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Street shots (new ones)

Seriously, your work is much better than most of what I've seen published. There is no justice in the world.

If I had the social medias I would check out your instagram just to see more.

Thanks! I agree, there is no justice, but that’s true for so many other more important issues. As with everything else, luck plays a big part.

Actually, Instagram has become such a vast and global playground that all the best in the business are there. Hours and hours of surfing.
 
Ah, Ned, do a book. Please. Even just a 'zine. On newsprint, even. And please include the kid & goat.

I will devote 2019 and 2020 to making things happen.
 
Iphone, at the Beach, earlier today.

 
I will devote 2019 and 2020 to making things happen.

I'll take 2.
For starters. And I hope that it'll include that last shot (just so I can ponder the Imponderable: why is that gent in the background caressing his belly? Why do I never see things like this?)
 
Iphone, at the Beach, earlier today.
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I really like that. I can't explain why, but it is appealing and I really like it.
 
I will devote 2019 and 2020 to making things happen.
Good luck-if you can just be patient and persistent then you're well on the way to making things happen.
 
I'll take 2.
For starters. And I hope that it'll include that last shot (just so I can ponder the Imponderable: why is that gent in the background caressing his belly? Why do I never see things like this?)

This guy was funny. He was at the beach every day at sunset and would do different poses while facing the sea. He would also change hands holding his belly. It was somekind of a routine, a prayer of some sort. And I noticed he was trying to keep it low profile. I wanted to respect him and not take obvious photos of him, but from that angle it was quite an appealing scene and so I took photos with my iphone.
 
Unfortunately, this year I have decided to make it 100% Black & White, and I knew I’d regret it. I have a few shot of this scene with my Leica + Tri-x, but I believe this iphone shot takes the Cake.

 
Well actually... the tri-x shots, the lady came out her window and started giving me sheet. I will post it when it gets developed. Might be a winner...
 
Try a little bit of flashing on the goat might help, but the goat is " good to go" as is.!!!

Yes it’s good. Anything more and it starts to become gray.

Thanks!
 
An oldie but a goodie.

I dislike summer heat, and every summer I catch myself longing for winter. And then, I get back to reality and I’m not so sure anymore... haha.


 
My wannabe Vivian Maier attempt. With a summicron 28mm on tmax100.

 
Iphone, at the Beach, earlier today.

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Fresh from trying to edit a 1500-word essay on why you can't talk about art, and re-visiting this shot from time-to-time for a little over a month now, it is reinforced that while you cannot say what art is or how it does what it does, you can burble on lamely about some of the things in it.

Ah, composition/content. Those four interlocking triangles, arranged by size clockwise from lower right. That may not have been consciously deliberate, but it's not serendipity, not accident. I think it's the 'T' gene in play; innate, born talent - you see it, you know it without knowing it; it appears in the air over your head or as a silent command, and the shot gets made. The same ineffable factor in all your best photographs.

The pointing figure gives movement to the whole, to even the semi-static figures - the woman completes her glance down and small kick at the sand and the old gent anoints his belly and pate with swirls of propitiation and prayer and they are animate, and the animation invites or compels narrative because there is a story being told, but the viewer must complete the details for himself. Looking at this rich photo demands, compels participation. And that is one foot print, the spoor of art.
Or so it seems to me.
 


Thank you very much for your post, and your time. The kind that makes me think and pause.

Yes, many things at play in art. By the way, what is art?

But as you said, at least in my case, it is how it’s done: I see a scene with my eyes, but it’s when my heart sees the scene that I shoot my best shots. It’s unequivocal, I move around and plant my feet exactly where I want them and I compose without thinking. I just look through the viewfinder and once the scene starts singing that is when everything is aligned.
This is also when I am 100% sure that there was no other way to shoot the scene except the way I’ve done it. So this is talent; nothing mathematical, it just happens when the heart and the scene sing along together.

All of the above is very subjective, but that’s how it goes in my case.

And now I will take a moment to post a super lousy scan of a freshly developed negative. I can’t wait to properly print this tri-x negative developed in Xtol 1:1.


 
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By the way, what is art?

A most excellent unanswerable question. But you're doing it.

And now I will take a moment to post a super lousy scan of a freshly developed negative. I can’t wait to properly print this tri-x negative developed in Xtol 1:1.

And I will take a moment to, ah, "collect" or bookmark a copy of it for myself. Until you publish your book.
 
Willy and Awty, thank youse.

Was a freshly dead dog, by the way. Run over by a car, and then shoveled away a few moments later.
 
Willy and Awty, thank youse.

Was a freshly dead dog, by the way. Run over by a car, and then shoveled away a few moments later.

This terrific shot is fully freighted with emotional contradiction. Just blows me away.
I gotta ask: is this a Roma child?