Wednesday, August 25, 2010

At the Entrance to Plato's Cave

In or out? What a quandary.



Photo by John Sandel

38 comments:

  1. Love this. Is this your family portrait?

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  2. I'd kill for a shot like this! Just adore adore adore it. Oh well done, Petrea!

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  3. Absolutely enchanting!! I love it!!!
    Brilliant!

    (Although I didn't especially love trying to learn what Plato meant way back in Philosophy 101.)

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  4. I love this too.
    Well seen and well done!:)

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  5. That's pretty wonderful, Petrea, J and Boz. Boz handles the stilts very well.

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  6. This is a stunningly beautiful shot! Perfection -- I LOVE it!

    This should be on a wall to be enjoyed often.

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  7. Love the portrait, nice imagination.

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  8. Fabulous family photo! Most wonderful use of shadows I've ever seen.

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  9. This is simply amazing! But I'm mystified - if John took the photo, who's the man? A platonic friend? (groan...)

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  10. I can't stop staring at this photo. Just wonderful in every way.

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  11. This is really, really good. The lighting and focus is perfect. What a clever touch. Well done John.

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  12. John will be pleased by these comments. Family portrait? I guess so. We get these long shadows late in the day, and John has a brilliant eye.

    Sorry, Dina, it seemed better to link you than try to explain--especially to those who had already taken Philosophy 101 (which I hadn't).

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  13. That's me in my idealized form. Petrea needs no improvement.

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  14. I like the way that piece of grass didn't fall into shadow making what appears to be a collar for Boz.

    Please excuse me for choosing not to walk into the Wikidiki labyrinth

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  15. This feels like an ancient image to me: Man, Woman, Dog. Simple and beautiful. Amazing!

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  16. Whoa! Who knew bell-bottoms were back in style?!

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  17. Super duper! Reminds me of the book jacket for Hammet's The Thin Man.

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  18. I'll tell John to check in again. These are lovely comments, bell bottoms and all. Thank you, everyone.

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  19. You do know how terrific this shot is don't you??? What can I add to the accolades but HOT DAMN THAT"S GOOD, SISTAH!!! And uh,,,,John you have one helluva eye as well. And uh......HEY BOZERINO!
    V

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  20. Hmmm, late night radio talks about you Shadow People...

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  21. I guess if there were good food on the plato, there would not have been a quandary about the cave.

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  22. It's what you'd see if we got scanned at the Flintstones' airport—Bedrock International …

    … or maybe all that's left of a trio of postnuclear geologists …

    … but probably it's just what our kas do when we're sitting at home, in the AC: take Shadow Pooch for a skulk.

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  23. Greg, you've been listening to Art Bell.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

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  24. I'm mesmerized by this.

    Anthropologically, it could have been taken two million years ago.

    And as a portrait, it couldn't be making a stronger statement than it does.

    Good job, John!

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  25. Thank you, Unseen and Kevin.

    John doesn't check in here as often as I do so I'll let him know you said so. I love the picture, too. We need to start printing and framing around here.

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  26. Beautiful capture. I have tried several photos like this and not successfully I must say. I like this one alot.

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  27. hey, I mesmerized -K-! That's good, right?

    Should we tell people we were stoned at the time?

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  28. Greg rocks.

    (wv: croplatr … sounds like a website for lazy shutterbugs.)

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  29. ...or Marc Antony calling to his lover after a little too much wine.

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  30. Heh.

    (Um, is it just me, or are we alone in here? Everybody else seems to have moved on to your next post … it's just all echoey and abandoned …)

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