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What the heck is that thing?

I would like this much better if it were sharper.

unusual. good.

 

Lovely shot.

Really, really good. Provocative.

Wow. Spectacular. One hopes it's in a format that could be successfully printed in a larger size.

Awful.

Great! I love trees. Not so sure about Texas, not these days, but trees... Ahhh! Is this a particularly famous one? The poor Goshen Elm in Maryland, the oldest tree in the state, is enclosed in a 15x15 fenced plot next to some development of 'Uber-homes.' Being famous is no protection...

Some guy from West Virginia put up sets of three crosses all over the place but mostly the mid-Atlantic area. Soooo... one of the instructors where I take photography courses, Tico Herrera, won a Guggenheim photography grant to take pictures of them -- he spent a year or so living out of a camper shooting a 4x5. But that was some time ago. Still, there's a small slice of American photographic history here!

I think it might be Hart, but I'm not sure. In any case, here's an interesting link to an article about one of the Cathedral's main stonecarvers:

 

http://www.jeanstephengalleries.com/hart-wolfe.html

Remarkable. It's been done a bazillion times but this does it again in a new way. Love the pastel look about the road and the sky. Excellent!

They are, just barely. The scan cropped a tiny bit but they're cut off beyond that -- but the feet merged into the base rather abruptly too, and I decided I'd rather have just the toes without the base. On the print, with margins, it's much less obvious.

Maybe a post-Raphaelite, I dunno. Not sure about the composition, and I definitely don't like the model's blank expression, but there's something that works with the stone, the white, the colors moving around. Unusual without making a fuss about it. Very good!

Wow. I don't ordinarily like these, but this one has a lot of pop. Great!!

It's not happening. I'm sure there's a way to do bunches of grasses, but this isn't it. They're sort of partly arranged but not arranged. The colors aren't working together. All it says to me is "plastic," which isn't that easy to do, considering it's all organic material...

Nice. Looks like a lot of work, too.

Kind of scary but I like this sort of stuff.

Wonderful!! Very beautiful.

Actually, there was a good five feet behind me. The SWC is pretty wide... I wanted to just catch the top of the arch, which I did by chance. At that time I didn't have the viewscreen for the SWC; now I do. For this kind of shot it would be useful, as for my "chair" shot in the Cathedral, which, as somebody pointed out, had a slightly out of focus foreground, which could/should have been fixed. Thanks for your comment!

I think I shot this with a 50FLE, which I've since sold in favor of the SWC.

 

How many people know that the Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank? Yes, in fact, it is! Read the act that created it.

 

But try to get the various branches of the Fed to divulge even a summary of their current ownership... Talk about how secretive money runs things...

 

 

My barber, who's now back in Guatemala, much to the regret of the Greek who owns the neighborhood shop. That's not me in the chair.

 

The Xenotar lens, btw, is amazingly sharp, which you can't really see with these scans. Every hair on the barber's forearm is clearly distinct.

Tech Pan is difficult to work with because it's so high contrast. This was one of my earliest efforts, shot with my Rolleiflex. I tend to like the subject, though I would re-shoot it quite differently now.

 

This is the DC jail (the main jail), as seen from the adjacent grounds of Congressional cemetery, where I used to go regularly to walk my dog. The particular set of tombstones in the photograph are all alike because they belong to members of a military unit killed in a particular action. Otherwise the monuments are of all sorts -- among others J. Edgar Hoover and Matthew Brady are buried there.

Yes, this was Sunday's Rolling Thunder. Not sure what's by his foot. (I was lucky to find him alone in the middle of the road -- soon after I started shooting several photographers swarmed him at very close quarters.)

Maybe this guy was a Vietnam POW. I didn't ask. From the Rolling

Thunder Memorial Day event in Washington DC.

 

Earlier posted in reverse -- Bzzzt!!! Thanks for pointing that out.

All comments welcome.

Beautiful. Philosophical and poetic. Unique qualities. Kudos to you!