No Standing

[Sam Hames]

I had so much fun seeing other peoples take, I thought I'd do it again:

Thoughts appreciated.

 

[Tom Dinning]

Its a wonder you weren't given a citation for taking the photo, Sam.
What's a light for if not to stand under?

Typical Brizzy park garden. Palms, bromeliads.

 

[Asher Kelman]

I had so much fun seeing other peoples take, I thought I'd do it again:

Thoughts appreciated.

My first thought would be to bring a bucket of cement and fill in the empty place to clean it up. What moved you to take the picture?

Asher

 

[Jarmo Juntunen]

... and I thought we were THE country of restrictions!

 

[Sam Hames]

My first thought would be to bring a bucket of cement and fill in the empty place to clean it up. What moved you to take the picture?

Asher

1. I like palm trees.
2. I like this particular clump, they're always a little bit of interest in an otherwise work filled day.
3. I was a little down and tired. It seemed to match.

The other things l, like the no standing sign I didn't notice til later.

Sam

 

[Jim Galli]

Sam. I read the post about people who take up space in the registry but never post anything much about other peoples pictures, and I feel sort of guilty, so I poke a critique desired button, happened to be yours, and the perfect OPF picture comes up.

The sign and the picture say the same thing to me. 'move along, nothing here to see, keep moving.'

Let me explain. I'm a fish out of water on this site. So take my critique and $1.95 and get a cup of starbucks.

At least 97% of the time I DO click on a photo or 2 at OPF, I stare blankly, and think to myself, really? really?

And folks feel pretty much the same about what I post. So what?

Every once in a while, someone will put a picture up that takes my breath away though. Like this one.

 

[Asher Kelman]

The sign and the picture say the same thing to me. 'move along, nothing here to see, keep moving.'

Jim's criticism is much more useful than the usual kind words given by us all! The image is not even boring! It does not hold us for long enough! By contrast, the picture Jim links to, by Graham Mitchell, one cannot pass by, no way! We're forced to engage and we're never turned off for lack of interest.

Every once in a while, someone will put a picture up that takes my breath away though. Like this one.

Sam,

So this is what we find; magic enough to make us take a second look and then be impressed and made to linger. With such a picture, one gets a savory experience!

The challenge for us then, when faced with a dull result is to go back to the site and hunt. There's something special to you. Where is it? What is it? Can you drill down to recognize the essence of your fascination? I'd be on my knees, look up, bring a step ladder and look down, put a naked man playing chess or whatever makes this scene electric. At least, that's how I approach initial failure. Art doesn't always happen with one seemingly "serendipitous snap" as post #19, here. Sometimes we have to return and try again. Fortunately, it's not a fleeting moment that you can't find again. It's there, you just have to find it again! Others might say it's not important. But really it is, since you already ranked it as significant enough to share!

Asher

 

[Tom Dinning]

I've been following Sam's palms for a while now, here and another place. Sam has a fascinating way of recording his daily life that can relate to anyone who takes the time out to wander through his bland and uncompromising images and words of his home city.
I've seem Graham's shots before, and not necessarily from Graham. Precision lighting, sharp as, faceless people, lifeless composition, 'sharp pictures of blurry concepts' as someone else said. They are for someone else for **** sake; advertising, feeding the masses, falsifying the very existance of rational thinking, extracting the bluntness of life from our view, generic and repetitive.
Sam, on the other hand, presents it how he sees it, rough and unrefined as it might seem to the more 'discerning' artists among us. There is more value is Sam's shots that most I have seen here for some time. Sure, I wouldn't buy one and hang it on my wall but I don't think Sam would sell me one anyway. Its his thought process that is on show here.

Now Sam you can send me that money any time.

 

[Sam Hames]

At least 97% of the time I DO click on a photo or 2 at OPF, I stare blankly, and think to myself, really? really?

I think the same, but moreso about my own photos than anywhere else. The picture you link to? It leaves me cold. I could be melodramatic and say it's the antithesis of what I want to do - that's not the direction for me.

Thankyou for taking the time to respond.

Jim's criticism is much more useful than the usual kind words given by us all! The image is not even boring! It does not hold us for long enough! By contrast, the picture Jim links to, by Graham Mitchell, one cannot pass by, no way! We're forced to engage and we're never turned off for lack of interest.

Sam,

So this is what we find; magic enough to make us take a second look and then be impressed and made to linger. With such a picture, one gets a savory experience!

The challenge for us then, when faced with a dull result is to go back to the site and hunt. There's something special to you. Where is it? What is it? Can you drill down to recognize the essence of your fascination? I'd be on my knees, look up, bring a step ladder and look down, put a naked man playing chess or whatever makes this scene electric. At least, that's how I approach initial failure. Art doesn't always happen with one seemingly "serendipitous snap" as post #19, here. Sometimes we have to return and try again. Fortunately, it's not a fleeting moment that you can't find again. It's there, you just have to find it again! Others might say it's not important. But really it is, since you already ranked it as significant enough to share!

Asher

Ahhhh, you know, what you wrote makes pieces fit together. Thankyou!

We're all driven by different things. As far as photos go - this satisfies the compulsive need to photograph in me. The single image is not really the right way to present this - I need to think on this for a while.

Sure, I wouldn't buy one and hang it on my wall but I don't think Sam would sell me one anyway. Its his thought process that is on show here.

Thanks Tom! You're ruining my free-living artist dreams!!! Guess I'll stick to the day-job for now.
That might also explain why my partner has always thought my choice of wall decor is strange.