Life for me ain't been no crystal stair... - Langston Hughes
by pawdrix

Comment:
Hell. These are the stairs down to Hell. I knew they'd be crystal. And it doesn't look too hot down there, either. Looks pretty inviting, actually. OK, I'm convinced ... pass me those Bad to the Bone pills.

The Forlorn Hope
by pawdrix

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Wow! Four wide receivers and two running backs; could be anything. Sweep left, probably. The QB needs to put his helmet on and get rid of that spiky kids' haircut before John Madden sees it.

Morning Canter (3 of 31)
by Ecce_Signum

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Once again, as with your recent seascape, it's the gentle folding of the horizon at the edges that makes something magic happen for me. It's like the scene is existing only in some kind of silken time-and-space capsule; the horse and rider are visible only from inside the capsule.

More of what LB can do to bend perception and imagination, rather than just pixels.

Wink
by Germaine

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All these So-Cal Noir street surveillance shots of yours are turning into one of the real features of this thread. They are like cheap crime novels from the 1950's, which were so much more full of the juices of life than the oh-so-politically-correct-and-sensitive-and-inclusive-and-non-judgmental novels of more recent times. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh with the "cheap" epithet, but I meant it as a compliment. I think I'll elevate you to Elmore Leonard status, so there's no doubt about how admirable I think they are.

Portico Row
by banmorn

Comment:
I'm with the Bear. In particular for the very perceptive reason he cites.

Another very instructive example of how the Lensbaby changes perception; opens a few little-used side doors in the photographer's and the viewers' noggins..

ipod
by ErinM

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I hate following Art. He says all the good stuff and I'm just left with, "Nice shot! Cooooool!"

Anyway, nice shot. Coooool.

Needle Baby
by Art Roflmao

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You're a Seattle guy! I never knew that. I was a Seahawks fan back in Steve Largent's days. Before your time, of course. No 80. Oh, he was smart. Not too fast, but very smart. And soft hands ... soft like ... something really, really soft.

Needle looks fine, screwing around like this.

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by salmiakki

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Oh but it's not more or less the same at all! The mood is completely different.

The other one's sensual. And someone's with the guy in the other one, waiting smiling on the sand for him to turn and wade back ashore.

This one is despairing; bereft. Nobody is waiting. And he might not be wading back ashore, either.

They're both good, but if I could see only one I'd rather it be this one.

Pointed Beauty
by trevytrev

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I don't love barbed wire at all, but I was a farm boy so I got to push great rolls of it around, and also to unwind it by hand when I'd forgotten my gloves. And later to climb over it when I was in too much of a hurry to walk down to the gate (Tip: climbing over it ALWAYS takes longer than walking to the gate).

I have since tried to photograph the stuff a few times though, and I never got a result as good as this. Maybe the wire senses my residual loathing?

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by krnodil

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You can't be too weird for me, no matter how you try.
My first reaction was to see it as an endoscope image (although I'm sure you had something a little more romantic in mind).
I haven't had a second reaction yet; I'm still a little grossed out from my first one.

See? You've got to get a whole lot weirder, I'm afraid.