glance
by jmritz

Comment:
I buy this stuff every time. Never tire of the challenge to the imagination. Thank you.

Blessings
by wildiris

Comment:
I really don't like bug macros, which makes this doubly impressive for me because it's quite fabulous. Congratulations on making something beautiful and interesting out of what is normally a tedious genre. Way better and more interesting than the usual buggers. Thank you.

Another Gray Morning
by insteps

Comment:
Terrific, dynamic photograph. I think verisimilitude is the right word. Thank you.

Stumps
by Lawton

Comment:
Amazing stumps = interesting photograph. Thank you.

00
by herfotoman

Comment:
Excellent guided tour of the white rhino, Herman. There's a lot of them about just now, though I probably shouldn't be saying that? Your photos are interesting especially due to being not all the same processing treatment, which was a good idea for shifting the attention around various aspects and parts of the animals, and their various attendants too. The tick shot is a great example! But my favourite is the egret boy scout troop. Very closely followed by 03. This essay kept my attention, and I see these animals in the wild almost every day, so I reckon it is going to be totally enthralling for our DPC friends who aren't so lucky as us! Nice work, and thank you.

Found in a Wrecking Yard #19
by jomari

Comment:
Very cool. I like Ballarat. Never saw this character there before, so thank you.

Swazi Lo-Fi
by ubique

Comment:

Originally posted by jin_tonic: ... the sigh between the linesâ€Â¦

How very beautiful. I wish I'd thought of it. Thank you.

The Pathways
by rooum

Comment:
Your photography is sublime; same as it ever was. These images are perfectly positioned between two journeys: the steps that have been taken in another time (almost in another place), and the steps that are promised. It somehow suggests that walking these paths involves some responsibility to their past.

The only criticism I have is that there are too many images, with some that are nearly indistinguishable one from another. But that aside (and it may just be my own uncertain attention span that's the problem), the photographs are beautiful. I absolutely love the way that you have held onto certain details, and let others drift a little. It feels like a very Celtic view of things, where there's no sure ground between corporeal and ethereal. The spiritual dimension is always there, but muted just enough to remain plausible. Thank you.

Message edited by author 2014-10-31 12:14:09.

Men-II.1
by mariuca

Comment:
I've had a quick look and I like it. How could I not? There are a couple of genuinely world-class photographs in there (and none at all that are anything less than excellent), but as ever your real impact is in the accumulation of observational wit and whimsy, on a bed of flat-out artistic accomplishment. But I'm very busy just now ... I'll be back in a day or 2 to leave you a proper comment. Thanks for submitting your invariably interesting stuff!

#7 and #9 are the two world-class photographs I was referring to, although now that I've looked longer I might be damning the remainder with faint praise. They're all so witty and engaging. You seem to be incapable of doing anything dull. If you cook as consistently well as you do this stuff, you'd be the perfect flatmate. Thank you!

Message edited by author 2014-11-03 14:32:19.

Le Flaneur - Sneak Brim
by insteps

Comment:
I've had a quick look and I like it. It's got that HF combination of gentle wit and sharp (in the figurative sense) photography. But I'm very busy just now ... I'll be back in a day or 2 to leave you a proper comment. Thanks for keeping this terrific exercise alive for us, and for submitting interesting stuff!

.... OK, back now following another inconspicuous stroll through your streets, looking over your shoulder.

This work is really fascinating Henry. Yes it's great fun on the superficial level, but there's way more than some street fun on offer here. The viewer must read the Baudelaire quote, and your own introduction, before setting out. Both are an indispensable guide to the journey.

The most captivating thing for me is the way that your shadow somehow inhabits the people on which it is placed. Maybe it's the recurring Tilley that gives your projected self a spectral quality. Maybe it's the fact that CP Baudelaire primed me for that illusion. Whatever, it's irresistible. I tried looking start to finish, and then finish to start, and it works either way ... you have projected yourself not onto but into your fellow travellers. The photography's very good, the craftsmanship's got your usual effortless touch, but the photography never gets in the way of the essay of Le Flaneur.

It's photography elevated into language; pictures to words; symbols to thoughts. You've made a sort of Rosetta stone for photographers. Thank you.

Message edited by author 2014-11-01 04:25:05.