Repent
by williamflewelling

Comment:
This is my top pick. I don̢۪t understand it, which is most of why I like it. My thoughts as I considered the photograph: I don̢۪t understand the idea of repentance, don̢۪t understand churches, don̢۪t undertand trading life for afterlife. And I don̢۪t understand what that wooden object is, nor why it̢۪s here. But the photograph is quietly beautiful, and suggests it̢۪s got a little secret insight for me, if only I̢۪ll look a little longer. But I won̢۪t. I̢۪m too old and wise to change my ways :)
9. Thank you.

keep moving
by jmritz

Comment:
I know how you did it, but I still can̢۪t entirely resolve it. That̢۪s a good thing of course. I prefer photographs that defy resolution. 8. Thank you.

bearing his own
by tvsometime

Comment:
Startling symmetry. Well made photograph too, exposure and all the rest of the tech stuff. But the best detail, the one that makes me look again and longer, is the second man looking down at the kid. That emphasises the ‘different drum’ nature of the kid’s presence in this scene. A clever photograph then. 8. Thank you.

Black Dog
by krnodil

Comment:
This is a very good depiction of the black dog. One of the most magical things about a photograph is that it can show two things at once. I don̢۪t mean as in double exposure or superimposition. I mean two points of view of the same instant. That̢۪s what the black dog feels like. 8. Thank you.

every step
by jmritz

Comment:
This is my favourite in the challenge. Given all the mostly-incomprehensible photographs that I produce myself, I have no option but to enjoy and love this. And of course, I do. Maybe you're the only one that's perceptive enough to know that the true hidden meaning of shoes is the tracks they leave in passing, and that the more obscure and confounding the marks, the more profound the journey. Or maybe your camera just went off accidentally. Either way, I'm loving this. 10. Thank you.

bamboo acrobatics
by krnodil

Comment:
I'm not a bug shot person, but you sure are! 8. Thank you.

Rainy Night
by aznym

Comment:
Yep. That's right in my street (figuratively). 8. Thank you.

My Fellow Passenger
by sueshi

Comment:
Yes. 8. Thank you.

Trishaw city ride
by JLOH

Comment:
Oh, her hands cradling his face is everything here. 8. Thank you.

paper butterflies
by jmritz

Comment:
I have made many comments here on DPC that I tried to make go beyond the banal, but nothing I have ever said approaches this comment for insight into celebrating the transformative magic of a thoughtful photograph. You are The Man, Modricker. And for that I ... thank you.

Originally posted by posthumous: I imagine that a lot of people are misscoring this photo. These supposed gatekeepers of photography are ironically forgetting photography and looking only at the subject of the photograph, but to score the subject of the photograph is to score people on their ability to travel to nice places, instead of their artistry. Some people think that photographic skill is creating a sharp, accurate representation of what is in front of them. And surely this used to be the case, in the time of Leonardo da Vinci for example, it took great innovation and intelligence and skill to depict something with accuracy and detail. Now, of course, your phone does it for you. So surely we must look elsewhere for the photographer. The artist who was once faced with the formidable task of replicating reality is now faced with the formidable mechanical regurgitation of reality eradicating his/her role in the process. One solution, this one, is to point the machine at something that is supposedly not worth replicating, and showing how it is transformed by point of view and framing. How instantaneous and obvious you have made this very mystical idea that photography is about how you see and not what you see.

Message edited by author 2018-04-21 23:14:46.