gallery picks for the weekend ending may 6

[paulfish4570]

Gallery Picks for Week Ending Sun may 6
Gallery Picks is an opportunity for you to post a heads up to what you have seen during the past seven days at RFF that you like.
There's no membership requirement, no criteria (except past seven days), no voting, no limit to the number of photos mentioned, and everybody mentioned is a winner.

Anybody can start the thread on a Monday.

Anybody can join in, it's a community event!

[Richard G]

dan1005. The thumbnail was not revealing, but this is a nice invention.


Rogrund. So subtle.


paulfish4570. A calming almost oriental cast to this image.



dotur. Beautiful subject, and a lovely smile. Lots of gentle curves from top to bottom of the image.


Carole Dame. Great shot. The brooding onlooker.


froyd. This is so good for so many reasons, not just him lugging goggles around on that new 35. The clean planar elements, the sharpness, the contrast, the fine engineering hemmed in by the brute concrete, the lone superman keeping back the wall and the heaving locomotives……..


petronius. Love shadow shots like this.


lynnb. A philosophical shot, tied up in a square format.


SimonSawSunlight. An unlikely conversation almost shaded out completely.


lksmdsn. Love the sharp wet cobblestones and the rest of the textures and light here.


tigerphil. Very, very beautiful.


semirch. The whirling Dervishes. That is a phrase ringing in my ear from a long time ago and here these guys are.


ChrisN. Great exposure choice, and perfect timing. Delicious.


Keith. This is so intimate and redolent of a world we'd like to join. Tarkovsky was invoked here recently and it is not inappropriate now.


hteasley. This is a very fine shot, not just the composition in terms of the graphic elements, but the calm red panel and the dreamy dark panel.

[Keith]

dotur




again




photony texas




serzz




again




dotur




Martini




mep




lynnb




Best of week for me is slantface's .... collodion wet plates.

[lynnb]

thanks Richard G and Keith.

my favourite of the week:

untitled by Richard (semrich). Composition, story, action, timing - Richard pulled it all together in this wonderful shot


more picks later..

[leica M2 fan]

This marvelous image is my favorite this week.

[f16sunshine]

Originally Posted by leica M2 fan

This marvelous image is my favorite this week.

Yes I fully agree!

[f16sunshine]

And a few more..

Sea Weeds.. agianelo


Holly-Buhl.. ribuzzclick


Semi-Nude..filmfan


6th Avenue..Mlehrman


plenty_more_..mep


taking flight..lynnb

[hteasley]

Thanks, Richard, for the mention. It remains a lovely surprise to me when a photo of mine is selected.

My picks this week:

zauhar, Gate Detail


Rob, High Heel


dotur, bathroom cabinet 1


SimonSawSunlight, istanbul 2012

[hteasley]

memphis, infrared elmwood


Lynn, taking flight I #0284


mudride, Ett porträtt på min älskade


Keith, **

[hteasley]

Richard G, L1002291


Merelyok, Symmetree


slantface, ambrotype #5


two from huntjump, the last being my favorite of the week
Thinking


Smiling is Contagious

[leica M2 fan]

Amazing color and very pleasant scene.

[Merelyok]

Thank you for the pic Leica M2 Fan, and i have to agree about this shot...



Wow, just wow. What a gobsmackingly stupendous shot!

[leica M2 fan]

Power and majesty!

[semrich]

I've got picks this week,

lynnb, This reminds me of a LeRoy Neiman painting, abstract, action, color and just enough detail of the skaters face.





zeroeseight, the Xpan does a nice job of conveying a scene similar to sifi movies of the crowd before the monster.





OurManInTangier, I like the presentation and sequence, fragments of the whole ritual.





dotur, I like how this takes in the whole scene of a space where so much creativity unfolds, and wonderful light and color.





Carole Dame, seen lots of street markets never with a dentist in amongst the other goods being offered up.





Mlehrman, lots going on in this I particularly like the expressions on the two women in the foreground.





Richard G, a lot to like about this shot.





froyd, great tones equal to the composition.

[paulfish4570]

tigerphil; it's the alignment:


photony texas; creeps me out:


carole dame; look how the childrern's head are in a line slashing across the frame:


petronius; the light, always the light:


froyd; it's hard for an architecture shot to get my attention:


georgeh; the mystery:


simonsawsunlight; witty:


keith; what a gentle eye on this one:


guosho; so much going on, so well arranged, so well timed:

[paulfish4570]

lynnb; lovely use of line and contrast:


mep; a daring use of space:


jesse1dog; deceptively complex:


brainwood; what a whimsical yet rigid composition:


gho; my favorite of the week; so complex yet fun:


rogrund; beautifully sad series:


hteasley; something fateful, or inevitable, about this one:

[paulfish4570]

richard g; another ghost in the glass:


aldenfender; so blue velvet:


robklurfield; so many of us see these things everyday,and rob has made one beautiful:


agianelo; crafty use of line and tone:


mlehrman; one of my favorite street shooters:


mep; he's a two-for this week:

[tigerphil]

from Lynnb



from mudride



from mep



from keith



from OurManInTangier



another from mudride

[photony texas]

lynnb


mep


paulfish4570


OurManInTangier


mudride

[photony texas]

Keith & paulfish4570, appreciate the pick this week.
Plenty of great shots showing up on the Monday Gallery this week...

[slantface]

Thanks so much Keith and Hteasley. I am working hard on getting better at wet plate, but it's a steep learning curve. Gotta figure out how best to clean up the dust too!

[robklurfield]

as always, far too many great images to include all my many, many favorites, but here's a few that seem to have been overlooked (just assume that I'm seconding EVERYTHING already posted!!!)...

Dave S.


dotour


dotour again


mlehrman


zauhar

[robklurfield]

froyd

[robklurfield]

although I'm trying not to repeat anything already posted, I can't help myself with this one from slantface. first of all, as others have said, it's a lovely image. secondly, I'm just impressed by the fact that he's doing wet plate work.

[robklurfield]

Paul and Harry, thanks for the mentions.