Not Quite Ready to Face the World
by Rebecca

Comment by Melethia:
This got posted in a nice long reply in a forum thread, and I'm delighted because it's good to see this again! Still marvelous. The thread is here if you're interested.

Duet
by Rebecca

Comment by KarenNfld:
Gorgeous detail and colours.

Natural Greens
by Rebecca

Comment by Prash:
Great shot. What lens did you use?

Keeping Tabs
by Rebecca

Comment by Connor:
nice shot

Keeping Tabs
by Rebecca

Comment by tph1:
Excellent composition and color. I like how the nose is tilted just into the frame.

Do-It-Yourself Makeover
by Rebecca

Comment by Melethia:
Very creative and very well executed! What a great idea - pleased to see how well you pulled it off, too!

Since Then
by Rebecca

Comment by Melethia:
Excellent technique, lovely image!

Since Then
by Rebecca

Comment by ubique:
Delicious. Bit sticky (could be the hairspray), but fine nonetheless.

Some Trees
by Rebecca

Comment by ubique:
This title is brilliant! Your little series of three deliciously delinquent images is terrific, and this offhand title proves it was no accident. Bravo!

Commuters
by Rebecca

Comment by ubique:
I like this because of its willful negligence.

There are far too many photographs that look just like photographs should: nice, organized, sharp, and lamentably coherent. Photographs accommodating only one possible interpretation. Photographs that are ultimately more about the photographer than anything else. Photographs that can be repeated by any hack, and that unfortunately so often are.

This photograph is none of that. It speaks instead of impulsiveness and the exhilaration of a moment that cannot be repeated, by this photographer or any other. And yet perhaps it's not so slap-dash after all? Everything that needs to be in it is in it, and all that doesn't isn't. The tilt is good because it's apt ... imagine how ill-suited it would be if it were meticulously level! And the focus, which in this case is no more than a mumbled threat, is perfect too. It provides just enough illumination for the viewer to navigate by, but not enough to be blinding.

The result is an ambiguous and unfinished image that can provide long minutes of exercise for the restless mind. And even then it's not done; no 'resolution' is ever going to be correct and final, so when you've finished looking at it you can start all over again and have a whole new experience!