You are the one who thinks it to be ugly not me. I didn't ask for a critique but you seem to be determined to give one. Scrap it? Why should I? Just because you don't like it? On Flickr it was well received so I will let it live.
I posted the image to Flickr with the caption Breakneck Speed. I thought about not posting because it looked like I was mocking the person? It seemed to be well received but one person commented that he looked deformed which I agree with. Does anyone agree that it is mocking and unethical or it was "reasonable" to post it? Where do you draw the line when taking images and posting them to Flickr or other sites?
As you were there, perhaps you could clarify whether the man's bodily contortion is the result of a mobile phone or a medical condition? Initially I assumed the former, and I enjoyed the shot for the extremity of the contortion (modern phones are increasingly difficult to cradle like this). But now that it's been pointed out that what I thought was a phone is possibly just the collar of the poor chap's shirt, and that he might indeed have a disability, then the photograph (and especially its public posting with the title 'breakneck speed') does seem to be in poor taste.
My initial reaction was it was a medical condition.
... like watching Richard Dawkins argue with Donald Trump.
I did a screen grab and enlarged. It's a phone.
When you google "dystonia" for images, this is one of the eerily similar illustrations:
True, I couldn't see the keypad. He may have a specially made shirt with a collar much larger on the rhs, which he has starched into a straight-edged form with a 10mm rounded edge. Then with a strange case of acute dystonia that effects only the neck while allowing him to walk normally, this might be what we'd see.
It's not a phone. When you cradle a phone, you cradle it your ear, not your eye.
?Peter
