I Can Block the Sun with my Hand
by xianart

Comment:
I rather like this: that hand, of course, but more perhaps the sheer graininess of it. There are sophisticated parallels of lines - the boarding, the boy's fingers, the shadow fingers. There's something more than a simple snapshot - or perhaps I mean that there's something about certain snapshots that sometimes works on more levels - that escapes the derogatory meaning of 'snapshot'. Lovely work - and I hope I'm not the only one to notice.

The Trees
by basssman7

Comment:
I'm sorry, but I really dislike this - as much because there's an impression that you might have had a really interesting and involving shot before the over-processing, and because of that over-processing itself.

She Moves
by TommyMoe21

Comment:
I would maybe have considered a black and white for this - it would emphasise the movement rather than the colour, which - especially those circular patterns on her dress - really draw the eye strongly, and given their distortion, surely detract from the otherwise pleasing impact of that movement.

Sugar & Spice & All Things Nice...
by btuck

Comment:
Good toning. The crop feels a touch close on the side of frame she's looking toward, maybe; perhaps that's just that you've placed her face too far off the strong line.

Maria
by steinar

Comment:
Fun portrait - though the light seems a touch harsh - for the model too, whi seems to be squinting a little. Perhaps a small reflector (needn't be any more complicated than a piece of white paper) to fill the shadows on the right side of her? Decent work.

Please come back!
by TonyT

Comment:
Clever - and nicely done to boot.

Transient
by messerschmitt

Comment:
Beautiful photo; I love the repeated branching - both of the tree and of the kerb-stones. The sense that the shadow is of a person, only refuted by the inclusion of the very edge of the tree makes that parallel just enough of a compositional surprise. Marvellous.

On Ed's advice
by jjbeguin

Comment:
How does one write that noise one makes when half laughing and half dismissing one's influence. When I have more time I must decide whether I'm right or not ;-)

Perhaps a Buick?
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Reminiscent of Steiglitz, I feel; although more interesting.

Mostly bits
by jjbeguin

Comment:
This kind of vague bottom left to top right (in this case, against the movement of time in your image) composition is almost a signature of yours, to my mind - as is the crafty balance of the human (in either the simple sense of depiction, or more complicatedly as a geometric element) with the graphic. The tiling leads to an expectation of pure form - an expectation of rigid composition, but by the time the eye gets to the decayed wall behind your 'subject', all expectations are out of the window, and one knows one is in the presence of a very special personal vision.

It seems to be a summer disease at dpc, that the interesting photographs get even less acknowledgement than usual, and that what comments such stuff as this does command have a feeling of thoughtless dismissal. Be assured that some of us, at least, are still looking, and still wondering, and still learning.