The Great Vanishing
by Kelli

Comment:
To take a creature in captivity and yet dignify it by its circumstances is a remarkable achievement. So many such pictures manage to be merely mawkish. This one is sad, also gracious and ultimately beautiful, but certainly never sentimental. Congratulations. It's on my 2010 imaginary wall. Thank you.

Byzantium - Constantinople - Istanbul
by Pascal

Comment:
Best landscape, without a doubt. Onto my imaginary 2010 wall for further admiration. Thank you.

The Contestant
by karmat

Comment:
While I'm not a fan of the slightly idealised processing, the inspired composition stamps all over my petty bias and leaves it bleeding. Finally a guitar photograph at DPC that is worth a longer look. And this one is worth several, which is why I'm hanging in on my imaginary 2010 wall. Thank you.

Legacy
by jmritz

Comment:
I admit to being captivated by this picture, as I am by others of similar ambition. It's the same feeling I get from looking at contemporary sculpture, or from eating really good sushi ... that my experience of the thing is a part of the thing, that it is meaningless without my engagement with it. Or that I am meaningless without my engagement with it, which is even more exciting. Here the faint marks seem to be more about memory than about any current reality; and the title is so apt for that mood. I'd put this on my imaginary 2010 wall, and be stirred every time I passed by it. Thank you.

tkaronto
by wolf

Comment:
I don't like city skyline at night pictures, but this one is a splendid exception. Just enough of everything, not too much of anything. And the bold tilt outweighs the by now tiresome frame as well. On my imaginary 2010 wall for sure. Thank you.

Irish Mug
by smyk

Comment:
Excellent. Deceptively offhand, because it's actually perfectly executed. I reckon you've thought this out much more carefully than an undiscriminating first glance would suggest. Best mug shot of the year and it goes onto my 2010 imaginary wall. Thank you.

quorum
by bspurgeon

Comment:

Originally posted by herfotoman: Shipwrecked boats straining to return to life.

I can't top that.

For sale
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
As you should be, Steve, 'cause it's very cool indeed.

Another version please? In glorious mono with the shadow detail suppressed and the chrome as hero? Remember some of RKT's incomparable hotrod & custom shots?

BTW how much was they askin? I'd buy it if it was here, or I was there. It's just about the same age as me, as it happens. And in similar condition; more or less original, a few bits missing, needs some TLC.

Disdain
by reephoto

Comment:
I love horse pics, but only if they offer something different. This is a big helping of that! Onto my imagined 2010 wall, where it will attract the admiration of all my visitors, and mine as well. Thank you.

untitled
by bspurgeon

Comment:
It's simply lovely, and yet a little melancholy too. A common enough combination of qualities, but this time executed with rare skill and feeling. Onto my imagined 2010 wall it goes, and I thank you.