In an airport...

bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited October 1, 2009 in Street and Documentary
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2009
    Very nice, BD. I'd like some of whatever you and Damon have been drinking or smoking, please.
    If not now, when?
  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2009
    I f*&%$ng LOVE this shot. Niiiiice. One of those moments.
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2009
    damonff wrote:
    I f*&%$ng LOVE this shot. Niiiiice. One of those moments.

    Thanks, Damon!rolleyes1.gif
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  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    I'm grooving on the composition, but having a hard time figuring out what it's saying to me.
  • alexfalexf Registered Users Posts: 436 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    Very nice. Good shot indeed.
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    michswiss wrote:
    I'm grooving on the composition, but having a hard time figuring out what it's saying to me.

    I'm going to hazard a guess that it's the juxtaposition of older person in wheelchair, restricted in movement and possibly isolated (as there's no companion), with motion something in the past vs young child in stroller, with somebody to push them around and with an entire lifetime of moblity ahead of them still to come.

    Or am I over-reading?
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  • Mr. QuietMr. Quiet Registered Users Posts: 1,047 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    I think the secondary subject is the mother with the baby in the....baby..........strollerrolleyes1.gif I have been studying the primary subject, and a few things really through me off.

    First, that scarf is silk with flowers of some kind or feminine design on it. Secondly, the purse. I think it is a purse by the thinness of the strap and shape. Thirdly, something about the way the hand is holding the purse is bugging me....Lastly, the hat and glasses point in a totaly different direction. As you can see, I am very confusedheadscratch.gif

    Now back to the point of this picture. To me, it seems that B.D. is comparing two worlds. The one world with the young baby girl/boy in the stroller, and the old person(sorry) in the wheelchair. I think if the baby was looking at the old person, it would say soooo much more.

    So B.D., please help me out here....
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  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    Fantastic shot, B.D. The composition is particularly strong with this one.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    thoth wrote:
    Fantastic shot, B.D. The composition is particularly strong with this one.

    Thanks very much. As to the various analysis:
    You are all correct. rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif Because whatever you see in the image is...what's in the image you see. rolleyes1.gif

    No, I am not pulling legs here; I'm dead serious. I saw what I saw, and now you're seeing what I saw and trying to decide what you see - which is what should happen with any - forgive me, pleasebowdown.gif - work of art. However...Remember my little "no caption challenge?" Well, suppose I had put a title on this...
    "Grandma watches her grandchildren" or "Sad old lady" or "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me" or "Abandoned Old Lady" or "Waiting to Board" or "Chaos" or...."Composition No. 17"

    Each of those titles would make you think the photo was about something else, and judge it by the words in the caption. So I'd rather let you decide what it does or doesn't say to you. :D

    AND BY THE WAY ---- ISN'T ANYONE GOING TO ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE/EXERCISE I POSTED YESTERDAY. I see that quite a few of you have read it, but no one has yet said "I'm in."eek7.gif
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  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    I'm in. I have to go read it now.
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    damonff wrote:
    I'm in. I have to go read it now.

    Good man! I can not wait to see what you do with this assignment!clap.gifclap.gif
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    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

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  • WinemanWineman Registered Users Posts: 204 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    An EXCELENTE image BD, love the conversion to B&W! very well done!!!

    Thanks for sharing!!!

    Z.
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  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    Is it converted? It looks like film to me. The scratch in the upper right, right?
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    damonff wrote:
    Is it converted? It looks like film to me. The scratch in the upper right, right?

    It was indeed shot on film. Tri-X - 800. Good call.clap.gif
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    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

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  • Mr. QuietMr. Quiet Registered Users Posts: 1,047 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2009
    So I was right, it an old lady and not an old man!

    What assignment, and where is it located?
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  • WinemanWineman Registered Users Posts: 204 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2009
    bdcolen wrote:
    It was indeed shot on film. Tri-X - 800. Good call.clap.gif


    Damn, i was hopping it was converted and you could teach us how you did it!

    Either way, its a great shoot!!! congrats!

    Z.
    I do not suffer insanity... I enjoy it!!!
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2009
    Mr. Quiet wrote:
    So I was right, it an old lady and not an old man!

    What assignment, and where is it located?

    No assignment. And in an airport. As I said, Mr. Q, it is what ever you want it to be. mwink.gif
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    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
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