Facing a Visual Culture
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Comment by pamelasue:
B/W conversion hurts this image ... the sky and shopping bags are blown out ... and you've lost the details in all of the dark pants ...

Facing a Visual Culture
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Comment by LynnS:
Personally I do not like the stick in front of the girls nose.. and the back of the person on the right is also a bit "obscuring" my vision... would have liked to see more of whats going on behind them.

shiny circumference over dark diameter
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Comment by raish:
A dark branch bisects
the shining old orb
that brings new growth.

I just wanted the seasonal reference.

Lovely picture.

shiny circumference over dark diameter
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Comment by bmartuch:
I'm glad you explained it because I didn't get it. A team suck classic.

shiny circumference over dark diameter
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Comment by meyers:
Pi, and a Haiku? You raise the bar for Team Minus, sir!

shiny circumference over dark diameter
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Comment by karmat:
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by karmat

Okay, normally, I offer what I think to be compositional and technical ideas to help a photographer do "better" with regards to dpc challenges. "Knowing" you though, I already know that you "know" the rules, you simply "apply" them in different ways. Also, unless I am sorely mistaken, you do not shoot for a score, but rather a reaction. So, I am going to give you my 'reaction' on a more emotional level than a technical reaction. If this is not satisfactory, please PM, and I will amend it. But, I have ot say, without the title, I would have been left scratching my head. :)

This shot reminds me of this year's transition from winter (the bare branches) to summer (the sunshine) without the wonderful season of spring (a few buds, but nothing substantial -- as if it doesn't even exist). It is a desolate feeling, but a shallow desolate feeling, if such a thing can exist, simply because the sunshine, be it a sunset or sunrise, seems to be a symbol of better things to come. Everything must come to an end, but in that, new things can begin. It is a photograph that portrays change, both with its hope of what is to come and reluctance to turn loose of what is. It is reaching to a new height, regardless of what might be holding you to the ground.

Could you, would you, on a train?
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Comment by harmsusmc:
I see where you're going with this, but this shot just doesn't look like a train...here it looks a bit more like a building.

Could you, would you, on a train?
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Comment by aabatkinson:
are you working with the goat man?

shiny circumference over dark diameter
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Comment by Dancing620queen:
nice use of pi! overall beautiful image!

Wright Flyer Three-View
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Comment by krnodil:
I thought "Close Encounters" when I first saw it, the symbols on the left looking like some sort of alien hieroglyphics. Did not know about the Wright Flyer three-view before - I like how you tried to approximate a bird with the three-view and the dramatic sky gives the whole image a portentous quality.

It would be interesting to see another try at this shot without the plane, and with the three views placed randomly across the whole expanse of the sky (well, it might be *visually* interesting, but conceptually not so much - since I guess the inclusion of the plane was necessary for the Wright brothers connection). Nevermind, I'm babbling about possibilities again. :)