Ouroboros
by rooum

Comment:
Oh, Clive. A ribbon! How can I remain true to you now, you shameless tart?

I hope you will tolerate my saying that it is to my recollection your least interesting photograph (which is not to say it's uninteresting, because it's not ... but its lesser-celebrated stablemates in your portfolio set a fiercely high standard interest-wise). I blame the challenge topic, which near enough forced the entrants into playing the same hackneyed old 'multiple appearance' game. You at least played it with some rare sense of lightness of touch, and my congrats for that. But please don't make a habit of this ribbon stuff, mate.

dog's frozen water bowl ice disc....melting.
by LoVi

Comment:
The most interesting photograph in the challenge.
Also the most beautiful.
Most imaginative.
Most original.
Most durable.
Least boring.
You win all the prizes (well, except for the blue ribbon, naturally). Thank you.

eleven
by rooum

Comment:
The quiet crackle of Clive in contemplative mood. Or maybe that was just the power lines? Whatever it was, it crackles if you listen with care. Thank you.

bean sith
by daisydavid

Comment:
I like this. Beautiful skin tones. Didn't know the banshee by bean sith before now, so that's a bonus too. Thanks all round!

this-and-that.2854
by mariuca

Comment:
It's a real photograph! That's what a photograph is for: to isolate a moment in a way that amplifies and even transcends visual observation. This photograph is about the photograph itself ... the photograph is the hero here, not the subject, and not the photography.

I wish there were a way I could get this onto the front page at DPC for a week. Or a month. So that people could see the difference between a photograph and photography. So that arguments about what's art and what isn't could be settled instantly, in a way that must be clear to even the most reluctant adventurer.

Just a wonderful, witty, original, durable, photograph. Thank you!

the arrival
by cutout

Comment:
This is awesome negative space play. I know, it's supposed to be the silly damn Droste effect, but negative space is much more interesting, and this is a very good positive - negative conundrum. Thank you.

serpents
by jmritz

Comment:
I loved that game as a kid. Do kids still play it? I suppose now there'd be an 'enabler' to hold the ladders for the player (the participant?), and a 'carer' for when you slid down a serpent onto your ass. Do kids still have asses? Are kids still kids? Oh, bugger, it's a Droste effect comment. I loved that game as a kid, etc.

I'm waiting for my man
by BrennanOB

Comment:
You know when I said that popular photographs are nearly always boring? This one is the reason why the 'nearly' modifier is necessary. Not boring. Far from boring. Anti-boring. It's Arbus meets Atget. Thank you.

homage a trois
by tnun

Comment:
You probably mean this as a wry bit of theatre, which it is (and it is even if you don't mean it, too). But I think it's a very sexual image. Not sexy. Sexual. Even discounting the title's nearly irresistible mental skip to ménage, it's whispering about the implied intimacy of the three, rather than the conventional two. But, my disgraceful and fortunately impractical fantasies aside, it's a lovely thing, this photograph. Shapes, tones, textures, shadows, light: there's a lot of delight packed into this simple picture. Your delight, and the viewer's.
À bientôt, j'espère

Gelotophobia
by jagar

Comment:
Laugh? I thought I would die!