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'The Metro Coach'


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Photos are where you find them; even when you point your camera downward

during a Metro ride. Your ratings, critiques and observations are invited and

most welcome. If you rate harshly, very critically, or wish to make a remark,

please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy!

john

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Long ago I decided that Photo.net did not have to be pretentious or a place of great seriousness all the time.


I decided to post what I might, no matter what the consequences, and I have always posted whatever I have chosen since the start.

 

Who said there can't be a touch of insouciance in what we take a post?  A touch of humor can be part of photography at times too.

 

;~))

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

 

(and for Americans, happy Turkey Day).

 

 

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I like the concept here, John. You have captured, in a simple image, the feel and reality of the daily commute. There is also a wonderful sexual tension in this arrangement.

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That you don't have to be a beautiful and shapely young female, 18-24, to be the subject of an interesting photo when you spead your thighs.   ;~)))

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

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All this comes from checking my focus and exposure while seated. 


I'm always alert to the chance of taking a photo, but this takes the cake!

 

Thanks for your comment.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

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I'm flattered; thank you sir.


I think it takes more guts than anything to post something so 'different' on such a service with such 'serious' intentions, or at least in the eyes of most people.

 

I think otherwise at least part of the time.

 

And I'm always looking for an interesting shot.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

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I don't think you've lost your sense of delight in the unexpected and sometimes the absurdities of life, same as I.

 

I'm always on the lookout for a photo, even when testing 'live view' on a camera and thus looking through a lens on my lap, which is how I ended up 'seeing' this.

 

Best of health and good wishes to you, Drew.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

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Love this one! You have captured a perfect moment in everyday life! This shot can be both funny and serious depending on where one wants to go with it but like it was mentioned before, I also see the sexual tension or at least the implication of it - he's open, she's closed. Wonderful photo! Thank you for sharing. :)

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This photo has been somewhat of a surprise hit with critics.  I had some trepidation prior to posting it, feeling it would be shot down in a hail of 3's as being too self-indulgent.

 

I guess I was wrong.

 

Sometimes I just see things and sometimes I just captures things that other people disregard as inconsequential, or see relationships in things that others would pass by.

 

I think there's little doubt that you can't think of another photographer on this service beside me who would have taken this photo?  Right?  But I take all kinds of photos, as the next two postings show.

 

As to ambiguity; that's healthy in a photo, and helpful to please the art-minded.  A little sexual tension doesn't hurt either. I saw it, but didn't mention it because it's not something I felt personally, but intellectually, it's there.

 

Cartier-Bresson took one of his all-time great photos (or several) in which one part of a photo (a top for instance) fit neatly into another, discrete, part.  The couple eating in the Soviet Union at their car (picknicking) while observing a church/monastery where the monastery spire fits into a space between the couple and the car (if the top of the photo were inverted) comes to mind, provided I've recalled it correctly.

 

I just took seven Cartier-Bresson books back to the library so they're not available for reference, and that photo, an amazing one, was pretty obscure for some unknown reason.

 

I'm glad this photo tickled your sensibilities, Trisha.  I hope to take and post many more that do the same, but in entirely other ways.  Perhaps I've already taken them and have not found them in my 1/2 million to million captures which I go over periodically as well as shooting almost daily.

 

Best to you.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

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A refreshing change. I'm grinning with pleasure and amusement.

"To me this photo stands for the proposition
"That you don't have to be a beautiful and shapely young female, 18-24, to be the subject of an interesting photo when you spead your thighs. ;~)))"

Couldn't agree more.

And I don't find it "self-indulgent".

I've put a lot of thought into the titling of photographs and have now firmly adopted the policy of leaving almost all I post on PN untitled. If I wish my words to speak, I write. "Footsie" is like shoving my thoughts into my face. You take great photographs, John. Do allow them to speak freely...

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