step down with outside light
by mitalapo

Comment:
Lovely. Perfect weights and tones. Thank you.

being there
by mrbig65

Comment:
Yes. Simple & graphic. Beautifully balanced. It feels just right, doesn't it? Doesn't push, doesn't pull. Thank you.

ASL for?
by cutout

Comment:
You're always missed Jan, because when you take a break there is a hole here that nobody but you seems able to fill. So keep it filled, please? Anyway, how can you say it's most unsuccessful? It's merely finished in the last few places in a popular vote, and here that's a distinction that frequently means your work is either really bad or really good. Your stuff is really good much more often than it is really bad. And it's never really mediocre. If it was, your every entry would be celebrated. And you wouldn't want that. If that happened I'd have to tell you to take a short break.

offload
by NiallOTuama

Comment:
I love distractions. Distraction is the back door to curiosity, and curiosity is the front door to art. Keep doing this! Thank you.

Event
by RKT

Comment:
Crikey! This was my favourite before I got so bored with looking at clunky literalism that I went on to something far more stimulating (a cup of tea) and never came back. I assumed you'd win anyway without my help, because I assumed this challenge was about imagination, not the lack of it. Silly me, now I need more tea.

secure
by PennyStreet

Comment:
My favourite. It's everything a photograph should be.

First among its qualities is the fact that it is a photograph ΓΆ€“ that it is an object in its own right, rather than just a picture of something. That's hard to do in this digital age because unless you print it, it's not really a physical thing at all. But this photograph manages to breach that limitation.

I'm being obtuse, probably. I mean that most pictures of girls are just that; an image of the girl. It's a way that a viewer remote in space and time can experience the girl. Usually in the DPC context, however, the photographer is primarily showing off their technique. So their real motivation is that the viewer can experience the photographer. "Stunning picture; you're amazing!" Like that.

But in your picture, you aren't a presence at all, which just goes to show what a very good photographer you must be.

So, your photograph isn't so that we can experience you. But I go a step further: your photograph isn't so that we can experience the girl, either. Your photograph is so that we can experience The Photograph. That's an automatic 10, plus I press an Order of the Thumb upon you. Thank you.

Uneasy Travellers
by rooum

Comment:
Nice. Getting nicer with every look. Still going. Nicer. Absorbing, interesting. Sort of cinematic, it's like a film strip rather than just one frame. Very nice. Thank you.

Branches
by Elaine

Comment:
Yeah. Thank you.

bye boat
by jmritz

Comment:
I'll have this one. Thank you.

- and i cry if i want to
by mrbig65

Comment:
Yeah, this works. I tried to decide if it would still work without the title, but that's futile because it has the title; that's part of what it means, what it is. It's like trying to decide if the Beatles' album Revolver was still good without the title. Probably. Probably not. It's academic because the title is part of it, QED. This is about loneliness. 9. Thank you.