The ModFab Gallery: Rare Birds Edition

Our first ModFab Gallery of 2006, and it's a doozy...the photos included this week are superb. This is really two weeks' worth of entrants (after the best-of-2005 last week), so I hope you'll indulge me and spend an extra minute or two.

Featured PhotoBlog:
Rare Birds / Kentile

Mark Wickens of Rare Birds strikes me as a photographer interested in perspective -- not the technical term per se, but in the esoteric process of translating a personal viewpoint into subtle commentary buried in art. Photos of nature, of architecture, of people or animals...every one of Wickens' shots not only captures the subject, but quietly comments on that subject's behavior, whether a desolate building or a curious man amorously puckering into a camera. Rare Birds, more than anything, exhibits a striking sense of what makes the world go round.

CameraEye: Subway X-Ray
Photo+Addiction: Dangerous Training Session
ThePhotoKid: Darkness and Singer
Life Inchoate: Unchanged
Monochrome VX400: Faces
Whateverland: Window Seat
Gorin-Images: Self-Portrait
While Seated: Temple at Bagan
PhotoFlavor: Chevy
Your Waitress: Towards The Light
Canned Environments: Resting
Ephemera: The Host with the Most
Shutterblade: Atomic Clock
Standard Issue: Pope J. Pope
No Traces: Fresh Cut
Joe's NYC: Brooklyn Bridge
Casey Niederhauser: Approaching
Phototext: Green
Chromasia: Old Broom
Never Happen: Chain Link Train
Diopter: An Image Says More...
Shahin Edalati: Take This Path
Lumilux: 9943
IPlog: Window Shopping

To vote for Best In Show, e-mail the name of your favorite photo listed above at modern.fabulousity@gmail.com, or leave your pick in the comments below. The winner will be announced in next week's edition. Enjoy!

Former Galleries: 12.31.05 / 12.17.05 / 12.10.05 / 12.4.05 / 11.26.05 / 11.19.05 / 11.12.05 / 11.4.05 / 10.29.05 / 10.17.05 / 10.2.05

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