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>>>> Street Photography eXchange #24 <<<
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albobkin
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albobkin
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Nice environmental shots.
There can be an interesting series.., keep going, please
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solveproblems
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Just I failed. They noticed me and discussed.
Aha...thank you for clarifying the mystery.
When I shot this one I was, actually, practicing shooting from the hip. As he told me about what he is doing with hurricane victims in this area, I was surreptitiously pressing the shutter button and hoping for the best. Whether this was a good idea or not is debatable, of course. What interested me was that I hadn't notice how expressive his face was until I looked at the pix. Perhaps because I was mindful of my camera. A lot to practice with this technique! You sort of have to split your mind into 2 parts....or more.
Sal
When I shot this one I was, actually, practicing shooting from the hip. As he told me about what he is doing with hurricane victims in this area, I was surreptitiously pressing the shutter button and hoping for the best. Whether this was a good idea or not is debatable, of course. What interested me was that I hadn't notice how expressive his face was until I looked at the pix. Perhaps because I was mindful of my camera. A lot to practice with this technique! You sort of have to split your mind into 2 parts....or more.
Sal
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Sal,
I hope Sandy treated you kindly. But you are on the coast, of course.
This is a very difficult technique to master. For example, the exit sign problem would have been obvious through the viewfinder. But if anyone has the discipline to make progress in this, it would be you.
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Thanks, Chris
My 95 year old aunt, who is preparing for an art show next June, and is a bit of an expert on art educaton, gave me a stern lecture yesterday.
The gist of it was that the combination of poetry and photography and high intelligence is so rare that I should make more use of my poetry, make it more extensive, and combine it with my photos.
I am a great believer in Jungian serendipidity (as a form of grace.) That you hit the same topic from a different perspective strikes me as significant. I will have to mull this over.
My 95 year old aunt, who is preparing for an art show next June, and is a bit of an expert on art educaton, gave me a stern lecture yesterday.
The gist of it was that the combination of poetry and photography and high intelligence is so rare that I should make more use of my poetry, make it more extensive, and combine it with my photos.
I am a great believer in Jungian serendipidity (as a form of grace.) That you hit the same topic from a different perspective strikes me as significant. I will have to mull this over.
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Thank you, Frank-
We were lucky - inconvenienced, only. We had to evacuate and expected the worst as Old Saybrook seemed to be so much in the news. In retrospect, I think that's because it's easy to access and has good restaurants reasonably priced.
Yes...the exit sign....if I had stood more to the left...One has to be so very aware, instantaneously aware. Alert.
Sal
We were lucky - inconvenienced, only. We had to evacuate and expected the worst as Old Saybrook seemed to be so much in the news. In retrospect, I think that's because it's easy to access and has good restaurants reasonably priced.
Yes...the exit sign....if I had stood more to the left...One has to be so very aware, instantaneously aware. Alert.
Sal
I was so glad to read this, Chris. I had been about to ask If my 'eye' was wrong in thinking exactly the same thing. I feel reassured.
BTW, I took a weeklong workshop with Sylvia Plachy at Maine Media Workshops this past summer. It was transforming. She is a self effacing, brilliant, openminded, wonderful woman. Her advice to me was to look for the ghosts, find the ghosts. Do you know her work?
Sal
BTW, I took a weeklong workshop with Sylvia Plachy at Maine Media Workshops this past summer. It was transforming. She is a self effacing, brilliant, openminded, wonderful woman. Her advice to me was to look for the ghosts, find the ghosts. Do you know her work?
Sal
To me, this is a truly memorable photo. Who hasn't walked past a situation that makes you feel tense? Everything about the girl shows hope that these boys will not notice her, not torment her, not snatch her doll. Way at the end of the sidewalk is a figure too distant to be of any help should trouble ensue. The street would be innocent but for the possible menace of 2 boys capable of mean mischief. Even the flutter of her dress speaks to that.She walks fast to get past possible trouble. Every woman in the world has walked in her shoes, and lots of men.
Sal
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There is so much emotional intelligence in what you say, Sal, and graphic intelligence in the other comments, that I have to question why my response to this shot is so much more tepid.
I think it's that, as a NYer, I find the boy's face above the Imperial Storm Troupers so bland and non-menacing. And he's holding a book.
In NYC, when I grew up, he's the kind of kid that might have his lunch money taken from him. And I've been looking at Wm Klein, who does menacing:
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That's a mighty fine imagination, but it's working overtime on that one. There are at least two adults just barely out of arms reach of the kids. There is nothing at all menacing about the two boys, and nothing about the girl suggests she feels otherwise. She is apparently walking, with no reservations, within about 2 feet of a couple boys that at least at that moment are showing no interest in her nor any aggression of any kind.
If the girl does have any "problem" it would be with the photographer blocking her way, and with whoever that is to the photog's left.
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because the background rarely provides a good organizing composition, people usually do not all face in a good direction and properly space themselves, and there is rarely a good organizing theme.
Here the arcade structure provides a good background, people are looking forward and the glasses provide a common activity.
My recent effort is below:
Outside the Trump Soho
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All photos shot in downtown Manhattan unless otherwise noted.
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Here the arcade structure provides a good background, people are looking forward and the glasses provide a common activity.
My recent effort is below:
albobkin wrote:
Outside the Trump Soho
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Zubu Barunda wrote:
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I guess I can't really complain in good conscience. The flood water came within 150ft, but we are on higher ground. We lost power and cell for two days. Then, we scored a tower suite in the Palace Hotel, and got to see NYC as tourists do. We also lost all the food we had been storing since the late Paleolithic, including our last mastodon burgers. It's so good to be home.
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