Thanks, Pete, and happy new year.

That's great, John ! Wish you a happy and healthy New Year !

Thanks, Ulrich, and the same to you.

Looks like a tennis ball that a retriever found and carried around!
Happy New Year, too!

Thanks, Bob, and the same to you.

Great still-life study. All the best for 2019, Joe

Thanks, Joe, and the same to you.

Awesome shot!

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Thanks, William, and the same to you.

I like the way it looks insect-like and delicate in form and colour. I always enjoy the way the camera can frame something discarded, disregarded and make something new. It refreshes the eye and the mind. Seeing better is feeling better; some connection there, I think.

That is something that has always appealed to me about photography. I took up photography ten years ago and it has profoundly affected how I engage with the world around me, and how I interpret it.

This is just delightful! Some doggie put it there just for you, with a little grass attached for decoration. An early Epiphany present :-)
I didn't realize you've only been doing photography for ten years. Your style seemed so mature when I first discovered your work, and that has been some years now.

Thank you very much, Sarah. Someone -- whose name I have of course I didn't write down and have of course forgotten -- noted in an article that leading-edge baby boomers like me grew up in an era in which they were surrounded by great photography -- in Life, Look, all over the place. So maybe old-fashioned is a better term than mature.

I hasten to add that I'm not using old-fashioned here in any negative way. I have been amused by art critics' attempts to explain the appeal of Vivian Maier's photos. They usually end up talking about some mysterious connection she has with the common people. It seems to me her photographs simply demonstrate technical skills and aesthetic appreciation that have been downplayed in the art market over the ensuing years, in fvour of supposed concepts. And compositional skill -- many of her photographs are impeccably composed although they must have been taken with very little opportunity to frame her shot.

Or so I think, anyway. I have learned my thinking has a distressing tendency to be, um, aberrant.

What Sarah said. :-) Happy New Year, John.

Happy New Year!