mum
by posthumous

Comment:
More than anything, I'm delighted that the post isn't 'properly' in focus.

Aging (from the Sunset Series)
by wheeledd

Comment:

Originally posted by Ja-9: for me this borders on tasteless, I have grown up in an Elderly Care facility and it just screams exploiting....I am overly sensitive to this...sorry

I think this is an inaccurate reaction - it would scream 'exploitation' if it weren't so carefully composed, and indeed so carefully posed. Whilst there is no apparent attempt to 'airbrush' the image to produce a fake and sentimental kind of acceptability, there is likewise no attempt to show humiliation of the subject; it's a good honest photo - although of course very carefully organised and lit.

I'm surprised by the allegations of its being 'extreme' or the like, also: it worries me that in a world where you can't move for images of the flesh, the presentation of some that isn't tanned, made-up, styled, photoshopped and re-touched should be considered difficult. Surely the constant onslaught of the fake should be more worrying?

Rocking Chair
by posthumous

Comment:
I like it very much; there is the potential for chair, here.

Dog in the Road
by Blackbox

Comment:
Love the bizarreness of this - love that it looks like a balloon, love the OTT wacky processing. In fact all of it looks like a balloon, and the screen divider looks like a zip; this is some crazy world you inhabit, and I would like to come visit.

Imperial Round
by Pug-H

Comment:
Looks peaceful, no? The surround of your window, to my eye, is neither properly present nor properly dark - so I keep trying to find details in it rather than concentrating on your 'view'. A sense of exclusion from that peace might be present, but it isn't coming across strongly.

Afternoon At the Races
by Crafty

Comment:
A view into the peacock enclosure; I love the bizarreness of 'the races' - people dressed for a trashy chrome and steel cocktail bar standing around in a field;

Behind the Mask....
by witt34

Comment:
Mask as window ... doesn't do enough for me; I'm struggling to find anything to say, but it seems more about being a portrait than about anything to do with that 'window'. There's a certain blankness to that face, of course, as though there's a restriction on the facial muscles imposed by that breathing apparatus.

g l a s s
by TrollMan

Comment:
Neat graphic world here; but ... I don't know - lacking a human thing going on, really.

Portrait of Fall
by bvy

Comment:
I'm sure it has been validated, too. Tricksy, but in the end unsatisfying to me: perhaps that out of focus scene just tips it over the edge - making it clever-clever rather than clever-good, if you understand me?

another beautiful mess
by tate

Comment:
As family snapshots go, this is exquisite - and therefore, arguably, it is just exquisite period. It's fun, funky, clever, and really well composed. It ain't gonna solve, or even hint at, any of the eternal mysteries, but ... who has the time, yeah?