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we see lousy weather - it's dawn or dusk and it is raining or the rain had just stopped - we see a highway, just one car is coming - slowly, as there is a marking on the road - slowly, because pedestrians could be crossing - but there is nobody - the shot was probably take thru the front window of a car - the sky is gray and looks leaden and occupies about half of the image - the colors of the landscape are only faintly perceptible
this photo transports mood and sentiment in an extraordinary way - loneliness, not exactly knowing or seeing where the way leads us - i involuntarily look for a dry and sheltered place - the car, the photographer is sitting in, is just a little island, not enough to feel comfortable - the leaden sky is more like a menace
it's a wonderful photo

we see a sculpture, colored in a bleached red - and there is that peanut- or kidney-shaped hole, which both show the depth of the sculpture and (even more important) a green background - this green could be leaves or something else, we don't know - the contrast of the two-dimensional monochrome surface and that green contrast is just fascinating - the organic form of the hole and that vivid green dominate the image and the eye gets automatically drawn to this spot - the image is well-balanced, the colors both contrast and match
it's a wonderful photo

the portrait is out of focus, the crop is unusual, the color is unnatural and there are some strange scratches running straight thru the photo - a total miss?
the contrary is true - the focal blur adds essentially to the uncertainty and vagueness this images transports - the gesture of the person indicates a deep emotion, which also remains uncertain -  the crop is perfect, the composition needs empty space above the head and the photographer did right to put the right eye of the person in the center of the image - the color is ambivalent, blue with a red tint - some parts are grey, some almost black - again uncertainty - the lightning-like scratches add abruptness, brutality, unfinishedness to the athmosphere
it's ambiguity make this a wonderful photo

i get a bit dizzy looking at this image - everything is in motion - i can hardly detect what exactly is shown: a conveyor? a railroad track? i can see houses to the left and right, and some cars - and i can see that the photographer was moving, moving, moving - the title of the image is on spot: speed - the fact, that the vanishing point is disappearing behind the slope in front, makes the sense of speed even more dramatic for me - the velocity of movement reduces the colors to bleachy tones
this is a wonderful photo

a dark room - a woman in front almost nude, wearing red (bourdeaux) lingerie - no head, no feet, no hands - one can see the lower part of the neck - the skin has an alien touch, it's almost green - on her right knee one can see something, which could be her dragged down slip
the image is erotic in a strange way - the dark background puts the accentuation on the body, but at the same time it is also dominating and intimidating - what is going on back there? the unnatural skin color produces a strange feeling - why does the lighting show this unfavorable color? - and there are even blowouts on the skin - the body almost looks like a merchandise product being displayed - so it's an erotic scene, but of that kind, where one feels like a visitor to a peepshow - it is this ambiguity and difference from the "normal" erotic image which makes this a wonderful photo

a place in front of a church (probably) - we see a young lady - maybe she already waited for a pretty long time (and no one showed up) - anyway, she doesn't look too happy - her gesture is indicating indignation and she is looking nowhere - behind her a wall, almost overpowering her small figure - and in the upper left there is a tomb slab - the juxtaposition of this old plate and the young lady is strange and funny at the same time - if the space below her feet were not cropped so tightly, the composition would have been perfect - this is a great candid shot and a wonderful photo

blue, white, grey, black - a wonderful curve, pointing up at the right - the photographer looked from down below, up to the sky - the buildings surrounding the point of view limit the deep blue, shaping that great curve - the placement of the colors is absolute on the spot, the composition is stunning - i just love that white line bordering the black building at the top of the image - simple, almost bold, yet creating a very effective optical signal  - this is a wonderful photo

a white background - and then there is the slope of a rollercoaster - five waggons with people who are obviously enjoying themselves - the speed seems to be high, as the hair of some passengers flutter in the wind - the crop is just perfect - the understructure of the rollercoaster forms a terrific pattern - and then the slope: it's a perfect arc - the outlines are reduced and it's more a work of graphic than a photo - one could argue about the frame, but this is just a matter of taste - it's a wonderful image

a lady in a (black) dress - she turns her back towards the viewer, almost like she were shy - with her left hand she is lifting the dress a bit, like little girls do when they are proud to show their new clothes - we cannot see the head of the lady, the crop only shows the parts from her neck to her knee - the image is soft and grainy at the same time, the color is a monochrome brownish yellow - the light is on the left side, accentuating the contours of her arm, the right side of her is almost fading into the background - her gesture seems both shy and coquettish - the composition is on the spot and it's a pleasure to look at the photo for a longer time - it's a wonderful image

