bite candy
by sevilduvarci

Comment by UNTITLED:
Very cool and funky how you divided this scene like that. You've really got my mind working overtime trying to digest this one.

bite candy
by sevilduvarci

Comment by Bernard_Marx:
... or kelp(!)
damn it, ursula beat me to the punch.
KELP as a one-word statement is a riot!

Anyway, I like this one as per usual. I hope that you find an opportunity to submit a Triptych entry... you have an excellent eye for theme.

bite candy
by sevilduvarci

Comment by ursula:
Ha, ha, took me a moment! Good catch. I like the "kelp" sticker on the newspaper dispenser. It's sort of funny to see that guy standing behind the green pole, hands sticking out at both sides.

phone
by sevilduvarci

Comment by posthumous:
this is a particularly voyeuristic image. in other words, it is extremely candid (is that like very pregnant?). just to contradict myself, everyone has posed perfectly for you. but that is why it seems so candid! everyone is mid-gesture. and of course the person who most fascinates us is the one behind the phone. The phone acts as a stand-in, reminding us that none of these people are really here with us, they have all been replaced by stand-ins that we create with our minds.

but to get back to the voyeurism, this piece seems to have these openings into light and color, a rhythm of overlapping peepholes into a vivid world. A tighter crop showing just the right half would be a very different picture. We would be forced to invent a story about the man and woman on either side of the phone, even though we know they are not "together." But leaving 7 people in the picture is too complicated to suggest a single story. The mind is freer to roam through a book of stories, it scintillates. Either way works fine.

Also, there are some strong diagonals in both directions that give the composition a lot of energy.

lonely
by sevilduvarci

Comment by CNovack:
Love the mood captured here. The buildings are dark and gigantic - they seem to be pressing/closing in on the small & lone figure in the scene. The lone figure stands there isolated with buildings towering over him - almost swallowing him from sheer size. I see this as a conceptual piece commenting on the irony of how we can live in a large city/metropolis but yet can get lost and alone in it. I like how the middle third of the photo is light (things are illuminated) while the right & left thirds of the photo falls or is shadow. Again it adds to the feel of being closed in/isolated in/quartered off. The bridge is symbolic too. We only see a slice of it here - seemingly cut short because of the buildings. The bridge can be seen as symbolic of being able to get to places of reaching beyond a limited boundary. Here it does not offer the possiblity to escape from a boundary limitation. It does not offer the ability to cross. It is limited or cut off in it's visible span. Thus a visible 'road' that would allow the individual to escape/to travel 'out' of his/her confines of 'building bound' loneliness to open skies & friendly faces goes/leads nowhere. Wonderful street capture.

streetlife14
by sevilduvarci

Comment by Bernard_Marx:
Well done.
Your ability to manipulate color in wonderfully unique.

Message edited by author 2007-04-26 09:00:56.

streetlife14
by sevilduvarci

Comment by Jutilda:
I like the yellow/black theme. Great frame as well. Urban shots like this are always so appealing to me.

streetlife14
by sevilduvarci

Comment by Germaine:
Love the yellow and that sign in a foreign alphabet.

phone
by sevilduvarci

Comment by Wink:
Wonderful urban energy and that decapitated foot really anchors it all.

streetlife14
by sevilduvarci

Comment by ursula:
And more telephones :)
Beautiful safron colour.