Without Prejudice 2

[muntanela]

Vaccinium microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Schmalh., Eastern grosina Valley.

It's a very tiny glacial relict and very rare in Italy.

[David Eckels]

I learned only the other day: in the human animal, the ears and the nose never stop growing.

It's not that, Rob. It is that the rest of the skin on the head recedes leaving, well, the nose and the ears

Dr Dave

PS Handsome. All three portraits.

[Rob C]

It's not that, Rob. It is that the rest of the skin on the head recedes leaving, well, the nose and the ears

Dr Dave

PS Handsome. All three portraits.

I can see a logic to that, Dave, as the hair sets a precedent. But I do think that the ears, especially, seem to grow a lot longer - as if there were an elephant in the family. Now for the sake of our PC friends here, I'm not in the least knocking elephants - some of my best friends are elephants - it's just that there's a right time and place for even the greatest of them, and I hardly feel that's hanging from the side of one's head.

In fact, I think that the skull changes shape too: inspection of the pink bandana image shows the bandana to be slighty high on the forehead. For it to look right, it should be lower down, almost at the eyebrows. It always starts there, but drifts upwards... I find the same sartorial inconvenience in winter, when those nice wooly hats (that are supposed to cover the ears and insulate the crown) end up above the ears. and tilted rakishly backwards à la pixie, not at all the look I am after.

Could this be the onset of a decline to simian forebears?

Rob

[David Eckels]

Could this be the onset of a decline to simian forebears?

Perhaps ascent? Why worry? Be happy Here's a shot from an Argentine Giant cactus flower taken with my new J5 attached to the Nikkor 70-200 f/4

[brianrybolt]

Taken in Newhaven, East Sussex, UK

[pegelli]

Who needs expensive advertising or big billboards?

[Rob C]

Who needs expensive advertising or big billboards?

Nice photograph - irony, too, with the paint job being perfectly suited to red wine, but the 'commercial', nonetheless, for white!

It's one of the things that makes this form of 'street' (as I seem to think of the genre) so interesting - one doesn't always need people... enough their traces.

Rob

[Chairman Bill]

Boring landscape. Not street. No wine. Sorry.

[GrahamBy]

Something from Barcelona, late, listening to buskers.

BTW, the standard for buskers in Barcelona is incredible: we're not talking unemployed teens, these are people in their 50's and 60's who presumably have been been playing/singing since they were kids, in a culture where classical guitar is serious stuff...

[GrahamBy]

Boring landscape. Not street.

A bridge is sort of a street, isn't it?

[GrahamBy]

There were lots of photographers... of different degrees of seriousness...

[GrahamBy]

And here is some lens flare.

[Rob C]

And here is some lens flare.

Tout ce qu'il faut, c'est une fille avec une cigarette:

Helmut Newton, Rue Aubriot, Yves Saint Laurent, French Vogue, Paris 1975.

;-)

Rob

[GrahamBy]

Indeed so, and I have another version without the flare, but the fille in the billowy black robe is replaced by a middle aged mec in a t-shirt.
I opted for the content

For reference (although there were several: I think Newton lived in rue Aubriot at the time??)

https://ongallery.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/newtonh_rue-aubriot.jpg

[Rob C]

Indeed so, and I have another version without the flare, but the fille in the billowy black robe is replaced by a middle aged mec in a t-shirt.
I opted for the content

For reference (although there were several: I think Newton lived in rue Aubriot at the time??)

https://ongallery.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/newtonh_rue-aubriot.jpg

If you don't aready have some Helmut books, I'd recomment the mini-Sumo: it's already a huge volume in both senses of huge, comes with its own thick, perspex stand, and when I got mine, retailed at just about €100. It's my only Helmut tome and worth ever penny. Taschen, of course.

Do you ever buy French PHOTO? I used to for a good many years, and apart from discovering a lot of interesting shooters, it helped me remember a little of the little of the language that I'd learned at school. Never had mecs and cons in school lessons, though...

Rob

[pegelli]

Different times, different tools.

But still available in one shop 

[Chairman Bill]

Who're ewe looking at?

[GrahamBy]

Pieter, at first I thought those pink and blue objects were for an older type of feminine selfie...

Rob: yes, I was tempted by mini-Sumo at christmas when the Taschen store in town had a stack of them. Then again my Scottish blood calculated that just before xmas was not a good time to be a buyer in the market :-) I already have a pocket-size collection of Newtons, and a couple of later soft-bounds. One of them is the "Us and Them", which collects portraits by Alice of Helmut, by Helmut of Alice, and by either of others.

Having Sumo is still tempting... one day :-)

Photo, I have a few copies about still. One had a very nice collection of Jonvelle... First time I bought it was when visiting Paris as a student in the late 80's. Subscription from Australia would have been well outside my budget, but I would occasionally pick up copies as they arrived by chance in the Technical Bookstore in Melbourne. That was also the source of most of my photo books at the time: the ones that were cheap after having been pawed-over extensively without selling. Bought Mapplethorpe's book on Lisa Lyon that way...

Wonderful store: mathematics, architecture, photography, computer science, motorcycles... It seems they folded a few years back :-(

[GrahamBy]

More Barcelona night-time laneway

[pegelli]

More Barcelona night-time laneway

Reminded me of a shot I took in Madrid a few years ago (2011)



Quite different, but still it was the first shot I thought of after seeing yours.