Visionaries

Shawn, I was actually referring to applying the comments about these three little girls to the other photo, sort of a "What the....." moment!

David, we could probably get into this topic pretty deep--maybe we did before ;)) Anyway, I agree that many over use the whole digital thing, I think there are certain "categories" of photography where it matters what is and how it is presented and then there are times where it doesn't really matter. I know that some will want to classify the latter as not being photography, but the works of Gursky, Wall, Struth, Ruff, Crewdson etc, who all alter the image and or combine many different exposures is still photography and consider as such in the larger world, but they don't try to pass it off as something it is not.

Because I am not a photographer and my English doesn't help me too much, I always hesitate to be one of your forum debater. But for this time and specially for this point of view I want to be one of you.

Most of the people all around the world will be more happy to see their photos on paper and not on the screen. This psychic motive perceived by the big companies like Noritsu and fujifilm and they spend millions of dollars in developing the printing machine and so did Epson, Canon, HP, Kodak, HiTi... etc for their printers.

That is why, what was written in the introduction of PRINT book will be survive for hundreds of years, and the photographer should always look to his digital photos as a negative, without going more deeply in ideas of visualization and zone system.

OK so this isn't going to make me too popular ( a big concern of mine ) but I liked the replacement image a lot more, it was a wider view of the parade and had plenty of that all important context, plus it was in focus..... quite sharp focus actually. It also made reading the comments much more entertaining.

Now Gordon, do you REALLY think those two images were from the same parade?!?!?!

Museeb,

I really don't think anything beats having a hard copy of a photo in my hands. I find some satisfaction in having tangible evidence of my work that I can actually hold.

John,

I think when you look at those two pictures, it is quite clear that they were all standing together. I'm a huge proponent of inter-cultural parades. ;-)

Gordon, half the site thinks that it was better. It was a compelling shot--and well done. I would have loved to have read a week's worth of commentary on that one as PoW.

--Lannie

John, I thought that was what the three girls were staring at so intently ... no??

Landrum, agreed better image all around and no doubt it would have made for lively discussion.

I can't believe you guys haven't been over to the new POW, it's been up 3 days already! JDM is picking on me :((! Sometimes I don't think people get it..........

why don't we just pick our own photo of the week and have a discussion in another forum thread. i vote for the three naked people.

Sorry John, I've been on the road, But yeah I saw that one on Friday morning before heading out.

Not having the time to read all of the comments, I've selected a few that seem to discuss my thoughts.
I personally would have liked one of the girls to be truly 'in focus'. For me, that's the most uneasy viewing aspect. As I attempt to grab on to an emotional feel in the photo, without one of the girls being sharp, I can't fill in my own story for the photo. I need a starting point and I don't have one.

How boooring. Any soccer mom could have captured this.

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