Anna Kucera has been capturing them at gigs, at play and even the odd moment of quiet contemplation.
Yet I've seen many a collier stand in his back garden looking down at a flower with that odd, remote sort of contemplation which shows a real awareness of the presence of beauty.
"The symbols might seem a little macabre to us but one of the basic principals of the Freemasons and the Odd Fellows is a contemplation of mortality, which goes back to the Middle Ages.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
For this is a fluid contemplation of a man's odd experiences in two worlds, one the world of the living and the other the world of his fantasies which, in this particular instance, happens to be the great beyond.
Young Shandling was handsome and odd, telegenic and intriguing, with a crown of fluffy hair, eyes that squinted in contemplation and bemusement, and rather puffy lips.
It moved from contemplation to apocalyptic distortion to a sparse pianissimo before the song itself emerged, with all its odd, plaintive leaps.
Burn teases out the odd, and often unnoticed, links between news stories, which languish ignored while feverish speculation obscures rational analysis and contemplation.
It's an odd conjunction, and yet this beautifully cast house, with its shadowy, shoulder-high alleys, narrow stairs, shrine for contemplation, sleeping platforms and internal courtyard wrapped around a plaster-cast tree, is at home amid the V&A's haunting Victorian reproductions of Renaissance marvels.
It is an odd sight: Nature penned in amid a forest of brick and stone; and the innocent stranger might be tempted to pass through the black-barred gate, to spend a quiet hour in contemplation of such a wonder.
