Boys
by MeMex2

Comment:
This reminded me immediately of Keith Carter's 'Fireflies'.

Just as an aside (please pardon the diversion), how good is Keith Carter? If I could see the work of only three photographers for the rest of my life, Keith Carter would be well-placed on the podium, clutching a trophy and beaming back at me.

But let's get right back to you and your picture. It's a really beautiful photograph, everything that a durable photograph should be. It's a photograph-as-object, so you'd better print it. Not big; not for the wall. Print it small, print it only once, and keep it in a drawer or a chocolate box, where all your most imperishable objects belong. Thank you.

toll
by NiallOTuama

Comment:
Why do I love pictures like this? Because they are like shifting sands; just when you think your footing is secure the earth moves under your feet (which would be a splendid song title, would it not?) Wanting to know exactly what something is, what it means, what its boundaries are, is a sad, dismal affliction that I am happy to have never suffered from. So you can throw this beautifully ill-defined stuff at me anytime, and I'll always love how it makes me feel. It makes me feel curious. It makes me feel excited. It makes me feel a fresh feeling every time I look at it.

Some people say that they want a spectacular landscape blown up large and hung on their wall. Other people want a picture of a flawless face with improbably-windblown hair and grotesquely pimped eyes. Often it's the very same people. Poor bastards.

On my wall I love stuff like this, where the experience is never over.

Here's the proof; your picture is (near enough) on my wall right now.

Thank you.

P.S.

Nirvana
by insteps

Comment:
I've just been reading some stuff about Daido Moriyama and looking at his photographs, so I fell for this picture right away. But I'd have loved it anyway, even if I'd only been reading Harry Potter. It has the kind of studied negligence that I love; where it looks like a mistake until you take a second look and appreciate how absorbing it is, and how startlingly well-seen it is. Thank you.

retake
by PennyStreet

Comment:
Just a wonderful, complicated, beautiful, charming, enigmatic photograph. The Russian doll of photographs. I love it. Thank you.

the fine
by Tiberius

Comment:
I like this. It's hard to explain, which is always a good sign. And it's interesting, which is ditto. Thank you.

Tool study..
by thrumyiis

Comment:
Totally absorbing. Your photograph is well judged to showcase these gorgeous hand tools. The combination of weathering (of the photograph) and precision (of your arrangement of the tools) is perfect. It demonstrates your photographic craft and your insight in equal measure. So I gladly give you 8 for each, making a total score of 16. Thank you.

Baseball Portrait
by tjbel05

Comment:
That is a beautiful portrait. Everything about it is perfect for the purpose, It could equally be from 1917 or 2017, and with a timeless, mystical pursuit like baseball as the spiritual inspiration, what more could we wish of a photograph? Not a thing. Thank you.

The circus
by Sisto

Comment:
Best circus pic I've seen, ever. Thank you.

11
by RKT

Comment:
Can this be Anil? How can it not be! 11?! I'll stop now, before I run out of punctuational hyperbole. As ever: thank you.

reeds
by tnun

Comment:
This is rather lovely. It hovers calmly between the realistic and the surrealistic; one paddle blade in either camp. I like it very much. Thank you.