Human Kite

As I experience DK's unique image, the VIEWER is the SUBJECT. We're flying, man, FEEL it? As many viewers are likely imaginative humans the title is apt.

Thanks for the flight DK. (BTW I'd like to see the Braille version too...dare you to upload it - oh, I feeeeel you already have, yes here it is, got my fingers all over it now. Superb : subject and object orl present and korrekt.)

Keep bending those "rules" : like so - Originality 13, Aesthetics 7

 

 

Congrats, sympathies and regards 7.

lol Seven, you dare me? Ok here it is; the "Braille Version"

I've never been to cancun, and I've never been parasailing. You make it look like a blast!

 

Adding the rope and the boat in the frame transforms what would have otherwise been a boring aerial shot into something that begs to be a glossy full-pager in a magazine on parasailing. It literally "takes me there".

 

As for any technical deficiencies in the photograph, I would like to see anyone on here do the exact same scene better. Thought so.

This photograph reminds me that people with the guts to take their camera 70 feet in the air above the ocean deserve to get good results like this one.

Okay, who's bloody idea was the braille photograph? I've just wrecked my plasma screen, crashed my touch-screen and put fingerprints over my spare. AND I STILL CAN'T FEEL IT!

 

Congrats on POW Dennis (I knew him before he was famous etc). I still think its a great shot, as for the sharpness, well, how about a 36mb TIFF file to look at? (Photoshop can sharpen some more if that fails to please!)

 

Regards, Mark.

The comments on this photo are more interesting to me than the photo itself. The enthusiastic response it has received on the whole are not so much due to the form, content, and technical attributes of the photo itself, but to the circumstances in which it was taken, the context of the photo.

 

This photo is almost all context. Reacting only to what lies within the four corners of the photograph: some blurred rope, a tiny dot which might be a boat, a lot of almost detail-less garish blue sea, and some distant, out of focus, overexposed, buildings on a skewed horizon. All of this in an admittedly quite strong and dynamic composition.

 

What people are raving about is mostly not in the photograph itself. Suppose there were a sturdy tower at this location, and you could go up with your tripod in an elevator. And suppose this picture had been taken there on a day that a boat was for some reason moored to the tower by a rope. And suppose further thousands of people had been up this famous tower and had taken pictures, and we had all seen dozens of pictures from this vantage, including some that were perfectly sharp, with fabulous light, dramatic clouds and sea, tall ships parading by, Blue Angels whooshing across the sky, etc. What would we think of this picture then?

 

Aren't we all reacting to the presumed daring of the photograper, rather than to what can be seen in the photograph itself?

 

If I jumped out a thirty-story window with my Fuji disposable and no parachute and I clicked the shutter a few times on the way down, the resulting blurred pictures might be moving, shocking, sensational, and apparently one of them would be selected, posthumously, for Photograph of the Week. But would it be a great photograph?

 

Thank you for taking the time to comment on my photo. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. I agree with a lot of your comments btw. The technical merits of this photo were not something I was all that proud of as a photographer. In fact, if you read my previous comments you already know that I really never intended to post it. However, after joining photo.net I have realized that "art" consists of much more then proper exposure, accurate focus, and a strong subject. In the past I have spent way too much time worrying about such things. Seeing it again after ten years of sitting in storage, reminds me that it was one of the most FUN times I ever had taking a picture. And I think that's what photography is all about. Thanks again for your comments!

Regards,

Dennis Keizer

Sometimes a great image is one simply because the photographer is in the right place at the right time. Photojournalists know what I'm talking about. This is not meant to detract from any photographer's skills.

 

I give it a 10 for asthetics because it offers the viewer something more than just "art".

 

A 10 for originality too.

Nicely done photo. Definitely draws the viewer's interest. I immediately wanted to look at all the details. Love the colors and the perspective.

Nice photo. :)

"Aren't we all reacting to the presumed daring of the photograper, rather than to what can be seen in the photograph itself?"

I think many of us are reacting to how the photo makes us feel rather than the technical aspects of the picture, or and whether it does or does not conform to the rules of photography.

Delicious picture. Screw focus, screw horizon. It looks good, it feels good, so "rules" be damned, it IS good! Do people not read the comments before posting? The effect is clearly some kind of jpeg artifact, I can't see a reason why anyone would want to do that "watercolour" effect to this picture... that's like splashing varsol on the Mona Lisa. To an extent! :)

;)

Ibi goes pshopping!!

DK I'm not getting knees in the Braille version - should we enlist Ibi's help? Best.

Wow, I'm seeing tripple. And the horizon is straight! Don't get too close Ibi. And use your turn signals. :)

This reminds me of a shot my grandfather took durung the battle of Britain.

It used to be so peacefull up here......hey, that's live ammo!

Interesting photo! I have a similar one that I took when I was parasailing in Mexico a few years ago. I however took up a disposable camera with me. I could have taken up a fancier camera with me since I took off and landed on the beach - it was a very smooth landing. My favorite shot I took up there was when I stretched back and photographed the parachute, you'll have to try it the next time you go up!

 

ROTFLALALALAL :-)

 

 

I´m glad you were using a Nikonos! You´ll never know where to land. I mean... any PRO-SLR could

withstand some amount of water, but this much?

Did you land in water or safely on land ?

Anyway, nice picture ! / Patrik

for Christie

Another one. If this keeps up the whole roll is going to be on this page.

Was the landing like this?

You guys are "killing" me!

I like that SHARK !!!