A Lizard Named Frank

[photo_hannah]

There's ALWAYS lizards in my room. And after almost two hours of trying to get a close up shot of one, I saw a lizard on my curtain and just thought it looked amazingly amazing. Comments?

[windrider86]

We do like to have you put a little bit of thought/work into your post. Try asking something more specific (as outlined in the guidelines/rules) Look at your photo and ask yourself what you like or dont like. Put that down for us, gives us something to go on and how to help you better.
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[chicagojohn]

Originally Posted by photo_hannah

There's ALWAYS lizards in my room. And after almost two hours of trying to get a close up shot of one, I saw a lizard on my curtain and just thought it looked amazingly amazing. Comments?

Frankly, photo_hannah, after first reading your introduction and then seeing the image you posted, I cannot help but agree that it is amazingly amazing: Not just simply amazing, but amazingly amazing. And this despite the absence of EXIF data and your rather general request for comments, which I took to be regarding your thought that it was, indeed, amazingly amazing.

I will refer, once again, to one of the books that keeps coming back to me, almost like a bible, despite the fact that it is but one book written by one man; Ludwig Wittgenstein; and that book, of course, is the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Near the end, Wittgenstein concludes this in the English translation: "6.44 It is not how things are in the world that is the mystical, but that it exists." And then again, near the beginning, he says, "2.1511 That is now a picture is attached to reality; It reaches right out to us."

It is precisely in that sense that I agree your image is amazingly amazing. That is to say, although I love the sharpness of the weave of the fabric contrasted with the diffuse shadow of the lizard, and the black and white format, and the angular rounded form of the lizard shadow against the straight lines of the fabric, and the rule-of-thirds placement of the "behind the curtains" subject (literally), and the nice angle of the lizard's tail; although I love all of that and more about your image, stuff that makes it amazing, perhaps, what makes it amazingly amazing to me is how it reaches right out to me in this way: It exists here in this forum; That is the amazingly amazing part, along, of course, with the fact that this very form exists, and so on, leading our minds to the realization that Heidegger had in Introduction to Metaphysics, when he said the fundamental question there is, "Why are there essents, rather than nothing?"

So yes, I agree with you, photo_hannah; amazingly amazing.