lots of red and black - and some blue and yellow - a very colorful image - we see three kids in front of the video wall in the millenium park in chicago, where the fountain right next wets the ground - the kids are having fun, refreshing in the water and being fascinated by the changig images on the video - we see only their silhouettes, the left kid is running and it's contours are blurred - the gestures of the figures are great and so are the shadows on the wet surface - there is a harmonious concept to this photo, even though i wish to see a bit more of the video wall at the top and and black parts at the bottom cropped - still, the terrific gestures, the wonderful shadows and the intensity of the colors turn this into a wonderful image

a crow picking for some food - this is the stuff that uninteresting photos are made of - but here we see it thru the eyes of helmut, widely known as nightphotographer - this crow is sitting on a rail in front of a light blue wall, broken up by a dark window and a red pole - there is really not much to see in this image, but lots to admire - the composition is absolutely perfect - the horizontal and vertical strong elements are disrupted by the only living thing, the crow - the juxtaposition of the formal lines by the organic animal is just terrific - the colors are strong and clear, as always with helmut - i have not seen many photos by him, where something alive is depicted - this is the reason why i just love this picture in all his great works - this is a wonderful image

early evening in the countryside - the enormous sky above covers more than 80 percent of the image, in the rest we see to the left several and to the right just one tree, and in between a yellow wheatfield and some green crop - the shadows from a forest we cannot see are tossed over the field crossing a couple of tracks from a tractor - there is a great tranquillity in this image, one can almost feel the approaching end of a day and the silence of the night - there are no visible people, but we see the tracks of their work in nature - and then there is this enormous sky - in a darker blue to the sides and the top, ranging from white to almost black -  this sky almost squeezes down the landscape - this is a wonderful image

a night scene - a railroad bridge, the photographer was standing right next to the tracks - we faintly see the steel structure of the bridge itself, some distant lights from the city nearby are not enough to illuminate the scenery - but a train just passed by and we see the tracks of its tail lights - two white lines are their traces and they end in the center of the image - the angle between the two traces and the reflection on the railroad tracks produce an interesting optical effect - one can see some ghostly remains from the passing train - the photographer chose a color with a brown tint: this gives the photo a somewhat ominous touch -  although the images indicates speed, the most intense effect is that of depth (vanishing point) - this is a wonderful image

when i saw this image for the first time some months ago, it immediately caught my eyes - what an arrangement !! - just four hands in front of a dark background, that's all - two hands of a black and two of a white forming a cascade - the lines of the fingers of the top hand point to the left, the others show downwards - every little detail is obviously planned, together they form a terrific s-shaped tower of hands - every change in the composition would cause a loss of quality - a masterpiece - this is a wonderful image

a thick rope and a lot of knots, tied to several poles - some other poles are in the background, as well as some grassy plants - some poles are also tied together by a rusty wire - it seems to be late afternoon - the sun is casting golden light on the scene - what purpose does this bunch of knots have? it's safe but it would take a lot of time to disentangle - the photographer took a photo of a mundane object - isolated from the context it's more of a riddle, composed and illuminated well - this is a wonderful image

green, all green - this is the first impression of this image - a six-seating bench in the underground (presumably), black leather - green tiles and a green emergency exit sign - white and black lines, that's all - an unpersonal light, nobody to see - all empty, a symbol for loneliness - all green - aesthetic horror - great photography - great arrangement, phantastic crop - this is a wonderful image (one of a whole bunch of great seating arrangements of the photographer)

a (almost) black and white scene of a roofed place - the place itself is paved, a stripe of grids and a rough wall close it to the left - the ceiling is broken up on the left side and there are diagonal rays of light reaching from the apertures to the grids - a couple is walking on the pavement, well contrasted to the bright entry of the paved place - i'm sure that i have seen a similar scenery quite often, but i never bothered to take a photo of it - fortunately the photographer has a better eye and saw the potential of this - the contrasts are impressive, the composition of the dark and lit parts of the picture is simply ingenious - i just love the diagonal rays of light and the silhouettes of the couple - this is a wonderful image