woohoo i'm first~! keep up the great work~

hmm...I'm not sure about this one...kinda freaked me out actually, but the backdrop is really nice

what the fuck?

ugly...

...only because it looks like Tina Turner ;-)

I think it's a cool image...It makes me think 'If I had a woman like that chasing me, I'd board a ship and go to sea...' :-))

I think it is exquisitely beautiful! The goddess beckoning.

Or perhaps it is a man. Not sure whether or not that would still be the goddess beckoning :-)

Whatever...the photo is beautiful.

does nobody read the titles anymore? ;-)

Its not the first time you have mentioned you like this type of shot. You appreciate when you have captured a gritty down to earth shot of street life more than any others. However, its only a "copy" or a side glance. I suspect you want to do more in this area. Your sitting in your comfort zone. I suspect you want to take more risks. Either personal circumstances, or in fact this blogg, or holding you back. You've shared your heart, your technique, but when are we going to see your guts?

The collision of images here is like a cut in a movie - makes the tranquility of sea and sky seem very inviting.

"... but when are we going to see your guts?"

Good question ... on which I will ponder.

In the exif data, under exposure compensation, what does the FEC mean? Does that mean that the compensation was made in the raw converter? And if so, does -2/3 (-2/3 FEC) mean -2/3 in camera, and then another -2/3 in the raw converter? Just curious, because you don't shoot in manual too much....maybe this is the beginning of us seeing your guts? Either way, you are teaching me a ton, and taking beautiful shots that liven up my day. =)

dead as leaves: FEC is Flash Exposure Compensation; i.e. dialing down the flash as well as the camera's exposure.

Please explain "does nobody read the titles anymore?" I'm honestly ignorant of your meaning, and your comment followed my three, so I'd love an explanation.

joan: it wasn't directed at you, more an observation that nobody picked up Mark's point in relation to the title; i.e. this is Tina Turner ... Nut Bush City Limits (the song) ... photgraph of Tina Turner at the edge of the ocean (metaphor for City Limits), and so on. Never mind, I guess it wasn't quite such a clever title as I thought ;-)

Ok, and just to confuse things further, I've changed the title to 'nut bush' :-) Probably no more obvious, but never mind.

Looks skanky!

Tut tut... other people's art? Can't see the merits...

Sorry, couldn't resist! I find this interesting only in as much as the lighting in the photo on the right doesn't match the lighting I'd expect from the outside setting as seen on the left, so that works nicely, and the daylight catchlight on the little black nobbly bit helps merge the two.

Sorry, must be having a dyslexic moment. I clearly meant the photo on the LEFT and the outside setting on the RIGHT.

:)

owen: I'm glad you spotted the catchlight. For some odd reason that's one of my favourite elements in this shot, probably, as you mention, because it ties the two sections together.

Dave....what wasn't obvious about it? ;-)

Although I have to say I have gone off you a bit mate as that bloody song hasn't left my head all evening!

All I can think is "I wish that bloody door wasn't in the shot so I could see more of the sea" :)

So no, I don't suppose it does anything for me. Next.....

This image makes me think of where it was taken and what it is showing. It is intriguing. I also like the apparent lack of exposure differetial between the sky and the sea. Did you use a grad filter?

great shot

She's got a strange shaped head, but not as strange as mine...

I think this is wonderful. About photographing "other people's art"--this is nonsense. You are making something new by showing it in a different way. If Walker Evans could make wonderful photographs of torn movie posters, so can you (and so can I). It occurs to me further that Eugene Atget also made some terrific pictures of advertizing posters on the Paris streets. No one is going to accuse Atget of being derivative.

I have been watching your work for about 6 months now and it is outstanding! It is the best photoblog i have ever seen!
I want to make a suggestion to people like shaun who has the first comment today: Your post is completely useless! I'd like to ask people to restrain themselves and not make this kind of comments. Why is it a race to be the first one to post?? Especially when you have nothing to say about the image!
About today's image: I don't really like it. I understand how hard it is to produce an outstanding image every day, but since this is the best photoblog out there, you have set our standards higher :)

I have to agree with the commenter who found this shot rather disturbing. Scared the bejesus out of me before I worked out what was going on.

Thanks everyone.

I don't care what a photo is OF. I care what response/process it triggers in ME. (which this one DEFINITELY does trigger a response/process)
If you made a photo of your photo of your photo of someone's photo of someone else's photo of someone else's photo of some poster, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest, as long as the photo you offered me did something in me that I found interesting. I think that photography (or any art) is completely dead in the water without the brilliance, magic, imagination particular to each individual viewer, mixed in with a certain primal willingness/availability to be directly emotionally/intellectually affected by the image.
Carry on debating about the "worthiness" of various approaches to the technical stuff...

Very interesting concept for an image.

I like it. Its a nice contrast between the two halves of the image. Maybe not the most stunning picture ever but for me it does work.

so cool! so R&B so full of soul! love the colors and the the sea turns into the the most logical scenary! congrats!

I agree w/ peter cohen's commentary (jan 8). couldn't have said it better ..and I love the image.

A hack that might work, is to add

use plugins::textile2;

along with the other "use" clauses at the top of lib/MT.pm. However, I have no MovableType experience - just regular Perl experience :)

cheers,
a months-long fan