Diminished Capacity
by RKT

Comment:


... this fading that's happening ever so slowly, and there isn't much you can do to stop it.

Well there is in a way, and you're already doing it: photographs preserve and cherish, and are the only way we mortals can save time in a bottle. Photographs fix his footprints through your life, and yours through his. I wish I had taken more such photographs.

Good Intentions
by ubique

Comment:

Originally posted by LevT: some bedroom windows are better than others... interesting transition form transversal to longitudinal stripes, never saw it in zebras so clearly. In liquid crystals theory such objects are called "disclinations"

Always very happy to get a physics lesson from the master, especially for no charge :)

Spaces.
by RKT

Comment:
I can come back to this. And I will. Coming back is the best part, when there's substance to be weighed.

ETA: Something nearly divine.

Message edited by author 2015-03-24 15:21:39.

Laid to Rest
by insteps

Comment:
I voted but never got any comments done. This was my equal favourite. I loved the implied ceremonial of it. A gently sad but beautiful image and in spite of the careful laying out, I was pretty well convinced that it was as found. Thank you.

MB1A2710
by chalice

Comment:
It's a Day in the Life, starting after midnight and ending with a suggestion of a day's work done. In between, you have engaged the starter, released the handbrake, fuelled up, and tooled around the neighbourhood ticking a few boxes and stealing a few horses. It works; it's interesting, entertaining and well worth more than the one run through, too. Loved the odd points-of-view, especially the fridge one (this is the first time I have ever smiled at the fridge POV kind of photograph).

The individual photographs are also very interesting as stand alone images. Nice work all round Jeff.

When viewing the essay on your linked website/blog, I also quickly scrolled top-to-bottom and back a few times, and there's a day there in the advancing & receding light and the changing mood. An implied diurnal device! I reckon that was your intention at least as a subconscious impulse, and it works beautifully!

Thank you.

three stories
by jmritz

Comment:
You do more with less than any photographer I have ever known. Your stuff always seems like the sketches of a great artist. You'll scoff at the comparison ΓΆ€“ probably laugh out loud ΓΆ€“ but your photographs remind me of Picasso's single line drawings (contour drawings?), where everything is about capturing the essence of a thing with the maximum economy, and fuck the details, which are irrelevant or even worse obscuring. If that comparison's too rich for you, then how about gestural drawings? Would you buy that? Your photographs are gestural drawings. Can't deny me that one, John.

We naturally deplore the relative scarcity of your signature titles in this essay. I know you had no choice in this context, but your titles are actually my favourite pleasure at DPC. Not kidding.

Thank you.

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by daisydavid

Comment:
I hope this essay does not mean what it feels like.

If it does, I don't think I can make a coherent statement about it. So I will have to assume it does not.

But I can't now. If you hadn't pierced it through its autumn with that picture of yourself, looking like a distinguished actor's bio picture in a Shakespearean programme, I'd paradoxically have been able to convince myself that you were only playing. If that picture had been treated like all the rest, I'd have been OK. But it wasn't; it was a fixed point, a pivot, and everything else was receding from it. Receding backwards, receding forwards.

Crikey. I'm done, for now. And it's that bloody Any Winehouse's fault as much as yours.

Can't even manage my customary thank you.

r
by daisydavid

Comment:
G'day.

1.children
by mariuca

Comment:

Originally posted by posthumous: one more thing, capturing in-between moments, moments without "moment", you show a respect and empathy missing from a typical National Geographic photo essay of a foreign locale. You are, in fact, undermining their foreign-ness to accentuate their human-ness.

I was going to post a luke-warm review of this essay until I read the quoted comment from Don. It made me look again, and reconsider my position by opening my eyes to what I'd missed or under-estimated. He's right about your reverence for the subjects, such that they aren't subjects at all but extensions of yourself. The idea of moments without "moment" is a perfect characterisation of this essay. You have honored these children by inviting them across to your side of the lens, and yourself to theirs. Hence the anti-NatGeo tribute. It's indeed the work of a humanist first and photographer only second. Thank you.

Cochin 0001
by salmiakki

Comment:
Drat! I knew there was a drawback to my taking my commenting on these essays one day at a time; it means that I have to agree with the bloke who agreed with Don. Third banana I am. Nevertheless, my comments, or really it's my purloining of their comments, are no less sincere for that. Hear, hear! and thank you.