In the end, here are the entries that best fit what I was looking for:
Honorable mentions (in no particular order):
![](https://pbase.com/image/81018788/medium.jpg)
![](https://pbase.com/image/103304766/medium.jpg)
![](https://pbase.com/image/140244385/medium.jpg)
![](https://pbase.com/image/166918371/medium.jpg)
![](https://pbase.com/image/171818347/medium.jpg)
In third place is Szczepan with the very moody, isolated vision of an artist lost in their own world:
![](https://pbase.com/image/160044639/medium.jpg)
For second place, I chose Arnie's image that suggests the innocent onset of someone's artistic journey:
![](https://pbase.com/image/138942120/medium.jpg)
Above all others, I loved the lighting and mood of Walter's image of this apparently experienced, comfortable gentleman very much at home in his element... creating.
![](https://pbase.com/image/167714580/medium.jpg)
Congrats, Walter. Show & Tell #605 is yours.