Lotus Flower

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  Eric Rose

• Mar 17, 2018

I have no problem with it as long as it's not just a record shot.

 

• Gerry M

• Mar 17, 2018

Well seen.

 

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  jtk

• Mar 17, 2018

@Eric Rose What are the rules for "problem" and "just a record shot"?

 

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  Eric Rose

• Mar 17, 2018

It's a personal thing, that's why I said "I". It doesn't apply to you @jtk, you do whatever floats your boat.

 

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  jtk

• Mar 17, 2018

@Eric Rose That "I" and "as long as" indicate you're laying down the law. Might be a good idea to substantiate your authority.

 

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  Eric Rose

• Mar 17, 2018

@jtk I don't know what your problem is but I don't have to "substantiate" anything to you. What authority do you have?

 

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  pentaxpete

• Mar 18, 2018

I got into trouble at Brentwood Photographic Club some years ago by entering a photo of a poster behind our dried up metal fountain -- a member complained the Rules said 'No 'Clip Art or Copies of other People's Art to be used in Projected Image Competitons' -- my argument was that I included something of my own interpretation. Nowadays with 'Street Photography' everyone photographs people with 'Posters and Graffiti'
Contax Test 12 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

 

• grahamp

• Mar 18, 2018

Seems a reasonable irony piece - lotus flower in the mural, weed in the pavement crack. Hard to convey without this section of the mural.

 

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  jtk

• Mar 18, 2018

@pentaxpete Camera clubs are ok for what they are...but some very formal ones appear to be run by authority-reveling opinionators, not so appreciative of artists..who, as we all know, are doing their own thing rather than being obedient.

 

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  jtk

• Mar 18, 2018

@grahamp Agreed. Note also that the narrow shadow in foreground is part of a diagonal visual movement. I might have cropped this image tightly (because I tend to do that), but I suspect the photographer was fully aware of the dynamic to which that line contributes.