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bdcolen

rainbow

Very interesting response within myself to this. There is some visual conflict which is creating an unease within my body (not on conscious level). Haven't identified what it is...

I really like the repeating diagonal pattern of trees. Notice that some are darkened (too much, unless intended artistically) to be black trunks. Closest tree is centered, assume by choice. Biker adds to scene, but is very small in scale.

Did you shoot from different angles? I want to see the view from a few steps to the right...

bdcolen

This one's for you, Rainbow
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Richard

There's nothing important about a red wheelbarrow.

Sorry.

rainbow

Since you're taking requests, can you perhaps take the original shot and photoshop the close tree a little off center and the biker a little to the right? :hide


(...which leads to another topic for your book-to-be -- the limits of acceptability in postprocessing)

bdcolen

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Richard wrote: »

There's nothing important about a red wheelbarrow.

Sorry.

I'm lost...

Richard

bdcolen wrote: »

I'm lost...

Nevermind...just a poetry allusion not worth explaining. Note to self: no more posting after the last glass of wine.

bdcolen

Richard wrote: »

Nevermind...just a poetry allusion not worth explaining. Note to self: no more posting after the last glass of wine.

Okay, you've got me. The poem, please, or at least a quote.:D

Richard

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow


glazed with rain
water


beside the white
chickens.


-William Carlos Williams, 1923

Edit: if it's still unclear, check out some commentaries here and it will become much less clear.

bdcolen

Thanks, Richard. Gotta love that analysis! :-)

rainbow

so much depends
on

from whence B. D.
shoots

diagonal
trees

and resting bike
guy.

:puke1

bdcolen

! Now I want to read the deconstruction, or meta analysis, or whatever the hell that bs was that Richard posted about the red wheel barrow. Some times, a couple making out under the trees is just a couple that couldn't afford a room. ;-)

TonyCooper

bdcolen wrote: »

! Now I want to read the deconstruction, or meta analysis, or whatever the hell that bs was that Richard posted about the red wheel barrow. Some times, a couple making out under the trees is just a couple that couldn't afford a room. ;-)

You should read John Hollander's analysis of "The Red Wheelbarrow".
Hollander, like many poetry and photography critics, seems to feel that
pretentiousness to the extreme is necessary to establish oneself as a
critic.

bdcolen

lOL!