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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: RSL on April 15, 2020, 09:11:51 am

Title: First Light
Post by: RSL on April 15, 2020, 09:11:51 am: .
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on April 15, 2020, 09:48:33 am: I like how you find something special in the (apparently) mundane.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: RSL on April 15, 2020, 10:25:35 am: Thanks, Paulo. But I think "mundane" is a point of view. At the moment I, along with many others, am confined to a house, a yard, and something less than a mile of small, usually quiet river, which unless it's raining I walk either in the morning or the evening. I can't do my favorite thing, which is to go to one of several nearby tourist centers and shoot street. But I always remember Cartier-Bresson's dictum: "Photographing is nothing. Looking is everything." I know you understand that because I see the looking in your own pictures.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: RMW on April 16, 2020, 12:41:08 pm: Fine foto.
And good quote from C.B.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 16, 2020, 03:06:14 pm: Cut it in half, the left one, and you have a winner.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: RSL on April 16, 2020, 03:37:49 pm: Thanks for the advice, Slobodan. Only problem is, I don't agree.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 16, 2020, 03:42:17 pm: Quote from: RSL on April 16, 2020, 03:37:49 pm
Thanks for the advice, Slobodan. Only problem is, I don't agree.

That's ok. I'll send you the bill anyway ;)
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: RSL on April 16, 2020, 03:46:02 pm: Fair enough. I've got a fine shredder.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 16, 2020, 03:49:46 pm: Quote from: RSL on April 16, 2020, 03:46:02 pm
Fair enough. I've got a fine shredder.

Ouch! I would have accepted a Manhattan as a payment in kind.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: RSL on April 16, 2020, 03:53:21 pm: You've got it any time you stop by. Only problem is, we're gonna have to wait for this fiasco with coronavirus to blow over.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: rabanito on April 18, 2020, 04:34:09 pm: Very nice. I like that light
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on April 19, 2020, 04:06:59 am: Quote from: RSL on April 15, 2020, 10:25:35 am
Thanks, Paulo. But I think "mundane" is a point of view. At the moment I, along with many others, am confined to a house, a yard, and something less than a mile of small, usually quiet river, which unless it's raining I walk either in the morning or the evening. I can't do my favorite thing, which is to go to one of several nearby tourist centers and shoot street. But I always remember Cartier-Bresson's dictum: "Photographing is nothing. Looking is everything." I know you understand that because I see the looking in your own pictures.

Perhaps mundane was a wrong term. What I ment to express was that you made a nice photo out of something simple, subjects that we can find near us and are common to us.
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: Bob_B on April 19, 2020, 07:15:27 am: Quote from: Paulo Bizarro on April 15, 2020, 09:48:33 am
I like how you find something special in the (apparently) mundane.
+1, a sign of a great eye
Title: Re: First Light
Post by: RSL on April 19, 2020, 09:11:20 am: Quote from: Paulo Bizarro on April 19, 2020, 04:06:59 am
Perhaps mundane was a wrong term. What I ment to express was that you made a nice photo out of something simple, subjects that we can find near us and are common to us.

Hi Paulo. I understood that you weren't criticizing and I knew what you meant. I used to do grand, sweeping landscapes in Colorado, though unfortunately I didn't have Hans's fabulous fog machine. But I'm ninety years old now, and with Coronovirus around I'm pretty much limited in my access to grand, sweeping landscapes. The alternative is HCB's dictum: "Photographing is nothing. Looking is everything." So I spend a lot of time looking.