is equally pleasing for the same reason; surprisingly satisfying juxtaposition, that elevates it from the humdrum. This goes onto my imaginary wall of 2010 excellence. Thank you.

Callum
by surfinbird

Comment:
A really wonderful portrait that tells me you've taken the trouble to study the work of great photographers of the past, and to understand what they did any why. This is a gloriously anti-digital photograph, not just because of the distinctly analogue appearance of both the subject and of the 'print', but also because in concept it recalls an era when photographers had to make their impact with simple tools and clear ideas (instead of an oversupply of tools and an absence of ideas, as is the current fashion). In some ways this disarmingly direct portrait is in the style of Diane Arbus, in spite of the fact that this young bloke is rather more conventional-looking than were most of her subjects. Definitely a place for this one on my imaginary wall of 2010 excellence. Thank you.

by the pool
by mitalapo

Comment:
This is one of those delightful photographs that looks initially like an offhand shot of nothing much, and yet turns out to become more and more and more as the many layers of meaning and interest unfurl themselves. Some of the great street photographs are like that (I mean universally, not DPC's current street challenge) ... they look mild and yet reveal themselves to be profound, or at least special. Here the characters are arrayed as if for some kind of performance, a 'street' version of a chorus line perhaps, and I am irresistibly drawn to imagine speech bubbles all over the place, like in a comic strip. All those overlapping conversations, thoughts and asides. All the roles people adopt. Making your picture, for me, a wonderful tilt at communication and modern manners. The Importance of Being Earnest for the 21st century. This now hangs on my imaginary 2010 wall, entertaining me and confounding the janitors. Thank you.


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Pocket of Warmth
by CNovack

Comment:
Wonderful! I loved looking at it, which is why I must immediately hang it on my imaginary 2010 wall. Thank you.

Great-grandmother
by flaviamariani

Comment:
Just a flat-out good photograph of a beautiful, lively lady. A sense of great admiration between photographer and subject, flowing in both directions. It goes onto my imaginary 2010 wall. Thank you.