jump
by mitalapo

Comment by PennyStreet:
A wild leap

jump
by mitalapo

Comment by tnun:
hope you make it. always a nightmare when the highway ahead upcurls its wanton tongue.

Bear and friends
by mitalapo

Comment by bjoern:
Unfortunately the eyes of the man are a bit dark/dull. Otherwise a nice shot.

Bear and friends
by mitalapo

Comment by kiwinick:
Nice father and child but hate the cropped head .

Bear and friends
by mitalapo

Comment by Cyrilda:
The top of the man's head has been severed.

Pairs of sorts
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Comment by daisydavid:
To paraphrase Francis Bacon...Some essays are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested..... This, for me, to be the last. Thanks for the celebration of life.

Pairs of sorts
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Comment by 2mccs:
I have always enjoyed your images of people. I often recognize them in a challenge because there is something so genuine about them. It is a treat to see a whole group of them together.

Pairs of sorts
by mitalapo

Comment by mitalapo:

Originally posted by ubique: I'm not saying much about the essay. It's fun, diverting and good to the last drop. Yum. Can I have another cup, please? Others have reacted to your essay much as I'd have tried to do, so contributing one more of those doesn't much interest me. Instead, I'm commenting about you. You know that I've always appreciated your work. You must, from the many comments you've inspired from me. And I mean appreciated in both senses ... as in applauded and as in understood. Here's what I love, and it's demonstrated yet again in the idea for this essay: you have always used photography as a path to observation. And now I mean observation in both senses, as in seen and as in remarked upon. For you, photography doesn't seem to be anything more nor less than a language. Most photographers produce photographs that say, "Aren't I just amazing?" Your photographs say, "Aren't you curious?" Thank you for that difference.

That is so very kind of you, Paul. In a way it brings closure to something: you were the one to introduce me to Paolo Pellegrin's observation that an unfinished open-ended work allows viewers to chime in and take part in a dialogue around a photograph. I only try to incite a conversation, which more often than not I find to be way more interesting than the art or the artist.

Pairs of sorts
by mitalapo

Comment by mitalapo:

Originally posted by mariuca: A splendid idea this Pairs of Sorts and a great approach to the topic. Now what I think that the next step could be to make a book and at the end (or beginning) put a table of contents (or errata) with a thumb of each image and Don's text. I'll buy it on the spot. And since I am fond of rhymes: We are a perpendicular pair, going no every where. I am purple. You are pink. We complement, I think. Don

That's a great idea. Especially since based on one of Don's texts I have reasons to believe he is actually a witch. I dare him telling which and why.

smoker
by mitalapo

Comment by mariuca:
Where it shows the effect of smoking on the lungs. Watch the smoke!