Thank You

I'm not complaining—I have the world's best job, or second-best as I now conceive it—but sometimes the relentless pace of blogging, and more especially trying to remain mentally nimble enough to keep all the plates spinning at once, can get a Dawg downpressed*. Floating in the sea of all that, to suddenly get to see 300+ "It Must Be Color" submissions from so many wonderful people is just a treat. I really enjoyed it. I can only use 13, but it was a true pleasure seeing every one of them, and hearing from so many readers.

Photo by Rory O'Toole, who does weddings out of Cork, Ireland

This didn't make the final 13 (I suspect it would work nicely in B&W too), but isn't it a treat to get to see it? Multiply by 300 and you see what I mean. Many thanks, sincerely. These Baker's Dozen things just lift my spirits and make my day, day after day.

Mike

*Word courtesy of Peter Tosh.

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Richard Man: "Excellent photo! The use of space is exquisite!"

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[Ben Rosengart]

That's an adjective.

[Dan Gorman]

I like Rory's picture a lot. Reminds me of this one: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1976.645.1/

I liked the image so much I bought the Met exhibition poster many years ago and had it framed. I still enjoy looking at it every day.

I really liked John Crowley's picture yesterday as well - thanks for sharing these, Mike!

Cheers,
Dan

[Rory O'Toole]

Wow, wasn't expecting to see my photo on my favourite blog today. Thanks Mike

[KeithB]

looks like a scene from "Dunkirk."

[scott kirkpatrick]

Please keep the honorable mention postings coming along during the week or more you need for your final selection and writeup...

[Stephen Scharf]

Hi Mike,
I think I can speak for all of the contributors that we're happy to help out, and look forward to seeing the "Big 13".

I wonder if it might be possible to create a "TOP Gallery" where the submissions for all the Baker's Dozen projects could be placed for viewing by the TOP community. It'd be nice to see work like Rory's that didn't "make the cut".

I think your next category should be "Sports". Cheers!

Regards,
Stephen

[Jeff]

That’s a lovely picture by Rory O’Toole. But one could argue that it MUST be color. I think an excellent b/w printer could produce a beautiful, albeit different, photo.

[Clayton]

Even if you can only show a width of 800 pixels, a link could be offered so they can be seen larger elsewhere.

[Chris Kern]

Photo by Rory O'Toole, who does weddings out of Cork, Ireland

This didn't make the final 13 (I suspect it would work nicely in B&W too), but isn't it a treat to get to see it?

Robert Capa famously said, ‟if your photos aren't good enough, you're not close enough.” Not bad advice (especially, I suppose, if you’re shooting shootin’ wars), but this is a fine counter-example. I’d like to think I would have thought of this composition, but . . .

[Dori]

Hello Mike, are all the related BD posts categorized as such? I didn't see the Leica or young photographer ones. I would also suggest numbering the resulting posts so your readers know how many there have been to go back to (e.g. BD#1, BD#2).

Thanks,
Dori

[Bill Tyler]

All right. You've got the second-best job. What's the best?

[Everybody's perfect job is specific to them, of course.... --Mike]

[David Dyer-Bennet]

I really like seeing the final posts, and the discussions that ensue. I know it takes a lot of your time, but it sounds like at least it's mostly fairly pleasant work.

[Ernie Van Veen]

Here's a thought; a TOP photo book of a selection of a hundred or so of the 'must be colour' images. Half of the after-costs/tax profits goes to TOP and half to the photographers (unless they elect to give their share to TOP).

[subroto mukerji]

If Rory's stunning picture didn't make the cut (for whatever reasons), I'm beginning to lick my chops in anticipation of seeing your final Baker's Dozen selection. BTW, I see an excellent suggestion or two about a gallery linkage, hope you'll manage to do something along those lines.

[Speed]

O, God Thy Sea Is So Great And My Boat Is So Small

Darwin on small vessels ...

My objection to the vessel is its smallness, which cramps one so for room for packing my own body & all my cases &c &c. — As to its safety I hope the Admiralty are the best judges; to a landsmans eye she looks very small.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2009/07/26/o-god-thy-sea-is-so-great-and-my-boat-is-so-small/

And so it is with photographs. A small one can take us very far.