Run over - human vs. animal!by
thomasjessenComment: I donĂ¢€™t like the subject, but the quality of your photo is superb. It's clear that at least you're using your photo talent to communicate something you think is important. I have a lot of respect for a photographer who is willing to push out of the usual-DPC-Stock box and show us something new and (sometimes) risky. However unpleasant folks found the subject, it was an incredible photo to convey such a strong emotional payload.
In my view the final average score reflects folks' queasiness about the subject, not the quality of the photo.
One of the values of any art form is to make people think. And some of the world's great art is explicitly designed to make people think about hard things, unpleasant things, things that are wrong ... sometimes just to expose them, sometimes to initiate change.
Many of the photos at DPC are as empty of meaning as sugar is empty of nutrition. Sometimes we need a little protein in our diets. And it's refreshing to see a photo that makes us think. In the same way there's nothing wrong with an occasional lollipop, there's nothing wrong with the occasional cute puppy, the tiger's head, the waterdrop, the illuminated glassware, the motion-blurred seashore at sunset and so on. But there's also nothing wrong with the occasional photo that makes us think, react, feel.
Thanks for taking the risk.
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