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Comment by kanaj:
Congratulations on being named a jury selection in the Art of 2025 challenge!

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Comment by kanaj:
Wow.

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Comment by kanaj:
I truly love this image. Never mind the base aesthetics which appeal to me—the use of grainy, lo-fi processing that hints at an era of "found" moments and casually grabbed exposures that are accidentally profound. Let's talk instead about the way that even if this was 100% an accidental exposure—which it honestly could have been—its curation and digitally realized presentation demonstrate the artist's attunement to things which the casual eye might otherwise ignore if the bird's face and body were in perfect rule-of-thirds composition within the frame. What I see here is an invitation to contemplate the story that precedes this moment. The negative space is a blank canvas on which I'm allowed to project my own idea of what came in the moments before the shutter exposed this scene—and to imagine the possibilities of what is happening outside the frame to provoke the sudden flight. Above and beyond all of that, I find in this composition an interrogation of the conventions that define what makes an image "pretty" and a gentle suggestion that perhaps the backside of a pigeon is equally as worthy of consideration as its frontside.

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Comment by KristjanUnnar:
Tremendously funny photograph. Makes me think of Henri Cartier-Bresson cursing his camera for being too slow. The cropping decision has transformed this from being something completely mundane into something that provokes feeling.

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Comment by Barroness:
Congrats on your award, This is a wonderful image.

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Comment by kichu:

Originally posted by tate: It's just pixels, but it's doing all the right things.

haha that's a good way of putting how I thought about it, perfect :P
thanks for the award! :)

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Comment by kichu:

Originally posted by posthumous: cheeky title but I do like the egregious inkiness of this smudgefest. I'm hanging this in my fantasy gallery

thanks so much! my first, I think :)

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Comment by tate:
It's just pixels, but it's doing all the right things.

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Comment by posthumous:
cheeky title but I do like the egregious inkiness of this smudgefest.

I'm hanging this in my fantasy gallery

sploot
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Comment by kichu:

Originally posted by tvsometime: That pavement must be sooo warm. Good find.

haha I didn't even think that that might be why they're doing that! Good call