Purpose

Ongoing CHALLENGE !!!

If your picture has been blogged here, it means that it has appealed to over 300 art jurors (currently 50 active) for a whole week or more. That is an achievement!!!

... and what does that mean ??? well according to This ... it means your picture is "... extremely resistant to people wanting to get rid of it", :)

If you see one single picture in this group that you think is not art, please say so (by commenting on it) and tell us why. If you are convincing - we will remove it. This group is to show case the most resistive pictures from the
B&W Art Photography - Is Your Art universal

2007/12/29

Still I look to find a reason to believe

Picture of the week

Still I look to find a reason to believe

(Tim Hardin)

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live without
somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
never think about myself

If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way just to leave the past behind
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live without
somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
never think about myself



Originally uploaded by nouredine

2007/12/24

Milena's Secret Fantasy


Milena's Secret Fantasy
Originally uploaded by Sol Lang
Milena's Secret Fantasy

All, we men, can do is look in awe and wish we could be privy to the fantasy. To understand that which can create such excitement in a woman. It is an age-old secret that only few have had the pleasure to enjoy. The secret that is unexplainable in words. "Love" comes close and yet just doesn't quite do it. Her freedom to be vulnerable. The total comfort to let herself go without inhibition and in complete safety. To feel as if she is one with her surroundings. To let the moment of ecstasy transport her. A short journey it may be, yet as far away from earth as the farthest star. And then the calm after the fury. Soft silence comes upon her and all who are privy to observe in awe.

2007/12/21

Organillero


Organillero
Originally uploaded by gotto78
Organillero

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El Organillero, tradición que se resiste a morir
(Leo Mendoza)

Son una especie en extinción. En el siglo pasado recorrían las calles lanzando al aire sus melodías algo tristes y melancólicas pero llenas de tradición. Las dueñas de casa salían a la puerta a escucharlos, mientras los niños correteaban a su alrededor. Después, con unas monedas recibidas se daban por pagados y continuaban su peregrinar urbano.

Este joven adolescente, con tenida moderna y postura más irreverente, ha continuado la tradición de su padre o tal vez de su abuelo. Algún dia ese hermoso aparato musical dejará de sonar y así desaparecerá una tradición más de nuestra tierra.

Al menos, aún tenemos la oportunidad de escuchar, de vez en cuando, esas nostálgicas melodías que parecen transportarnos a un mundo mágico,evocador y más amable que contrasta con la vorágine impersonal de la vida moderna.

The Last Supper (Film)


The Last Supper (Film)
Originally uploaded by alex.dorand
The Last Supper (Film)

Ilford HP5 Plus + Nikon F3 + 50mm lens

One of my friend's birthday party at an Italian restaurant, Marchello's.

The food was great. I am happy with the photos as well.

the headlines from bangkok


the headlines from bangkok
Originally uploaded by -rt-
the headlines from bangkok

Explore.324 160607.
Taken on an open-top bus in Bangkok. A lot of men were off to be novice monks in celebration of one of the King's anniversaries. I jumped on the bus and waited for light to stream in from a side-street ... then tilt.

2007/12/18

Girls waiting to see the Sultan of Brunei.

Girls waiting to see the Sultan of Brunei.

School girls anticipating the arrival of the Sultan of Brunei during celebrations for his birthday.

Taken with a Rolleicord V on BW400CN.

2007/12/13

AND THE LIFE GOES ON


AND THE LIFE GOES ON
Originally uploaded by msokal
The man exits the church.
Itajaí City,Santa Catarina,Brasil.

Marino. A later dandy


Marino. A later dandy
Originally uploaded by e n i k ő
Marino. A later dandy

Charles Baudelaire, in the later, "metaphysical" phase of dandyism defined the dandy as one who elevates aesthetics to a living religion, that the dandy's mere existence reproaches the responsible citizen of the middle class: "Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism" and "These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking ....

2007/12/12

| tribute to maurice béjart |


| tribute to maurice béjart |
Originally uploaded by kmye
Famous and great choreographer Maurice Béjart rejoined the stars last wednesday...
Remind you, between so many others ballets, his Boléro or his Tango or his Sacre du Printemps or Rumi...

2007/12/11

Dancer


Dancer
Originally uploaded by locarbhiflavor
Dancer

An assignment completed for my black and white fine art photography class at UM, circa 1990.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK , 07 DEC 07

EE3V4158_RT16 Christelle a casa (EOS-bw-p)

EE3V4158_RT16 Christelle a casa (EOS-bw-p)

Illustrazione dell'impossibilità del nudo femminile in fotografia. An Hommage to Weston to argue for the impossibility of photographing a nude woman.

2007/12/07

San Frediano


San Frediano
Originally uploaded by a bout de souffle
San Frediano

I will soon go out.
Tomorrow, if it
comes, could be
somewhat
better…

2007/12/05

a emoção acabou.


a emoção acabou.
Originally uploaded by Bruna.Lacerda
a emoção acabou.

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Cosplay profile


Cosplay profile
Originally uploaded by manganite
Cosplay profile

One of the cosplayers in Harajuku. I don't know which certain figure he is playing, but does it matter? He looks terrific!

See also my latest photos

You can see it also here: www.ipernity.com/doc/manganite/127595

2007/12/03

Looking for a Name


Looking for a Name
Originally uploaded by Tom Q
Looking for a Name

Vietnam War Memorial, Washington DC

This is a photo of a student is on the shoulders of a mentor/teacher so he can get a charcoal rubbing of one of the 58,000 names on the wall of the memorial.