Time Standing Still at the Sink
by pixelpig

Comment:
This is a beautifully realized little vignette of auto-interrogation: Is this my real life? Am I mad? Am I happy? Am I still me?

But of course it's only a tiny moment when time stood still. The clock didn't move, didn't even tick.

It's a lot more sophisticated (and a lot more chilling) than it looks, this photograph. I award it a 10. And my personal poisoned chalice ... the Order of the Thumb:

Highlands Lady
by MAK

Comment:
What a beautiful, natural portrait! Made with great judgement, restraint and skill, it will look just as good in 20 years, or in 100 years, as it looks now. It's an enduring photograph of a lovely woman. She's a 10 and so is your photograph ... 10. And also awarded the Order of the Thumb:


P.S. Before anyone is able to post one of those ghastly "pimped" caricatures that so often pass as portraits here, they should have to take a long look at this. Some of the models might learn a thing or two from it as well.

Winter Time
by gsal

Comment:
This is a brilliant photograph because the very unusual point-of-view and composition puts the focal point of the image outside the frame. We don't see it of course, but it is most definitely part of the photograph. I think that is a rare and fabulous achievement, and well worth the full 10. And the Order of the Thumb for you too:

shone
by krnodil

Comment:
This has an amazingly mesmeric effect. Of course it feels like underwater, but I don't think it can be. The impression is that everything is swaying in and out of clear perception in some kind of sinuous dance ordained by the light shining from above. It feels like I'm in a place where I'm being bewitched by siren song into staying when I know I should leave. Something like being on the edge of death, and knowing it, and not really minding too much.

It's a photograph of rare reach, here or indeed anywhere, and I love it. 10. And the Order of the Thumb.

Sunflower Days
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
I don't care for still life photographs, but if you are going to keep doing this I'll have to reconsider my position. It's astoundingly lovely. I can't believe that I have spent at least 5 minutes just slowly savoring all the lovingly-rendered details here, but I have. Anyway, please don't tell anyone I said all this, because I just hate liking something so damn tasteful. 9.

Lizard
by aznym

Comment:
Best critter photograph I've seen for ages. There is so much more to insects and small reptiles than preposterously hyperbolic macros. As you demonstrate so well here. 8.

The Washing Line
by inshaala

Comment:
Laundry is the universal Proof of Life. I love laundry photographs. 7.

Man with horn rimmed glasses
by thorgils

Comment:
This is so wonderfully cool. I hate using that word, but in this case it's exactly the right word because the photograph reminds me of the 'counter-art' art of the late 1960's, and it was very cool. It may have been the early 1970's ΓΆ€“ I know I was there, but I don't remember it too clearly. Anyway, the deadpan ordinariness of this picture is ... extraordinary! Which is the point of course. 8.

PA
by JustinM

Comment:
Some great photographer (can't recall who) said it's all a matter of where you stand. You must have read his (or her) book. This is a terrific photograph.

She rides the wind
by rinac

Comment:
I'm a sucker for these long exposure beach shots ... waves, gulls and somebody running, all blurred into an overly-sweet charm. It's like visual Abba music, and I can't help singing along every time. This is an especially good one.