Bosca Dubh

Nine lovely shots in this catch-up list. Next week I’ll be focussing on black and white photographs.

• Chairs from dreamprovised; I love the way the shallow DOF plays against the marching line of chairs.
• Laughing Policeman from Sights by Elizabeth; all cops should be so handsome and charming and self-posessed. It reminds me of the joke about Heaven being run by British policemen, German engineers, and French cooks. Hell, of course, has a different division of labor…
• Tines from 3 a.m. from Kyoto; the tone and texture work well with the geometry of this picture.
• Rainy day train from Express Train; a sort of unsettling composition, really interesting.
• Flowers at Your Feet from (bea); not just old but ancient, as if the librarians at Alexandria had discovered pinhole photography.
• Hotel Rochester from Haphazardous; I love the organic decay of this old building, and its wonderful sign–are the rooms transient, too?
• A Thousand Pigeons and a Boy from Point and Shoot; the flurry of wings, the very still boy, the space around him; magical.
• wa5 from overshadowed; are those scratches on the negative or lines of rain? The distressed feel of the picture adds to its atmosphere.
• my new business cards from this.vacant.sky; fabulous texture.