Fly
by posthumous

Comment:
See the in-challenge comments. Two rejoice in your Fly, while two can think of nothing to say but to tut-tut the lack of sharpness (helpfully pointing it out in case you were perhaps unaware of it).

Which vision is the most wonderful? The rejoicing vision, or the denouncing vision? With which vision would you wish to be blessed? With which cursed?

Moving on, what about Timothy's WS Merwin poem? It could also be said to be slightly out-of-focus in relation to your picture, and yet that unexpected soft shift in point of view is also a kind of rejoicing, isn't it? It was for me, thanks, T.

And what of streetpigeon's "Cheshire smile'? That's rejoice-able rejoicing! Perfect.

Thank you.

the company you keep
by mariuca

Comment:
Was my No 1 pick & highest vote by 2 points but I failed to comment, sorry. In spite of the wonderfully bizarro foreground couple, it's the faces in the train that thrill me the most. And the tones. And the light. Composition. Oh, everything really. Thank you.

this time
by jmritz

Comment:
Always. Every time. Thank you.

crazy times
by cutout

Comment:
You know how I feel about this result. Jan Rocks, that's how.

swing
by bvy

Comment:
If I had to reduce my favourites, of which I already have but a meagre few, to just one ... this would be the one. Thank you.

marchers
by 2mccs

Comment:
It's now more than two years since I first looked at this picture. I still think of it often. I actually do hear the thin and distorted marching music, broadcast through a cheap public address system, displaced slightly in time from what I'm seeing. As if the visuals and the audio have slipped slightly out of synch.

It's one of the tiny treasure trove of pictures on DPC that I most revere because it is so effortlessly evocative. It is unmistakably a picture from my own history, depicting an event I never attended at a place I have never been. And yet it is me. It is my history, my memory, my picture.

It's not a picture of a thing. It is what I said in the section of my original comment entitled "Documentary v Recollection". That is, it is an echo of a thing. And it's the echo that has the indelible meaning, and not the thing.

Everything that makes photographs magical is in this one. So rare, so perfect, so beautiful. Marla, thank you.

Message edited by author 2017-08-21 03:43:06.

blast
by 2mccs

Comment:
This is quite beautiful. I don't know why, or more accurately I couldn't say exactly why. Maybe that's why it's beautiful. I could look at this one the longest, and the most often. So 10. Thank you.

art lover
by tvsometime

Comment:
It feels cinematic to me. New wave cinema, to be specific. I know what happens next. No, I don't, but I do know it happens. How could it not? Thank you.

d'acqua di Roma
by tate

Comment:
Wonderful. All of the magic of a photograph is here. Thank you.

goth ornis
by Abra

Comment:
Impossible to dismiss this. Sacred ibis? It's a beautiful, startling picture in which the bird is redefined. Thank you.