Remarquable et Excellemment partagée.
Bonne et agréable semaine paisible et reposante.

So melancolic. Your picture has hit my punctum.

I’d set out on a familiar evening walk, hoping to find something to photograph. The light had almost gone when I saw this arrangement through a window in the old chapel. It seemed to add the final touch, for me, to a day that saw many of us pay our respects to a much loved former colleague.

Reading some of Camera Lucinda again I liked this passage:

-Many photographs are, alas, inert under my gaze. But even among those which have some existence in my eyes may provoke only a general and, so to speak, polite interest: they have no ‘punctum’ in them: they please or displease me without pricking me: they are invested with no more than ‘studium’. The studium is that very wide field of unconcerned desire, of various interest, of inconsequential taste: I like/ I don’t like. The studium is of the order liking, not of loving; it mobilises a half desire, a demi-volition; it is the same sort of vague, slippery, irresponsible interest one takes in the people, the books, the entertainments, the clothes one finds “all right”.

Hits my punctum also!

Outstanding Steve

Thanks Richard.

Beautiful !!!!!!!

In a sort of way.

Fantastic shot.

Between the dead and the wounded, someone will escape.
The yellow flower tries to resist...
There is hope, Steve!

I’ve escaped for the moment, Judite, now I’m on the run, taking it day by day, like us all...

Roland Barthes was hit by a truck on his way from a luncheon meeting with President François Mitterand. He died at a Parisian hospital a few hours later.

a great one

Fantastic photo!

Awesome compo!

Superb I love everything about this

a wonderful image my friend

Have a nice evening!

Death is waiting you open the window, Steve! Outstanding composition, I have to say!

I’m keeping that window closed, Armando. I’m plotting against Death; he’s grown complacent, he can’t catch me!