this-and-that.2854
by mariuca

Comment by vawendy:
I love a photo that tells a story -- and this one is all about the story. The one thing that really makes me wonder is the rotation. It looks like you chose to align it so that the tops of the pictures were horizontal -- but it's making it feel tilted (which is ok), but the tilt is keeping him in the frame. I'm thinking if you did a more conventional crop -- with a straight horizon using the floor, or the vertical of the stairs (which look about the same), I think you'd feel even more of a pull from him, and get even more of a sense of movement, force, entropy, whatever you want to call it.

what-is-art_0046.032912
by mariuca

Comment by posthumous:
fascinating

this-and-that.2854
by mariuca

Comment by posthumous:
I agree with Paul, but oddly enough I didn't see the "photograph" until you processed it this way. Now it's clear. Seeing the reflection of the legs in the hardwood and the clear connection between stairs and coat makes all the difference.

this-and-that.2854
by mariuca

Comment by Melethia:
The staircase jacket... you just can't make this stuff up! I love their shared dissimilar vision.

this-and-that.2854
by mariuca

Comment by Bear_Music:
Totally agree, Paul.

monday afternoon
by mariuca

Comment by giantmike:
Excellent vantage point for this. That is what I wanted to get for the challenge.

this-and-that.2854
by mariuca

Comment by ubique:
It's a real photograph! That's what a photograph is for: to isolate a moment in a way that amplifies and even transcends visual observation. This photograph is about the photograph itself ... the photograph is the hero here, not the subject, and not the photography.

I wish there were a way I could get this onto the front page at DPC for a week. Or a month. So that people could see the difference between a photograph and photography. So that arguments about what's art and what isn't could be settled instantly, in a way that must be clear to even the most reluctant adventurer.

Just a wonderful, witty, original, durable, photograph. Thank you!

fantasie
by mariuca

Comment by posthumous:
Wonderful art

fantasie
by mariuca

Comment by Neat:
awesome, i love it!

fantasie
by mariuca

Comment by blindjustice:
I believe.