October 2008
by e301

Comment by Balko:
Meets Challenge:2
Technical:2
Interestingness:2
Creativity:
TOTAL: 6

October 2008
by e301

Comment by Iraklis:
Very nice setting...The painting serves as a strong reminder that sometimes life just isn't as dramatic as we depict it.

October 2008
by e301

Comment by kolasi:
good eye here, the worker is almost posed like the subject in the painting

October 2008
by e301

Comment by Melethia:
Mr Clarke, I presume. I so want to know the story of the painting/picture on the wall, and why Dan felt he had to add his bit to it.

October 2008
by e301

Comment by crabappl3:
What keeps this from being a 10 from me is that the man is tucked into the truck... had we seen him looking at the shot or walking to or from the truck he'd have added that last little bit of umph you'd need to push this into 10 catagory. Not sure why this image is on the wall but it's a great find with good post processing.

October 2008
by e301

Comment by mstone:
I would love to see this one in color. I think the B&W might have been a mistake. The painting on the wall looks to be colorful. It would have been a nice contrast. I hope you post the color version after the challenge.
Best of luck, its a great capture.

October 2008
by e301

Comment by Tycho:
Hmmm...Why would there be a painting like that on a wall out on the street like that? But let's never mind that; a bit odd at first but not terribly interesting in and of itself. The image in its entirety, however, is a different story. On one hand, I see a contradiction between the wholly inelegant, sterile, characterless, utilitarian desing of the van and the painting into which one assumes that a great deal of passion, care, love (or hate, or both, as the case may be) and self, not to mention a lot of hard work, was poured. This, for some reason, immediately reminds me of what Wilde once said about making a useful thing being forgivable as long as the maker does not admire it and the only excuse for making a useless thing being that the maker admires it intensely...And then on the other hand, we have curious parallels between the positions of the two men's bodies, and between the open door of the truck and the woman on whose lap the man rests his head. I'd rather go no further than having noted these on a solely visual level, and leave the momentarily fun and exciting yet ultimately useless intellectual exercise of trying to find profound meanings and messages to others. I'd just like to say that rarely do I find myself wanting to look at an image for longer than 5 seconds (Regardless of how scintillating an image the photographer thinks it is) and even more rarely (more like "hardly ever"), being inspired to write a longer-than-five-words comment like this...10

October 2008
by e301

Comment by crayon:
reminds me of works from JJBeguin. really nice work

The Disposable Society
by e301

Comment by chromeydome:
PostLuminous Award Nominee!
beautiful b/w conversion, tonalities, superbly balanced composition, and interesting subject

October 2008
by e301

Comment by ThingFish:
Sublime shot. I love it.
I gave a 7