Gallery Picks for the week ending March 4, 2013

[icebear]

Thanks Rob for mention of two of my concert shots.

 

[gb hill]

Thank you jim for your kind mention.

 

[lynnb]

thanks Carterofmars, Harry, Richard G, Tigerphil and Jim for mentioning my photos - much appreciated!

 

[robklurfield]

Luigi, Phil, Jim and Jim, thanks for the generous acknowledgement. Much appreciated.

 

[froyd]

BK1970 - All the picture in this series are fascinating and I would not mind having them hand on my walls. Could not pick a favorite among all of them so this one has to represent the group. Would love to hear more about your process.

Robkufield - Great idea. Man Ray would be jealous!

Sazerac - It's like you were not even there. Great capture.

hefring - it's all been said by nearly everyone before me, but I still could not omit your powerful image.

 

[robklurfield]

Froyd, thanks.

 

[leica M2 fan]

Two lamps by Joao

Two lamps by Joao

Favorite of the week.

 

[rhl-oregon]

Taskoni: the water beyond the gate--subtly menacing but also promising in the presence of snow



Barnwulf: kind of a ditto. A dry landscape with rainclouds and baby sharks on the way. The tones and contrasts are dreamlike, the grass too bright somehow (in a good way).


Rob: all of these make me hungry to cook with g&g.


yprimayadi: a portrait of hard work, endurance, and fortitude. And gorgeous yellows and reds and umbers. He wears his sweat like jewels.



Carterofmars: in Paul Strand territory. No, Jacob Riis. Powerful.

Ntruj: wonderful serpentine, horizontals, verticals, and a daylight moon in a black sky. And it's a toilet complex. I want to go.


Sykomor: talk about a dreamscape! The water and tiles are appealing, but the chandelier is weirdly threatening, and the swimmer can seemngly go nowhere.



Tuna: Another weirdly compelling image of a disquieting imbalance about to pull its subject off his chair as the world seems collapsing to the right.

Maiku: now there's some Paul-Strand-weathered-siding. Great tonal range. Perhaps all its says is Do Not Enter, but the interior glow, the oddly white chain, the fallen downspout tell another story.

Greyscale: what is the opposite of a palimpsest? I love the old messages emerging from beneath one another. Would love to see a straight-on shot with no other context but the brick.


Hefring: pretty sure I picked this last week. I'm picking it again. Masterful sidelight and surround of shadows, and the closed eyes humble despite her obvious stature.


Vince Lupo: the reverence was already in this museum room. But the photograph honors it. Splendid light and solemnity.


Joao: Wish I had one of these cabinets. But not with dismembered dolls in it. This is another waking dream calmly registered.


Semrich: wonderfully lit human contours. Go to the light!


LynnB: master of waves. This is splendid in all three zones of the image. Debussy should come back from the dead to perform La Mer for Lynn.

 

[rhl-oregon]

But wait! There's more!

Another vote for Bushwick's bridgescape.


And Keith's Platonic bike--in Eden, apparently. Oddly restful.


And Phil's heavenly and supremely cool GRD grain. What a camera. (Glad I have 2.)

 

[rhl-oregon]

I'm very very grateful for the critical support of a difficult subject close to my soul. Thanks Phil, Rob, Luigi, Adam, Tony, Straightmp, and Jim.

 

[leica M2 fan]

Crown Fountain by robkurfield

Crown Fountain by robkurfield

Definitely 3 dimensions to this great photo- one of the best of the week.

 

[leica M2 fan]

Untitled by semrich

Untitled by semrich

Stunning photo leaves you shaking your head! Super shot.

 

[kaspartuu]

 

[Sykomor]

Thanks rhl-oregon and kaspartuu. Highly appreciated.

 

[Richard G]

Thank you tigerphil, luiman and barnwulf for noticing some of my pictures. It is always a pleasure, and a surprise, to be in your company and with the others here.

 

[bk1970]

Thank you, froyd!

 

[luiman]

Phil and Jim, thank you for the mentions, much appreciated!

 

[Richard G]

That little girl nearest the camera in Sazerac's marvellous picture has her legs demurely crossed, and her skirt so perfectly disposed and the left hand in her lap so elegant. The word robklurfield used in his comment about her cheeky attitude was 'insouciance', wonderful word. I now see that in her right hand is a rock, and that the elegant left hand holds a stone. The photographer is brave as well as clever.

 

[robklurfield]

Tony and Kasparatuu, thank you.

Richard, I'll stick with insouciane.

 

[tigerphil]

Many thanks to barnwulf and RHl-oregon for the mentions!