Impressive capture Tara. You caught the mood perfectly

Splendid portrait where I feel nevertheless a certain despair.Bravo Tara

You really do get the feeling that he does not belong. Outstanding capture made more so because of a similar image I posted three years ago called "Between Worlds". http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2207096&np

Wow ... the similarities are striking!!

This is an amazing capture. I know you like looking for the patterns in stuff, shapes and such. Which is all good, but if you can capture moments like this... holy cow this is good. Seriously, this could be your best photo ever. People make perfect subjects if you have that talent to find the right moment. Yea, this is good!

I love the DOF effect here - he's mostly dark & in perfect focus, while the background, though blurred, is very bright & manages to convey a lot of detail. In a sense, we all inhabit different worlds, because we each bring our own unique experience & particular perspective to the party. This photo conveys that reality very vividly for me...

The mood is captured magnificently but you fooled me - I thought it was a young lady!!

You may be right! I just made an assumption for the sake of convenience ...

Male or female, the demeanour suggests as you say being so used to what is going on as to take it all for granted, or and is most probably the case with young people today, is that he/she may be stoned beyond normal human behaviour. also is it me or are the sexes swapping around? I see more men that look like women and vice versa than ever before. But all this waffling aside, this is a great street capture, and your decision to go mono was a good one Tara.

This is a gorgeous photo, and the human is amazingly precise: not entirely separate from the environment, but not entirely within it either, as s/he's distinct and very clearly delineated. It's funny, I can't tell if this is male or female, but I'm leaning towards female, as the shape of the hair seems to go towards the female end of the spectrum, but ultimately, it doesn't matter. What I find most striking is the way that this person reminds me of the experience of being in Prague, or anywhere in the Czech Republic, where everything has this authentic Medieval quality and eye-popping beauty, but for Czechs, it's just the everyday world. People go to gawk at castles and ornate buildings and clocks, and Czechs don't gawk at the castles, because that's just where the President has an office, the ornate buildings are just schools and post offices, insurance companies, and mundane things like that, and so you get pictures taken in the Czech Republic, and the Czech people are doing what this person is doing...just going about life, and that's the strongest part of this image. Everything here just points to normal life in terms of this person, and that's always an interesting thing to see, because it implies so many stories. The fact that it's monochrome really heightens the emotional aspects of this image too. This is making a trip into my favorites.

Brilliant! It is SO UNCOOL to appear happy or interested among certain sorts of yoof, maybe he is one of that tribe.

Preoccupied with his/her own world...this is youth indeed! Excellent capture!

This is a really fabulous shot, Tara. He/she looks a bit like it is not his town. Like he/she doesnt care about where he/she is. So well cought.

This is an excellent study. Great job!!

Superb capture Tara. God bless.

He really stands out against the background. Excellent capture, Tara!

I thought it was a woman as well, though it doesn't really matter here. You caught such a great feeling here; someone in his or her own world, passing by. Very moody shot!!

Excellent capture of this girl !

I have a feeling many of my comments today will be of your human photography; and while I've shared my feelings privately, I wanted to share some in your actual gallery. (It's more "stamped" that way, in public so to speak, even though your other fans have moved on by now.) I'm glad you're asking for zoom more often...I always zoom, but I hope others do as well, because all your applicable work is that much better in full view. ("Applicable" meaning any image that's larger than the display view...) Your blacks are wonderfully deep and rich here, which makes a deep tapestry of a shot. Esp because the front character (male or female) is awash in rich blacks and deep grays---that helps us pull forth the blacks in the background. And you have such stark whites by contrast: A wonderful use of black and white to emphasize the presence of the main person and of all the people behind him/her. Also, his/her placement in the first THIRD of the shot---rather than in the center, as some photographers would do (the temptation to 'center' is big)---is a fine choice: Because it allows the background to sing to us more. (Centering the person puts a lot of emphasis on the person, with less on background.) The longitudinal crop is just right: It asks us to feel the line of people and bench that lead into the star. It focuses us more, intensifies the shot. One of your best street shots: I've seen it, now, several times, and it's as fresh and rich today as it was the first time I saw it. Those who didn't zoom---about half, from what I see---don't know what they missed. Love what you did with stark blacks and whites. Street shot and art all at once.

You could have fooled me Tara. I thought it was a good looking young lady!