'Runway to Levitation'

Like the cast of the movie 'Peter Pan', these three children appear to

be levitating . . . . the first child on the left appears well on the way to

toward the sky, then the second child, taking off, and the third child,

right, getting ready to launch. Your rates and critiques are invited and

most welcome; if you rate harshly, very critically, or just wish to leave a

remark, please submit a helpful and constructive comment; thank you

in advance for sharing your photographic knowledge. Enjoy! John

I'm not usually attracted by street photography but this is one is an exception.  You've captured a great moment.  Works well for me in b/w.

What a refreshing  comment. 

Thank you so much.

john

John (Crosley)

If you don't get the relationship between the caption (title) and this photo. try to think of Peter Pan and the Lost Kids and how they 'levitated'.

Now imagine these young children are beginning to 'levitate'

Up, up and away . . . . . '

The entire Peter Pan story was designed to encourage adults to remember how they thought as children.

If you didn't understand this, do you now?

john

John (Crosley)

I liked the image very much for the reasons you explained.

However, I believe you should have refrained yourself from explaining the photo that much.  It is like giving the child a candy instead of putting it under some cover where she/he can find it when nobody is around ;)

Regards,

I certainly debated the point you make, and came to a sorry conclusion.

Photos on this service compete for attention, and unless someone 'sees' them, they get left behind, unseen and unappreciated.

This  service is not full of experienced, photo professionals, gallery owners, fine art collectors or others with great experience, especially raters.

Rates and views are the name of the game and if a photo doesn't show its 'point' in thumbnail HERE, then it may easily get passed over completely.

Many would see this photo and never uncover what I see in it, and why I chose to post it.

If in a museum, gallery or other exhibition, it would have no caption and would be like you said -- like a piece of candy covered.

People would then be free to uncover (or not) but those who did not uncover would wonder why such a 'mundane' photo was worthy of exhibition if it only showed three rather evenly spaced kids running away from the camera, instead of 'ascending' Peter Pan and Lost Kids like.

It's a cruddy choice to make and I am not in love with 'explaining' my photos to those who don't look at them except in thumbnail,  but I think it's a valid choice.

Any better suggestions?  I'm open, considering that this is Photo.net not the Gagosian Galleries.

Thanks for a helpful critique.

john

John (Crosley)

Yes, I really miss having the option of adding a note about a photo when you submit it for ratings. As I understand it, you now also have to submit it for critique in order annotate it.

You can submit for ratings only and not get any critiques, or do the same thing as before, and  submit (1) for rating and (2) for critique and it's like before except everyone ants to rate low.

That's life.

Thanks, GJ.

john

John (Crosley)

Thanks, Hans-Peter

You say 'nicely timed'.

In reality one takes a photo of a bunch of kids running, looks especially to capture a group maybe here with 'good spacing', then looks very carefully at the captures, to 'see' if there's anything 'special' there, as here.

I usually look (chimp) at all my decent captures and try to 'see' what I can, especially there is a way to re-take/re-shoot the scene.

Thanks again.

john

John (Crosley)