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November.

Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
5-11:

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Jerome,

I do not recognize the make of car, but this certainly is impressive. Since there's no overriding theme to this daily series, we miss all the siblings to this well conceived and executed picture, even to the detail of the bright gravel coming out from underneath the deflated tire.

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Jerome Marot said:
You are right, Mary: a restricted theme makes the series more coherent. The difficulty, however, is to find the right set of constraints.

Meanwhile, 6-11:

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So many different prey you've caught, Jerome! One must ask oneself, is all this treasure just in Munich or I need to open my eyes?

Asher
 
Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
Nope, Asher. It is only Munich. All the photography on this planet is taken in Munich.

Must be the beer.


(Someone else might recognize the car maker from the Jaguar head at the center of the wheel.).
 
Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
I am terribly sorry, I know your name to be Maggie. I don't know what happened and I corrected the offending message.
 
Tom dinning

Tom dinning

Registrant*
It's interesting keeping a day ahead of you, Jerome. It's like I'm in the future, watching the past unfold. If I could only tell you what you were about to post for the next day. How clever would that be? I'd willingly send you the Lotto results as well.
You still seem to be ground hugging. Is this developing into a theme? Maybe today we could see a bit more sky. Does anyone live near you? The place is void of human activity. Even the cars are abandoned.
When you first started this and saw the 1st .... Well, you know what I was thinking. Now, for some strange reason, one which is beyond my comprehension, understanding and defies my logic, I am anticipating every new day. You have given meaning to my existence. I now have something to live for although I'm keeping the barbiturate overdose handy just in case. I've extended the 'best by' date to the 18th.

Cheers
Tom
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
You know Jerome, you have managed to enthuse me with this daily series. Like Tom, everyday I am eagerly awaiting your next picture. Actually, I think I will join the exercise myself starting from tomorrow. I have never done anything like this before so I am very curious how it shall go. I hope that I won't regret this. ;)
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Cem_Usakligil said:
You know Jerome, you have managed to enthuse me with this daily series. Like Tom, everyday I am eagerly awaiting your next picture. Actually, I think I will join the exercise myself starting from tomorrow. I have never done anything like this before so I am very curious how it shall go. I hope that I won't regret this. ;)
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Start you own thread in this section! I'm looking forward to your work.

Asher
 
Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
I can't be entirely sure how it is down under, Tom, but on my side of the planet and ever since Sir Isaac Newton allowed apples to fall down, pretty much everything resides on the ground one way or the other. The ground is very much where things are.

But I'll make you a promise: if I ever cross in my walks a scantily clad woman laying on the bonnet of a Ferrari, that picture shall be for you exclusively. I know that the scantily clad part is unlikely at this time of the year in Munich, but who knows what can happen with the greenhouse effect? Obviously, if you can send me the Lotto numbers from the future, that may help me arrange the Ferrari.

Meanwhile, 7-11:

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Andrew Stannard

pro member
Interesting to see this series evolve - perhaps a collage at the end of the month would be interesting.

6-11 my favourite so far - even without sky and scantily clad women :)

Andrew.
 
Tom dinning

Tom dinning

Registrant*
I've lost the sense of scale! DoF is a bit of a hint but they could be anything from straws to water pipes. Don't tell me. I'll work it out somehow.
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Hi Jérôme,

Just to let you know, I am enjoying the series very much. I may not react to the individual pictures but I definitely look at them all closely. Keep them coming.
 
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Martin Stephens

New member
Successful photo for me. It's a kind of Rorschach in blood. The cigarette butt is almost too fortuitous to hope for, but there it is, exactly where it should be. The exposure is very frank, like a forensic quality, which suits it very well.

I also think this is an excellent way to demonstrate the importance of the edge in photography. The edges are so important in a photographic print. Our eye sight doesn't have edges. Not hard ones anyway, so the print edge is crucial in defining, refining, condensing, the subject and making us ponder what is just outside the edge that we can't see.
 
Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
Thank you, Martin. I usually talk about the frame instead of "the edges", but I generally agree on the idea.

12-11:

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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Martin Stephens said:
Successful photo for me. It's a kind of Rorschach in blood. The cigarette butt is almost too fortuitous to hope for, but there it is, exactly where it should be. The exposure is very frank, like a forensic quality, which suits it very well.

I also think this is an excellent way to demonstrate the importance of the edge in photography. The edges are so important in a photographic print. Our eye sight doesn't have edges. Not hard ones anyway, so the print edge is crucial in defining, refining, condensing, the subject and making us ponder what is just outside the edge that we can't see.
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Martin,

Let me add that all this needs a context in presenting the picture. How one places one's pictures also influences the viewers experience! Generally white mats or on the screen here, centering and "white space" all around, help give the picture a territory to have dominion over.

Asher
 
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Martin Stephens

New member
I concern myself as far as my own work with just prints. For small handy book-sized prints to sit and view, I use 8 x 10 and allow a generous border of at least 1" or more. I totally agree that the image has to have its own clear space to occupy. I actually don't like looking at images on the computer screen, and until you mentioned it, never concerned myself with centering and so on. Point well taken, though.

Frames and edges. I speak of a frame as having four distinct edges. The frame therefore being a totality of what is available, and an edge making some specific definition of an element. Just a minor difference in language.

The firewood image is fun and interesting. I like the seeing you present. There's a lot of containment in the images. Very compact. If I am not mistaken, there has yet to be any sky - the open-ended world! You have a nice voice being expressed here.
 
Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
13-11:

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Curiously, the vegetable stand owner went out of the shop shouting that I was not allowed to take pictures. Very strange…
 
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Bart_van_der_Wolf

pro member
Jerome Marot said:
Curiously, the vegetable stand owner went out of the shop shouting that I was not allowed to take pictures. Very strange…
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Hi Jerome,

Must have been the size of your camera. ;) He probably thought you were doing it in a professional capacity, as in food inspection.

I'm enjoying the series. Keep up the hard task.

Cheers,
Bart
 
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Maggie Terlecki

Moderator
I've commented on a few but there are some more I wanted to comment on.

Nov 3rd: I really like this one because of the little bit of wet all around those leaves. I find that quite beautiful.

Nov 4th. I've seen photos of grass that bore me but I like this one because of the perspective and the row of green grass that slices it. The cut crops makes a statement about man working the earth etc.,

Nov 8th made me smile because for a very short moment, I thought there were drinking straws until I noticed the dirt.

Nov 9th: The twin towers. Very dramatic and the clouds definitely feel like smoke rising.

Nov 11: As someone else said, like a Rorschach in blood. Actually I feel like you can see the shape of a man's head in it.

Nov 12: Prepared for winter. I can already see the pile slowly diminishing as the winter progresses and the lower the pile the closer spring will be.

:)
Maggie
 
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