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oh dear
oh dear
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05/31/2015 11:54:07 PM
A masterpiece, you certainly tap into that collective artistic consciousness reserved only for the few. Each photo is a gem in its' own right but part of the greater whole. I can't say enough how epic this collection is, thank you John.
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05/14/2015 12:38:39 PM
Mariuca's problem is true in a sense. Each mage is so strong, it wants to take over the whole story. That is probably why Paul could easily assign his insightful interpretations to each one individually.
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05/11/2015 05:05:21 PM
John, all the people who left a comment are your fans. I wonder what other people think of your stuff or our appreciative comments. I mean, I wish they'll try to understand the ineffable quality of your work.

This serie does not work for me as wonderfully as each individual image does individually. I have my favorites where I stopped to catch my breath (empty year, if I could tell you…, the passion, I am brush strokes…) but the whole does not lead me anywhere. Must be the processing or my lack oƒ ignoring it. Take "the ache inside" for instance - it makes one shudder and it's not only from the knee pain! But in context, the noise does not belong to the collection.
Sometimes I think that you have an idea and a title prior to taking a photograph and it's only because you have all deeply ingrained in your mind.

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05/06/2015 03:05:31 PM
John, from your photography to your writing, you are an artist of economy. A peddler of less is more. This gives the curious observer room for interpretation and discovery. Your individual images give us plenty to chew on and in essay format it’s pure visual gluttony.

Thanks for your contributions to this side challenge.
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05/05/2015 10:58:44 AM
You have different kinds of noise. Someone who is too taken aback by blur might not notice this, and just see blur, but I see different qualities of blur and noise in different photos and groups of photos.

These photos have some kind of voodoo. There is some sort of dark magic to these. It's beautiful and scary.
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05/05/2015 02:49:48 AM
I missed the "Dear Diary" bit the first time I looked through. Just to show how successful the images are, I ended up thinking: snippets of a life. So there you are, you nailed it.

My favourite is the first image, for it's bold composition.

It is so true, one has a broad variety of emotions per day - related and unrelated, and these images reflect it so well.

Thanks.
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05/04/2015 03:33:14 PM
There have been times when I have read something that Paul ubique (or Don posthumous) has (have) written and my first instinct is to comment by agreeing with his (their) brilliant comment instead of thinking of an original comment of my own. I have always resisted that impulse. But, to heck with that. Everything Paul said. 1+ to Paul's comment. 100+++ to Paul's comment.

John, you are an amazing artist. DPC is so lucky to have you.

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05/03/2015 06:56:57 AM
John, I love your stuff better than anyone's at DPC. Artist with camera, camera as charcoal. You and Jan Blessing stand alone (well, together alone) in that rare genre.

And the titles; your titles are the most breathtakingly economical poetry, and lose nothing in the enforced brevity. I'd renew my membership just for your titles.

So, here my immediate thought, in each case:

My heart plunges, and rises. A photograph with its own tremolo arm.

Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear?

I will be there. You just wait; I will be.

A soul falls, swoops, screaming and sparking.

Where now are the empty footsteps, the invisible shadows? What, am I alone?

Good Grief! What a picture, what a composition, what a sublime orchestration of tones and shapes and a single breath. Not a pixel too much or too few. Bloody miraculous.

Small smile at Winogrand. Big smile back, I imagine.

Thank God you made a noise.

Dorothea Lange's picture, from a different point-of-view.

Yes. No. Maybe. You can't say no, even crucified and all.

O say can you see?

Hey Joe.

Hey Joe ... That's probably it, the reason we connect; we two are of an age, teenagers in the 60s. Not much stuck to us after that.

Thank you.

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