Piercing
by taylorpage

Comment:
Are you being carped at over this not being sufficiently Ansel Adams-ish? But I suppose he took portraits as well? (I wouldn't know ... his more celebrated works are not to my taste, so I don't think I'd want to see anything of his in a genre that he was not famous for.)

Anyway, I don't actually care at all about the challenge topic, and I really do like your photograph. 10.

dont touch
by reezy

Comment:
Just surreal enough to be irrational. Just irrational enough to be surreal. I like the circular array of objects: the dark void; the brick wall; the shadow; the light (both compelling and dangerous, as befits a worthy attraction); and of course the mildly android-looking protagonist with the magical lipstick glasses. Everything means something here, there's not a wasted photon, and everything's connected to everything else. It's like a game of scissors-paper-stone in which each element of the photograph is 'stronger' than something and 'weaker' than something else. And happily, there is no solution; it's irrational.

The most interesting photograph in the challenge. I therefore give it a 10, plus the Order of the Thumb.

Mooving through the crowd.
by madnz

Comment:
There's a well regarded J-J Beguin photograph that's like this. Strangely, I think I prefer yours.

Field of corn stubble under threatening skies
by ThingFish

Comment:
I have no idea about the Ansel Adams part, but this is a very good photograph. 8.

"Only in silent shadows and in dreams"
by dahkota

Comment:
ahh... "Downward to darkness, on extended wings."
I know little of Divinity, but those are my own expectations; downward to darkness.

It's an architecturally pleasing photograph upon which I will bid a 7.

Life Passing
by muur88

Comment:
OK you win.

Life Passing
by muur88

Comment:

Originally posted by muur88: No really...it's squared. But glad you liked it.

Just found this response to a comment I made years ago; seems like another life entirely.
I appreciated the fact that the triptych was 'squared' in terms of overall image geometry. My thinking in saying cubed was that all of the three images in the trip are in fact trips in themselves (thanks to the tree and the lamp post). And thus 'cubed'. It made a cartoon strip effect that I loved back then, and have lost no affection for in the years since. In fact I admire it even more. Absence does indeed make the hard go Fonda, or whatever it is that they say.

Cloud Spotting
by muur88

Comment:
Browsing through your portfolio of street stuff ('specially the 10-22's) is like a visit to an exhilarating new exhibition, except no parking problems and I'm not wearing any shoes.

Is it the End Of the World as we know it?
by muur88

Comment:

Originally posted by david_c: ... does hold my interest briefly.

Limited attention span I guess. And bear in mind that this guy was apparently the most attentive viewer you had (given that nobody else commented at all) ... you must really suck.

I can see for Miles and Miles and Miles
by JuliBoc

Comment:
Aw, c'mon Julianne ... what is that critter? It's not a cat is it? If it was here & not Florida I'd say it was a possum.
Love the title ... The Who. So damn long ago.
Maybe you're right about the distance, but the main effect for me here is movement; clouds, branches.