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bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited January 6, 2013 in Street and Documentary
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,937 moderator
    edited January 5, 2013
    Poignant.
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  • MomaZunkMomaZunk Registered Users Posts: 421 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2013
    Not seeing any part of the person is what makes the impact for me. I know there is probably someone under the blankets, but I am hoping there isn't anyone there.
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  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2013
    This made me laugh. Not at what is pictured, but at the thought of the
    photographer thinking "This is a photograph". It's not often that the
    photographer sees what isn't there as the photograph. Good catch.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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  • PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2013
    There are all kinds of ways of seeing this capture. There go the chances of me getting any work done this morning. I'll be studying this and it will be all your fault bd!!
    The use of a camera is similar to that of a knife. You can use it to peel potatoes, or carve a flute. ~ E. Kahlmeyer
    ... I'm still peeling potatoes.

    patti hinton photography
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2013
    Laughing.gif, Patti - and Tony. Of course there is someone under the sleeping bag, and what I thought the instant I saw it was, 'this is one of those rare legitimate 'bum' pictures - it has irony, it has pathos, it says something beyond 'hey, here's a homeless guy,' and I can shoot it without even showing the person, and thus not hold the person up to ridicule.' No, I did not 'think' it out in that detail, but it's the explanation for why I saw making the image as being an exception to my "no bums" rule. ;-)
    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
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