Assignation
by Germaine

Comment:
Oh, clever! As in witty. Makes so much lovely room for the viewer to supply the backstory.

Chained Cellophane
by pawdrix

Comment:
This is a keeper, Steve. It has that unrehearsed, never-to-be-repeated wit that is in my view is the very best thing about street photographs. It's the fact that you really can't set this up that makes it so durable. Well, theoretically you might be able to stage it, but it would not, could not, look like this.

In spite of my support of your work over the past few years, I am only a casual admirer of street photography. The reason is that while the best of street photography is an imperishable pleasure, quite a lot of it is derivative. Like a knock-knock joke; you can only stand a certain amount of them until you start to wince in embarrassment for the teller before you've even heard the punch line. But in spite of that, I still keep coming back to the street stuff because when you get a good one, it makes up for all the imitative dross. You produce more than your fair share of 'good ones', and this photograph is comfortable in the company of the best work of any street photographers, anywhere.

As for the Lensbaby dimension, it really does enhance the already-heart-stopping photograph. Not just for the isolating effect of the selective focus, which directs our attention to the tethered torso nicely. But also because of the sense of recoil that it gives to the facial expression of the man with the coffee. Through that, we share his moment of astonishment all the more convincingly.

This has never happened before (and I never thought it would), but I have no choice ... I must award you a second Order of the Thumb:

Magnificent
by Retroesque

Comment:
So you and this Roflmao guy had a Melbourne GTG, and I wasn't invited? Fine!

by aznym

Comment:
The kid driving looks at you, and the kid not driving watches the road. It's nearly a good plan.

LB 4
by Charlene

Comment:
I don't like it like I like this one, nor like I like this one. But that's OK, right? We don't have to like every shot we each do, do we? You can go ahead & pick on one of mine, if you want. Any one you like. Or don't like, if you know what I mean.

(I know you said you're struggling with this LB thing, but I wouldn't risk kidding you this way if I didn't think that you're not. Struggling, I mean.)

Out there
by trevytrev

Comment:
It is. Out there. It's too damn hard to comment sensibly on this. Luckily for me, Nonsense is my middle name!

It's not much of a photograph by many standards, except that it's the only one like it that exists anyplace in the world. That alone gives it a certain strange value. And it has no apparent horizon ... yet it seems to go from right way up to inverted, without a seam. That's an illusion, I know; it's all right way up, but the bottom half still looks like a defective reflection. I wouldn't hang it on my wall Trev, but nor would I trade it for a dozen water splashes and wine glasses. Not for a hundred, in fact.

X
by Zigomar

Comment:
I've watched too many movies, I see nothing but KGB.

Don't walk
by Zigomar

Comment:
You saved the very best two for last. This one, and this one.

This one is dominated by the sign, of course ("No Hopping"?), but the columns make a metropolitan forest of sorts, and the people separate left and right to pass the thing in the middle of the walkway. And yet, we have this fellow at the bottom; the only one not yet committed to a left or right course. He has a huge bag ... maybe this is why he can't decide yet? Go left, and risk hitting the bag on the thing? Or right, and hit the bag on the column. Or maybe change hands and then go left, no right, no ... oh, it's tricky, this is. See his posture. Everyone else has made their decision early, and now they are resigned to their chosen side. Their bodies are closed. Accepting of their fate. But the man with the huge bag is still open. His body language suggests that he knows he still has a decision to make, and he's alert, receptive to clues. I think he's even slowing a bit, just to gain the maximum time before he plays his card.

Possibly I have read a little too much into it? Nah!

XX
by Zigomar

Comment:
Az is right; its little legs really are moving. I think it's going to scuttle right out of shot.

Halyava
by Zigomar

Comment:
I can. It says "Britney Spears concert is cancelled." Man, that was a lucky break!