Concrete Wrapped in Fog
by Bruce_the_Robert

Comment:
I love the title! I love the photo! Man, think about it, perfect geometry of the buildings, and amorphos humans, yet chaotic, still there's a lot of space not to get lost. Good, very good... I could see this as a cover of a story or a novel...

archetype
by Gordon

Comment:
Very very very very very nice geometry!

Before laserjets and inkjets
by Melethia

Comment:
A very good photo. At first, I found the motion of the hand quite disturbing, but now I've got used to it, so it's OK, I guess. Add to it the tension of this man's face, which I still want to be without the slight blur, and I realize that something important is going on.
A comment about the title: I don't like how the old is defined based on the new, because the new will be old, and the old was new before. So, by reading the title, the new is drawn into the picture, where it doesn't belong. This image is a nice presentation of something old, where old is defined by my experience - I hope "my" will include other DPC viewers as well.

Still, a very nice presentation that refreshes the memories from history lessons at school. In a perfect world, that quite modern NHT design would be some banner for the next weeks demonstrations. Over all, I loved the bottles and the details of the machine, bolts and the arch shapes.

Message edited by author 2008-02-06 23:23:24.

The Transporter
by goc

Comment:
There are so many twos: hair and the bush, hair and the plastic bag, the shadow on the ground and the vertical pose of the body, the bright field and the dark place where garbage is (I guess)... Does he drop the plastic bag or does he throw it? It's scary how dull the nature looks, so hungry... Luckily, the spring is around the corner, so there will be some green and flowers and what not, and, hopefully, this transporter will find new ways of processing garbage.

self portrait #4
by tase

Comment:
I'm surprised by the high number of confused commenters that didn't see the self portait immediately. I think it's quite emphasised, more than the portrait of the girl...
I like the play and double interpretations that this image offers: there's a picture framed by her sunglasses, a very good picture in its own right, and the title asks the viewer to pay attention to it. But, then, there is this portrait of this lady, and one might think that the being of the photographer has a meaning only because of her. So, she should be the subject, she should be the topic of this photo. But no, wait a sec, what's she thinking about, why does she take this pose? And the answer: because there's a photographer there, again he gets all the attention. To state the obvious: the photographer doesn't ruin the photo, he is the photo. Narcissist, I'd say.

Plink!
by hughletheren

Comment:
It looks like a still from the BBC's Horizon.

Peace
by posthumous

Comment:
Why is Peace the sexy thing, what happened to Justice? No more Wise Men to tell the Right from Wrong? I know there are a few out there...

As for the photo, just like a few others, couldn't tell that's Iraq. Also, the V of fingers (wasn't this what Sir Winston did to say that he won those Germans?), so the V of fingers doesn't look very natural. Given the open but not smiling mouth, it rather looks like the globe, with everything in it, is falling and you are in great trouble to keep it there. Well, in a way, that's the truth, isn't it?

The best thing in the photo is the hair: good light, good shapes and fluidity in it. In my opinion.

Those Teenage Years
by got2bgutsy

Comment:
Like with yellowish, college-ish would be an adjective hinting to a somewhat college feel of this shot. I don't know why I thought this would be a college instead of a house, maybe because of the jeans (if I girl in my place has these kind of jeans, she'd definitely be in college), or maybe becuase of the empty floor. It could have been the sad face (I think it's sad because it feels homesick, and it feels homesick because it's looking out of the window).

I'l like to recommend again what Michael has said: experiment with lights. I guess you can get a couple of compact fluorescent table lamps and place them behind and sideways, so as to paint the scene with light. The point is seeing the light. A good (and very difficult) excercise would be getting rid of the reflections. Can you put a light source outside?

Oh my God !
by thierr26

Comment:
It looks like it's in the middle of the title, at the my part, and, by the look, I know it'll never reach the God part, because you just found out there's no God! Good light and monochrome conversion.

Me Two
by Nordlys

Comment:
Good, a honest presentation, and a full one at that, of one's portrait.