Everyone has a story.

MolsondogMolsondog Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
edited December 27, 2009 in Street and Documentary
Quiet

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  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited December 25, 2009
    First off, I'll complain about your title and get that out of the way. :D Everyone might have a story but I'm not sure why I need to be told that. Does it help this image? I don't think so. I would propose: "Woman on a Bench in the Snow." thumb.gif Of course, choose your own title but I wanted to demonstrate what I believe to be a good use of that space -- identification without description.

    As for the picture itself: I love it. I started to want a little less horizontal space but I like the emptiness that space provides. The composition exagerates her lonliness and adds some good tension. thumb.gif
    Travis
  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited December 25, 2009
    Molsondog wrote:
    Point taken and an excellent suggestion. Sorry, but no snow here. Just a dreary day and solitude. Glad you like the crop. I tried less horizontal but ended up with this for the reasons you mentioned.
    Ah, thanks for the correction. I could have sworn that was snow. :D
    Travis
  • Nikonic1Nikonic1 Registered Users Posts: 684 Major grins
    edited December 25, 2009
    thoth wrote:
    Ah, thanks for the correction. I could have sworn that was snow. :D

    That makes two of us eek7.gifhuh
    Matt :thumb
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  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited December 26, 2009
    Molsondog wrote:
    It's crushed rock in B&W.
    It could have been very convincing snow! :D
    Travis
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited December 26, 2009
    Nice composition, but too easy. I want to see more of they guy on the bench.
    If not now, when?
  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited December 26, 2009
    I thought I recognized the location!

    A beautiful, serene photograph and, yes, the crushed rock does look like snow. (Paris did get snow recently, didn't it? So it could have been.)

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  • thomasjmthomasjm Registered Users Posts: 66 Big grins
    edited December 26, 2009
    This is beautiful. And it is one of those photographs that is timeless and almost anyone can relate and insert their own story. Great shot.
  • leaforteleaforte Registered Users Posts: 1,948 Major grins
    edited December 26, 2009
    Definitely captures the loneliness of Christmas to some.
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  • BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2009
    Very nice shot. The one lighter colored square toward the bottom middle was a little focus pulling for me, but I really like it over all. I like that the bench and person looked like they were against the tree.
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2009
    Not closer, but maybe move a little to the right...
    If not now, when?
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2009
    Molsondog wrote:
    Quiet time on Christmas Eve in the gardens at The Palais Royal, Paris. Not sure what was going through her thoughts. Everyone has a story, though.

    Assuming that you didn't take this with a panorama camera, I'd like to see the original before the crop...
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
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