The Runner
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
This is very good ... something just awfully pleasing about it. I smiled and I'd bet everyone else does too. I could ramble on about the LB effect obscuring the way ahead on life's uncertain journey, but this is no place for that stuff; it's just a very nice picture of a cool kid scooting along the beach and an implied dad watching out for him. How'd you like being implied, KP?

sticks
by cgino

Comment:
Drive by shooter? You don't seem to miss either. Remind me not to piss you off.

Chili
by pawdrix

Comment:
That Chili is one hot cat!

Pigeon graffiti
by Melethia

Comment:
Coo(l)

Black Ice 2 — Divsion of Oversight & Non-Compliance
by Bear_Music

Comment:
No fair, Art, bringing all that hi-tech forensic apparatus into play. The legendary LLC, eh? The last of the notorious Crazed Crustacean Gang, since Panhandle Pete the Prawn bit the big one. Or a big one bit Pete.

Blue Oleander
by JuliBoc

Comment:
Isn't oleander deadly poisonous? Doesn't look it, in your hands. You're right about the background ... it's a very attractive counterpoint to the flowers.

Message edited by author 2009-01-18 06:28:51.

Crosswalk
by Germaine

Comment:
Forget the school miscreants ... the guy in the back is stealing a wheelbarrow!

tracks
by ErinM

Comment:
f/4.0 huh? I have a feeling that that is really the magic aperture for the LB ... just enough of everything, not too much of anything, if you know what I mean. Alas, I don't even know where my discs are at the moment: I'm a wide-open kinda guy I guess.

What else is really impressive here is how much feeling of the light that you have squeezed out of a scene with such a limited tonal range. You're pretty good at this photo stuff.

street drag quin
by ytshuva

Comment:
I don't know what a drag 'quin' is, but I get the picture. In spite of the prosaic background (which you have tried your best to suppress), this is a spectacularly good portrait. The absurd costume is wonderful of course, but the expression of rapture is what makes it such a worthy photograph. All the hurts and humiliations this person's lifestyle choice routinely attract fade away (like your background) when he feels like this. It's my choice as Best in Challenge because it's real, and because it provokes some actual thought about "Life" and how it's lived out on the fringes. 10. And it's also awarded the wildly erratic Order of the Thumb:

The only human beeing who lived in harmony
by Mephisto

Comment:
I liked it more at first glance than I do on reflection; I have the feeling that it looks more consequential than it actually is. I wondered if you were saying that the central, strangely hunched figure finds harmony only in solitude? That works I guess, versus the couple behind, but then what of the other two solo persons further back? If the central figure is the only human beeing (sic) living in harmony, then what are they living in? I couldn't work out what it meant, and concluded that it doesn't mean anything at all. Still in my top five, though ... at least it stimulated a train of thought, even if it took me nowhere.