no photo... again :(

i guess i'm too fast :P hehe

ps: there's no peace for the wicked ;-) Ok, so I forgot to upload it ... again ;-) It's there now :-)

This is a creepy image. It is definitely an interesting composition with strange juxtapositons and interesting shadows, but I liked yesterdays image more than this one.

I actually like this one the most as well. Beautiful exposure. Poignant image. Good stuff.

This is also my favourite of the 3 photos. I like the duality created by the innocence of the baby object against the pointy metal fence (?). Great colors and composition.

Hope you get well soon. :-)

This kind of shot, by showing opposite things, crosses their attributes : malefic innocence and ingenuity of evil.

looks great actually - i like the composition in here especially the color brownn that contrasting yellow !!

I think that the hdr-picture was the best of the three, but the composition, the colours and the sharpness in this one makes it as good as, if not better than the first in the series.

With my first, I would consider that binky a "lost for good." After a few more kids, and you watch them eat everything imaginable, this looks just fine to use again! Great shot!

Hi Dave, I came across your site a few days ago, and ever since then I've been captivated with your images - I just keep clicking on the photo's to keep going back further and further, must have viewed a couple of hundred now!

Of the three, I think the first image of the Adidas shoe looked the most polished, as if it could be used in an advertising campaign. But today's me me laugh for some reason (in a good way!).

I have to say that the best photo that I'd seen so far looking back through your archive was the one of Rhowan posing near the pier at Blackpool (the b&w one, where she looks right out of the 40's with her gloved hand held palm up against her chin).

I was deliberating whether to get myself a digital SLR (going from a compact), but having viewed your blog and DurhamTownship blog, I'm now completely convinced and getting a Canon 30d off Ebay. I hope one day to become even half as accomplished as you.

All the best and looking forward to your continued photo postings,

Jonathan

Erm...."This is the second of three 'lost and found' shots and is probably my favourite of the three"

"Ok, here's the last of the three 'lost and found' items. My guess is that you probably wont be as keen on this one as the previous two, but in some ways at least, it's probably my favourite"

Come on man...make up your mind! Are they both your favourite? It's ok if they are. Personally I thought the trainer did nothing for me whatsoever, the boot had more of an immediate impact visually but this one blows both of them out of the water for depth..

..and there I was making a concerted effort to not come across all 'artisty' ;-)

Hi djn

Love today's shot, superb.

Please could you wish Ben Archer a happy birthday today - he's an avid fan of yours and looks at Chromasia every day.

Many Thanks

Oh and btw Dave, while I'm in an argumentative mode, I think you set this up...I think you did it well...but I still think you set it up ;-)

I really like the color scheme.

Definitely the most evocative shot of this set. It has a pretty different emotional impact than most of your photography, but I really like it.

Both the second and the third have a good use of color to convey a mood, however I think I like this one better because there is more for my eye to look at with the shadows, the textures, etc. Good job, though!

This one is definately the strongest of the three. An abandoned shoe seems almost predictable but this is much more powerful. And Jenny is right, the textures here are wonderful.

what a strange combination!
the rustic element is gorgeous.
the pacifier in that environment is disturbing.
i cant decide whether i like it or not.

Now that is an interesting use of shadows, I did not find it distrubing as some of the other comments did. That is not to say I "liked" it as much as say yesterdays boot though. Definitely in your style.

Believe it or not, this is one of my favorite of your images. The tones you achieve in your post processing continue to both amaze and inspire me. I really like everything about this image, as it has a unique composition and subject. But oh those tones you get!

lovely composition and contrast between subject and background

The desire to pick it up and wash it off before the baby gets to it is overwhelming...

I like this photo, except for the shadow down the left side. Almost looks like the photo was cut wrong. Otherwise I think it's great.

Great shot! Very forbidding. Very uncomfortable. Some rotting infection or worse obviously lies waiting any toddler unwise enough to pick it up.

For the kid that lost it: smart kid. I would have left it there, too.

Stupendous isolation! The textures are great as well.

This is far and away my favourite too, the shadows are great as is your use of colour.

I have been watching your site for about 4 months. My husband's family is from Blackpool/Clevelys so your local shots are particularly interesting. I am an amateur photographer (C&G in B&W) who's just converted to digital and love it! AND I love your site.

I cant say that i can comment technically like some of your regular guests, but your ideas give me inspiration to play around in photoshop (though I need more tuition on that too).

Keep up the truly inspiring work!!

Beautiful...I like the color and the way the shadows fall.

nice

All three of these "lost" photos are strong but this one grabbed my heart and caused a gasp and a whispered "oh my gawd". So much emotional content and visual interest.

Another great image. What I find particularly interesting are all the sets of competing parallel grids layered over one another. Very interesting. For me, it creates depth and movement in the image. Love the way the single wire is hooked through.

Very nice! I think this is the strongest in the series. I love the lighting and the rusted wire fencing to the side both adds texture and shape due to it's strong lines. Very nice!

I hate seeing childrens lost things. Its sad in a way. Nice shot.

I'm sure that your waiting images are probably better than your making out!

This is also my favourite. Theres just something about the two contrasts (soft child object and hard industrial fence).
Amuzing the way its positioned too ;)

It has a great look to it (high saturation and contrast), the colours are great too:)

definitely poignant. the contrast between the two items here is intense, even menacing. that poor little pacifier . . .

nice shot ;)

I'm so jealous of the fact that your pictures are beautiful AND the fact that you have a big enough archive to keep it going daily. Hope you feel better

The best of the three.

As a dad, this image moves me. For I know that one day a family was loading up to leave the beach and the mother said, 'Honey, have you seen the baby's pacifier.' The dad gets a sinking feeling in his stomach, relpies, 'er..no I haven't.' The baby is getting fussy and the other children could care less about the pacifier as the dad begins to search frantically for it. The baby is now starting to cry, the kids don't want to leave and his wife is getting more and more irratated. Unbeknownst to him, the dad has stepped on the missing binki and driven it deep into the sand, only to have it wash up months later and appear in chromasia.com. I love the beach. Great image.

Thanks everyone.

I like the subject matter of this photo more than the other two in the series. While it's not the most technically impressive photography in the series, in my opinion, it's the best.

Ok......maybe the flu meds (~ahems, totally obviously, in his direction as the "Typhoid Mary" of academia) are making me overly wistful and sensitive to life's poignancies...but this image was necessary to complete the series.

The first two images narrate a story that is poignant and allegorical enough in itself. Such joyous energy attached to the purchase of that footwear. I can almost visualise the smile on the faces of the buyers as they tugged the laces, anchored the shoes into place and gazed in satisfaction at their potential purchases. Desired objects....sub-culture consumeristic icons...craved for, possibly saved for....yet carelessly overlooked ("lost") or deliberately discarded. The drive to accrue and experience "something else" obscuring the memory of why they wanted in the first place and the motivation to hold onto them. They are the sad, old, uncared-for, raggedy-doll remnants of transient moments of taste. No longer precious.

But the child's dummy tells a different and far more passionate tale. It was truly lost....mislaid......a " moment of unfortuante events" allowed it to be wrenched forever from the baby's devoted affection, secure need.... and clutches. It was loved. And the rusted grate of metal, eternally "utilitarian" , never to be treasured as anything but a functional object, recognises this and loops its arm to the dummy. Initially, a moment of supreme altruism......to console and protect. Yet it basks in the resonant traces of love and attention that the dummy exudes....and it grows in stature and substance, as such.

Each was "Lost and Found".

Now that's "passion".

excellent find

Great catch!!