由我一张照片引出的评论。德国人说他英语不好。我从“Often there were…”以下就开始看不懂了，应该和他的英文不好没有关系。谁给我翻一翻（和具体的照片并没有关系）。

You are following an intensely line with your series, z-eye-z (palindrome, the eye is centered and the e’s look like eyes)

Since I have an account at flickr, following your photo stream.

I can’t understand why you don’t get more comments. My english isn’t good and it takes me time for translation from German to English, but if English were my native language, I would comment on so many images.

My little try:
The individual stands in the foreground. The person in the midst of urbanity, mostly lonely and in unrelatedness. I feel this loneliness in your pictures. Nevertheless, they seem to me as if their loneliness is self-imposed. A totally another form of so-called “Street Photography”. Often there were people shown in their misery. Surely I would debate with one or the other flickr member or generally, whether this misery which I often perceive on the limit of romanticization, so might exhibit.

I like your way, how you show what you perceive – without any sensation.

Thank you for sharing your photography with us.

- mynona

拖了几天，我不得不回了。几句话，花了多少时间啊。笑是不道德的。

I won’t be surprised, maybe somewhat disappointed, if people talk about my photos with loneliness. I was surprised with your phrases about that loneliness, which was so close to the view I got from my photos as a viewer. They’re alone for sure. Lonely? I, as photographer, don’t know. BTW, I never dreamed of capturing a lonely one showing up his misery in the streets. (and of talking in English fluently)

有谁知道我用英语在说什么吗？

Yes, Unabridged [name of the commenter], have to admit It’s an abashment (to bypass which I don’t try to catch something fleeting any more. I’ve been gazing at something seemingly timeless instead lately.)

Fortunately I didn’t throw it away, but felt it as a good picture in my drowsy glimpses at times. All the photographica, the knowledge of technique and the photography history, and the pride couldn’t seem to bother me when I was semiconscious.

Response to someone’s
comment on one of my photos in Flickr

英语，这种我三年了还不能用它来吃饭买东西的语言，有时觉得它真的不错。Photographica，多好的词，中文里从前没有，现在居然也还没有；只有一大堆外延：西藏、长城、烟囱、Frank、拆迁、皱纹、对比、影子、锈门、孤独、冲击、颗粒、想法、态度、穷人、底层，想到再说。

The 60s and 70s was a time of great openness, when photography was still fairly innocent and pure, without the ambitions of today’s Art market driving the action.

- Joel Meyerowitz
From the flyer for the exhibition
Recent Acquisitons: New York Street Photography
held in The New York Public Library