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Yikes! offal on the dock but with perfect light and lovely color, somehow its beautiful, ok its more disgusting but the light and color are great:)

I love the guy scratching his head, hmm how many guys to lift that queen?

Great! :)

The joys of (fairly) wide angle lenses.  You can see so much more when you see it like screen size.  Anyways, local swap meet at Orange Coast College and I often ride by in the afternoon on my bike when they are tearing it down, and the place is always a big mess, tons of trash, goop leaking from the food trucks, blech!! The bag is the one reason I put this one up, gives something in the foreground at least, and a taste of post-apocatswap-meet dystopia!

I know what you mean.  I wonder if PN is a color managed space. The same thing doesn't happen on flickr or even on Face Book. Even B/W photos loose their zing here.

Your usual eye for the unusual and interesting view point. So let's review, a shot from the back, a segment of road, bushes and trees everywhere, and yet this sings as a "street" photograph. Contemplating the contemplator.

Very nice picture, really well done and off-shore winds too!  Beautiful.

Great shot, quiet, yet the photo builds real tension. Love it!

Ruud, this is different from what I usually see in your work and I really think this is great! It has such a dream like quality, reminding me of the surrealists. Very hot!

I love this, you really captured her delight, the movement, the way her cloths are, the light all this is great.

Very nice, and lovely modeling with light, simple and good.

Anders, this is a really clean, precise and well done image.

Thanks Steve, I try to find them when I can.

Except no surfer in the wave though it does look like it.

Fabulous Steve, you are exactly right.  Not sure of the exact spot but you have the conditions correct.  I spent my youth body surfing in the OC, mostly 38th St Newport (big sandbar), later the groins when they were built, Brooks/Oak streets Laguna Beach, sometimes Salt Creek (had to sneak in those days), Cotton's point (the Nixon years western white house formerly the Cotton mansion, we used to change into our trunks in his specimen garden, never got hassled, though there were weird humming noises of electronic EMS of some kind and of course he wasn't there) and some of my buds had body surfed the wedge when big.  

I think he's getting ready to pull out a snub-nose 38.  Take my picture will ya??

Yes, a twisted photograph, and a nice little vignette. Excuse my ignorance but where is the Yodo river.

Thanks Jack, Wayne and Marie, so glad you like the pic.

thanks Wayne, I think:)...but all true as far as photo elements...so as you can imagine, this was impromptu. She popped out the bar saw my camera and struck this pose  We are talking in all about 3 seconds.  But when I saw the "I dream of Genie" shadow behind her, I had to max everything out.  So Cal in summer has really harsh light, and so you have to kind of learn to play with the shadows or you will go crazy.  Yes all  And its the USC Trojan football team and very important in Orange County:)

Nice pic, nice barber shop!

Nice shot..what Jack said.. Light's nice.

Really nice light and story.

Thank you Pierre.

Thanks all for the comments, all appreciated.  Terry, know that the technical "issues" were actually post-processing choices.