"'Dexter' Returns?"

Pay television audiences took serial killer with a code 'Dexter' to heart

even as he chopped up his victims and sank them off Florida -- all

deserving victims, and the last we saw as the series ended was 'Dexter'

'reformed' working in a lumber freight yard in the rainy Northwestern U.S.

Has he now turned up in Ukraine, and has he abandoned his code of

only killing the bad guys? Or does he have a copycat or analogue in

Ukraine, suggests this photo taken recently. Your ratings, critiques, and

observations are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly, very

critically, or wish to make an observation, please submit a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge to

help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! (or cringe if you feel the

urge) john

Life in the street can be 'fun'  -- just for the delight in isolating the 'surreal', as you noted, from the otherwise mundane, day-to-day stuff, picking it out with a lens, isolating it, so it has a new meaning, and doing all that in (I would estimate here) less than a second and a half from seeing this guy to the capture -- almost a blur, as he was to disappear within the next fraction of a second.

I have 50 to 100 shots worked up and good enough for posting for every one I do post - the well here is extremely deep -- but it's always a guess which ones will appeal to viewers whose tastes remain somewhat of a mystery to me after all these years.

Thanks for the astute analysis and compliment

john

John (Crosley)

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This is a full frame capture -- no cropping at all, taken with from a near distance with a short zoom tele (a tele with a great extension available but at its 'short end').

And, as noted above, this was all visualized, (seen) framed, and taken (alone with other frames) in less than a second and a half or so.  

The color version is worth posting in its own right -- the colors are very strong and work together.

john

John (Crosley)

John, I hope you will post the color version, I would love to see it as well. I'm liking that lone hanger on the ground in front of "Dexter"; it contributes to the atmosphere. There's a "matter-of-fact-ness" of the man carting off torsos that goes along with the TV show, as I recall (it's been a couple years since I saw an episode. Anyway, another wonderful street shot.

Amy

I shot this in a split second, but made in that ultra short time some very conscious decisions.

One decision was that this was a Dexter-like situation, so I kept that analogy right up to posting, and that accounts for my critique request.

But consider this in another light.

This is not necessarily a 'man' with torsos, but one torso with six (count them) other torsos, for a total of seven torsos.  I made the decision to leave the man headless so he'd be a torso, and in part to leave room in the limited frame space to include the two bottom torsos, held by hangars in his very strained hand.

There is today in the forums a very significant and long thread on 'intentions' in 'street shooting' which asks whether things such as my decision above are something we shooters find later when we edit, or if they occur before we shoot (I saw it as I was shooting).

I want you to know that sometimes I see before or during my shooting some compositional devices, and I plan for them -- when I can see them.  I can't always, or in rapid fire shooting, I cannot always see or even recognize them and only see them in the editing process -- if that.

The remainder are pointed out by my wonderful critics in posted critiques such as yours, Jack's (above and elsewhere) and many others over the years numbering thousands over the past decade, pointing out wonderful, hitherto unrecognized and unseen compositional devices I've included and other points of interest in my photos that I easily might have passed over.

I read recently a remark: 'One supposes that since photos are taken instantaneously that the critiques should be instantaneous too; that is a fallacy" (paraphrased), and it's so true.

I rely heavily on critiques here, and find them wonderful and a guide for when I go out shooting; they inform my shooting together with my long experience as well as viewer reaction plus of course subject reaction where it is relevant.

Best to you, Amy, and thanks for a wonderful critique -- again.

john

John (Crosley)

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I see you picked out another choice of mine for 'interesting photo.  Our tastes seem to run alike.

Glad to see you back.  Hope you are well.

john

John (Crosley)