Together we LIVE, Alone we die.
by Dirt_Diver

Comment:
Horrible - in a fascinating way, that is. The implication of your title is certainly carried out in the image - the de-saturated parts of the arms seeming ly having the pallor of death and decay, especially enhanced by the flesh tones being so unaffected. I don't like the metaphysical implications at all however - that implication that only in groups can we have any meaning is surely anathema: what possibility for individual genius in that world? If everything is concensus then everything is mediocre.

Six Strong Soldiers
by Judi

Comment:
Is this what HDR stuff does? I don't know; seems like the foreground comes from a different picture than the sky, certainly a differently illuminated one. Not sure I like the effect.

Foil from Hell
by dinwald

Comment:
Nicely done, but ... kind of leaves me cold I suppose. A more subtle lighting of the foil might have helped, perhaps.

IT MUST BE HELL
by kinkypixel

Comment:
For me, overdone on the wacky processing; nevertheless a cool image. Perhaps in terms of the challenge one might have wanted more emphasis on the flames as well as the fighters of them: compositionally this is all about the firemen.

Enter the Woodsman
by posthumous

Comment:
Something of a hatchet job, no doubt; and of course, one should never trust snow.

Tarmac
by jaysonmc

Comment:
Love this - obviously the top left plane is the icing on the cake, but it is also the dissociation of the figures in their seats. Fine work.

now and into the future
by grigrigirl

Comment:
Nice crop - 'fine art' indeed! Two dynamics strike my eye - the first and most obvious is the window reflection, which, despite your title, brings to my mind a sense of the impossibility of the permanent - or at the very least a presentiment of that impossibility: the two figures, evidently still bound in the affection, but broken up by the strange geometry of the architecture. A sense of hope there, but the very sense of hope requires an admission that one cannot be certain of any future whatsoever.

Secondly, there are the two almost ghostly, almost angelic figures further up the street: in the pose you have caught strongly suggesting a more aged couple - yet still with contact, still with affection as it seems. In some senses presenting an ideal of what might possibly lie ahead, a sense of all we could reasonably hope for; two directions, the possibility of fracture, of the interference of the hard geometry of the world, and yet also the evident possibility that those might be overcome.

To top that off with your cheeky suggestion of some greater relevance to it all in that cropping of that sign; the more I look the more I think its simply a masterpiece. Thankyou.

Du Vin au Café
by xianart

Comment:
Very strong image; I like that you've caught a sense of resilient loneliness here; a sense of holding out against the tides of trash and what I guess she'd consider the 'uncouth'. Strong photograph.

Fancy fire escape
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
I like your eye for a composition, and your sense of colour too. The organic shapes of the creeping plant - as well as the disorder of the boxes in the window add a sense of the random to the more obviously regular subject and presentation. Fine work.

Ghost in Flight
by hihosilver

Comment:
Very cool photo; you've given us a bare minimum of information really, which is ideal, and have resisted the temptation to make the left half of frame completely black, which shows strong compositional sense. Possibly my winner in this challenge.