A Window Pauses to Reflect

has to be a frame from a comic book and i bet the Japanese artist may have been thinking R Crumb when he worked it... This is nice, and apocalyptic, and i love the airplane... I love the tittle just as much.

This is very good. It's so good a lot of people would say it can't be topped and why shoot more? Of course you won't stop. Thankfully.

Wow! :)

Thanks for the comments on this picture. It's one that appeals to me very much. I think if there were a fire and I could only save one image from this month's posting, it would be a toss-up between this one and the guy on train platform. It's a funny thing, Carlos, I didn't notice the plane until I posted it but it must have figured into the picture when I took this shot ten months ago. The dirty window, the neighborhood houses, the overburdened electrical pole, the darkened sky, the plane - it's that transient convergence of odd elements in a picture that fascinates me the most..

Carlos - R. Crumb, now there was an interesting guy who was both emblematic of the hippie culture and a product of his time. Somehow he and The Grateful Dead will always be entangled in my brain, especially when I hear "Truckin'". That song brings the whole circus back to life. I have a great documentary on R. Crumb and his very odd family. I'll send it to you if you haven't seen it and I can figure out how to do it.

Chuck - Thanks. A little to effusive with the praise but I appreciate it, especially coming from a photographer of your caliber. As for stopping - hahahaha.

Tatjana - More pictures!

Zwigoff's Crumb is one great piece of work i keep revisiting over the years --- like all great art, it never gets old!

You probably remember an extraordinary series of beautiful drawings halfway in the film beginning in rural San Francisco and sequenced all the way to the hyper charged cityscapes of today with skies crossed over by power lines. That is the connect that popped to mind when I first saw your piece, which seemed more a photograph of a poster, à la Crumb, than an actual photograph. Anyway, whatever mojo you laid here I’m certain you channeled Crumb.

Thank you so much for the offer on the doc, Jack.

This is fantastic, Jack!

Regards,

Mário

A wonderful image, Jack! The airplane makes the photo, but not only. Everything and every detail here is just fantastic. Great work!