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« Reply #660 on: March 04, 2014, 08:11:39 am »

My amber varnish jar....

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« Reply #661 on: March 04, 2014, 09:23:55 am »

My amber varnish jar....

Peter
Man, that wine throws a lot of sediment --- outside the bottle.    ;)
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« Reply #662 on: March 04, 2014, 10:22:04 am »

Man, that wine throws a lot of sediment --- outside the bottle.    ;)



It's a nice shot, and the trick with the wine sediment is so that you can't re-cork the bottle for later if you fail to finish it in one sitting. That way, they sell more retsina. And/or get the basis for Metaxa.

Hic! 'scuse me!

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« Reply #663 on: March 04, 2014, 06:50:53 pm »

From my studio classroom NYC....

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« Reply #664 on: March 05, 2014, 01:51:34 am »

From my studio classroom NYC....

Peter

Interesting composition.
I like it.
Cheers
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Re: Sky View
« Reply #665 on: March 06, 2014, 08:33:07 am »

Interesting composition.
I like it.
Cheers
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Thanks Chris, very much....

Peter

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« Reply #666 on: March 06, 2014, 06:46:56 pm »

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« Reply #667 on: March 07, 2014, 02:46:58 am »

Golden crown...


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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #668 on: March 07, 2014, 06:06:05 pm »

Peter, I like the direction you are going to with your last images posted here.
Even if some may see them in their current state as tourist shots, I see there is something behind them, not yet fully realized.
To my eye it looks like you are experimenting with very simple, maybe even simplicistic, colorful compositions,
an abstract graphical concept realized with simple shots.
Go on with them!
I am sure if you follow this yet-to-be-fully-realized thing something good will come out of it.
Maybe not in photography - maybe in your paintings - no idea where.
But I see you are chasing something and I think you're going to catch it after some time.
Cheers
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Re: Without Prejudice 2 / Visit 2
« Reply #669 on: March 07, 2014, 09:15:27 pm »

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Re: Without Prejudice 2 / Visit 2
« Reply #670 on: March 08, 2014, 04:59:05 am »

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Why does this make me feel uneasy, unsettled? Does it reflect myself or something outside of me that I don't want coming in, but fear that will?

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Re: Without Prejudice 2 / Visit 2
« Reply #671 on: March 08, 2014, 10:03:27 am »



Why does this make me feel uneasy, unsettled? Does it reflect myself or something outside of me that I don't want coming in, but fear that will?

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..."Oh, hidden deep but ever present!
     I do not know from whence it comes.
     It is the forefather of the ancestors."
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Re: Without Prejudice 2 / Visit 2
« Reply #672 on: March 08, 2014, 12:06:25 pm »



Why does this make me feel uneasy, unsettled? Does it reflect myself or something outside of me that I don't want coming in, but fear that will?

Rob C
Perhaps because it is a compelling and powerful image that doesn't have a simple meaning.
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Re: Without Prejudice 2 / Visit 2
« Reply #673 on: March 08, 2014, 01:22:44 pm »

Perhaps because it is a compelling and powerful image that doesn't have a simple meaning.


I sometimes wonder if we aren't on the wrong tack when we consider images from a point of view of 'meaning'. In fact I wonder if a picture can ever have a meaning as such. I can see it can suggest on various levels, that it can stir memory or even fantasy, but apart from news imagery which is something quite else, specific even, or perhaps advertising which self-consciously attempts, with greater or lesser degrees of success to sell you on an idea about a product and its possible effect on you if you buy it, I think 'meaning' is a bit of a stretch when it comes to tying that word up with pictures.

Perhaps the great thing about pictures might be that they actually have no meaning, because they can just as well be thought to mean pretty much anything the viewer chooses to have them mean. Now that would seem a fatal contradiction, wouldn't it? Nothing can mean everything, or can it?

Perhaps the best we should hope for or expect is that an image (such as the shoes and chair) will make us wonder or feel something.

On a scale of that nature, then I suppose the vast majority of images means zero. Or have we generally already accepted that as fact?

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #674 on: March 08, 2014, 02:43:39 pm »

Exploring the inside of my PC and the joys of off-camera flash ...
Yeah - got a new toy (Fuji Flash EF-42).

Cheers
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #675 on: March 08, 2014, 03:09:28 pm »

Maybe there is a story, or maybe there's not.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #676 on: March 08, 2014, 11:42:09 pm »

Maybe there is a story, or maybe there's not.

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All your photos have meaning, Rob.   ;)
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #677 on: March 09, 2014, 05:44:16 am »

All your photos have meaning, Rob.   ;)



Thanks, Eric, and harking back to another post related to the meaning of images, I think there are two separated issues to address here - not on this specifc pic - but in general: the photographer brings something to the relationship and the viewer something quite separate.

In my own case (I'm thinking here about non-commercial work though there are overlaps, of course), and especially with the Coke series, the interest is very much from the point of view of what will it look like - does the idea, when there is one that's close enough to having a form, translate into reality, and how close or distant is that result from what was anticipated. Even then, some stuff as seen in the camera changes quite a lot when it comes onto the screen and I think I want to change the boundaries to a different shape, or simply crop in to concentrate the idea; even cutting away neutral background a bit can alter the strength of a shot quite dramatically.

Perhaps that's the meaning for the photographer: a travelling between the points of departure and ultimate arrival? And for the viewer? Perhaps the watching of a little, silent documentary?

As usual, more questions than answers.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #678 on: March 09, 2014, 08:04:29 am »

HI Rob,

I think this is a very telling self portrait on very many levels.....


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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #679 on: March 09, 2014, 10:58:07 am »

HI Rob,

I think this is a very telling self portrait on very many levels.....


Peter


Peter, I think I might have to stop posting!

But then I guess everything that we do for ourselves is a form of self-examination. Before I had a decent camera and processing facilities (the converted loft in the family home) I was into painting. This was almost entirely due to my mother who dragged me to many galleries when I was a child under eight, and she also gathered a fine collection of books on painting and painters, which I absorbed like a sponge. I wanted to be a painter, but was thwarted by the system: I was denied art as a subject in my last school because it was deemed a class for dummies, and since my other subjects were not too bad and the school had ambitions to retain its leading place in the local school-leaving results tables, in which pursuit I was but a pawn amongst many, I was roundly discouraged by both system and, in truth, family. Art college demanded a Higher Art certificate (English version being A levels, + or -) which, obviously, I couldn't produce without being in the class...

In the end, I wasted a further four years before breaking into photography. In retrospect, not one damned part of photography has been an easy option...

Rob C
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