Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: seamus finn on January 07, 2014, 03:43:59 pm
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In a rush of blood to the head, I've posted another one.
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I love it Seamus,
It poses so many questions without attempting to address any one of them.
I sat with a one-legged guy in a motorised wheel-chair outside Woolworths at Balmain on New Year's Day. These chaps are so often cut from similar cloth and, as a rule, present as 'characters'. You have reinforced that here in juxtaposing him with a sea of soporifically boring, colourless excess walking protein. And further amplified the herd mentality by the word 'ANTS' at the left.
Cheers,
W
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Walter,
I was walking through a market somewhere, I think it was in Spain, and I noticed this guy making his way through the crowd, and they were all greeting him like he was Jesus. Obviously a local character, as you say. Then I saw the dog and the feet. To me, this picture is about companionship.
By the way, I know Balmain in Sydney - a lovely place probably well gentrified by now. Like yourself, I sat with a few 'down and outs', for me it was in Oxford St. Sydney, on a recent visit, and I was astonished at their humanity. A little example: I handed a guy a few dollars to get some beer for himself and his buddy in a nearby bar, and he came back, solemnly gave me the change and told me he had bought a drink for me too. For better or worse, I sat on the wall and drank the beer with them. It wasn't the worst beer I ever had, and I've had a few!
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No disputing your appraisal and motivation, Seamus. I was just in Monor White mode and looking at what else there was there.
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Seamus, you really are on a roll!
What Walter said is spot on.