Breakfast with Grandma

bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited March 17, 2010 in Street and Documentary
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited March 16, 2010
    Great expression in #2. Grandma doesn't look quite as happy, but I can relate to that. Very nice. thumb.gif
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 16, 2010
    Richard wrote:
    Great expression in #2. Grandma doesn't look quite as happy, but I can relate to that. Very nice. thumb.gif
    Thanks, Richard. I'm not sure if Grandma was unhappy, or that's just what she looks like.
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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
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 16, 2010
    clap.gif #1 is pretty awesome--I really like the reflection of the buildings on the window.
    i also like both their expressions--the child's intense cross eyed look and grandma's look.

    #2 is a beautiful portrait.
    Liz A.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 16, 2010
    lizzard_nyc wrote:
    clap.gif #1 is pretty awesome--I really like the reflection of the buildings on the window.
    i also like both their expressions--the child's intense cross eyed look and grandma's look.

    #2 is a beautiful portrait.

    Thanks, Liz - The buildings, btw, are part of Harvard....
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    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

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  • NirNir Registered Users Posts: 1,400 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    I too am with #1 - a special moment in these people's lives!
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  • inetkeninetken Registered Users Posts: 14 Big grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    Wow, I haven't been here in a while and this is what I find :wow.

    #1 To me the grandma (?) looks like she is in thought. Something serious, or maybe just important.

    My first impression on #2 was early 20th Century photographs of children. Reminded me of newsies photos that I've seen online at the Library of Congress. Though the context is vastly different, but it has that feel. Maybe just the child's complexion and eye colour.

    Ken
    I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. --Groucho Marx
  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    Both are wonderful, B.D. clap.gif
    Travis
  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    Looks like one heck of a special breakfast. Timeless shots.
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    These are both really nice. Reflections can be very interesting because you end up with 3 worlds, inside, outside, and reflected. That gives lots of room for interesting juxtaposition, as here.

    I've shot my share of these, but these two have a nice intimacy, something that reflection shots often miss, perhaps because the window also acts as a barrier.
    If not now, when?
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    Oh, and how do you know this is "grandma?" Drink your own kool aid, B.D.
    If not now, when?
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    rutt wrote:
    These are both really nice. Reflections can be very interesting because you end up with 3 worlds, inside, outside, and reflected. That gives lots of room for interesting juxtaposition, as here.

    I've shot my share of these, but these two have a nice intimacy, something that reflection shots often miss, perhaps because the window also acts as a barrier.

    Thanks - I think that they may work because, despite the very strong reflection, the subjects almost look at though what we see in the reflection is behind them, rather than obscuring them. And for that I have to credit physics I don't begin to understand, rather than some skill of mine. My skill was limited to making sure that I wasn't reflected. rolleyes1.gif
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    rutt wrote:
    Oh, and how do you know this is "grandma?" Drink your own kool aid, B.D.

    I don't - But if it's Mom, she deserves a National Enquirer cover. rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif She could well be
    "the nanny." Who knows. Who cares? But as everyone here seems fixated on images having titles, I provided one. I would have been just as happy to post the image without a title, or...whatever.
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    Hey, could be great aunt. I'm just doing stuff I learned from you, here.
    If not now, when?
  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    rutt wrote:
    Hey, could be great aunt. I'm just doing stuff I learned from you, here.
    If we're going that route then breakfast? :D
    Travis
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    Hard to tell whether we learned from him or infected him.
    If not now, when?
  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    rutt wrote:
    Hard to tell whether we learned from him or infected him.
    rolleyes1.gif
    Travis
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    thoth wrote:
    If we're going that route then breakfast? :D

    Yup - Breakfast! This was in a J.P. Licks, where I had gone with a colleague to get a cappuccino around 9:30 a.m. on a weekday! rolleyes1.gif
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    bdcolen wrote:
    Yup - Breakfast! This was in a J.P. Licks, where I had gone with a colleague to get a cappuccino around 9:30 a.m. on a weekday! rolleyes1.gif
    Awesome. It had to be grandma then! binge.gif
    Travis
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