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Nice one Vlad, makes the commonplace particular, reveals the tao:)

How to say it other than I really like what is captured. Something in the moment when the person "dropped her mask"

Excellent!

Love the Tripod composition plus 1 (viewer). It seems just a snap shot of a buddy, but it has the quality of being caught in the act. And the prime witness is the seemingly nonchalant cluck cluck in the background. Really the elements add up to a little vignette in the story sense.

I love it. beautiful lighting, Soft, diffuse, understated. Gorgeous.

Thanks Marie. The other was just for laughs. I agree.

Thanks Chris.

I like this a lot. The tonality completely supports the immediacy of the photo, great subject matter nicely caught.

Nice and interesting use of space.

Excellent Vlad. You totally got the moment.

I can't help anthropomorphize this, but I could swear that scooter has a stiffy.

Beautiful photograph Tim!

Really nice Line!

Who yo look'n at!!??

 

Thanks Jack and Maurizio! Finally, rain reached Southern California.

hmmm, appears to be the sole survivor.

The way the forms desolve into the light and the gritty immediacy of the moment all speak of the now, not just where he came from or where he's going but that moment in between.

Nice, I like interplay between solid form, shadows, texture and abstract shapes, makes for an interesting visual stew and plays with perception of what is important. The object, the shadow's it cast or the shape not created by shadow.

Thanks Marie and Maurizio.

Thanks Arthur and Drew!!!

 

Elmo I've always liked this photograph. It was either this photo or another similar photo I saw of a man, maybe this man, in the same position on a rolling cart and he was on a religious journey that he required himself to basically crawl or roll in this manner for a really long distance on his pilgrimage   writing sayings all along his path. But if this isn't that photo, I like it just the same.  I don't think its disrespectful at all nor exploitive, in fact its just the opposite.

I like it too!

Bacchanalian?  Well, there are some empty beer cans I believe somewhere amongst the trashy remnants of a feast of Dionysus East L.A. style!

I think whatever the individual's in the back ground physical gender is, I think it just adds another element of the great juxtaposition of the people in the photo and the tension it creates.  Assuming its a guy dressed up as a woman (or wearing a kilt:) or just on a budget, the stance is really cool, I love the way people's stance says so much about what they are thinking, or feeling and how you can suggest a story by just looking how a person's posture is.  And the girl young, very nice looking and in action is such a nice contrast in both action and other factors. it both creates tension between the subjects but also, in that special way the camera does, creates a relationship, at least visually. Nice photo indeed!

But keep the stockings!  Did you wear a hood when you executed him?