'How About a Nice Juicy Cheeseburger?'

'Chisburger, chisburger, chisburger, Pepsi, Pepsi, chisburger, went

the old Saturday Night routine with John Belush as a Greek restaurant

counter person, taking orders. (Chisburger and Pepsi were the only

things on the menu; 'No Coke, Pepsi!') This man is the sort

who 'loves' cheeseburgers, apparently the juicier the better.

Captured at a LA restaurant. Your ratings and critiques are invited

and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, please

submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your superior

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! John

On the contrary, consider whether you've ever seen such a photo depicted as this, and whether I did so in an 'original' and 'aesthetic' manner.

 

Aesthetics under the guidelines also can mean 'impact' as well as just meaning 'pretty' or 'beautiful'. I am seldom guided by solely trying to take 'pretty' or 'beautiful' photos in and of themselves but want a photo often that has that 'impact'. (If in doubt, read please the rating guidelines;~))

 

Consider this, when I reviewed my review screen, I was exceedingly happy to see this captured just as I had hoped -- the string of cheese and mayonnaise and all.

 

In a way, this photo is iconic for a certain portion of american culture and/or gastronomy, isn't it -- in short a prototype of the American hamburger customer.

 

A German friend of mine, when being shown a Sausage egg McMuffin in which the sausage is shaped into a 'patty' said to me: 'You Americans will make a hamburger out of anything.' And she apparently was nearly correct.

 

Let me know, however, your feelings on the subject.

 

I'm open to reading all views.

 

John (Crosley)

Totaly in accord with you john, very well done.Not the same kind of beautifull like a little red flower but this is a good reflect of our society. 6/7 Guillaume L. ...sorry if my english is not so well but i'm french ;)

Guillaume, now why is it that a man named after beef (Leboeuf), is a man who liked this photo of ground beef and a hungry eater? Is there more to a name, perhaps?

 

In all seriousness, one of the feature of Photo.net (and moreso in the greater past than presently, or maybe more so for other sthan me, now that I've made some sort of reputation) was that raters sometimes rate against a photo because they're disgusted with what it depicts rather than on the impact of a photo.

 

A photo can be great, and bring forth feelings of utter disgust and upset.

 

Remember, Nick Ut's photo from Viet Nam of the fleeing napalmed girl, or Eddie Adam's photo of the Saigon police chief blowing the brains out of the suspected Viet Cong.

 

Both depicted events that were worthy of scorn, but they did it in a wonderful way that separated the photo and photographer with what was depicted.

 

And that's been my guiding light. While some photographers while away their time, looking for pretty colored fire hydrants and artistic pipe and wall colors, or an arrangement of brooms on a wall, for instance among today's captures shown by others, I look for people, often, and try to depict them in what has amounted to an infinite variety of actions and/or expressions.

 

Life will never be long enough for me to even more than sample this task, but I do like to do it; even if the photo is not technically stunning, as this, but merely is a depiction of a 'moment'.

 

So, kidding aside, I'm glad you saw 'merit' in this one.

 

(If truth be told, even if I knew it would get a string of 3/3s, I still would have posted it. I have so many photos, and my ratings are so stable anyway, that a few 3/3s won't hurt me, and I judge that the photo has merit enough to post, whether or not I'm interested in my (somewhat low) rates. Low rates may go with 'street' territory; other 'street' artists have left this service despite taking and posting wonderful photos, all in rebellion against low rates. I'll have none of that. There are some who tremendously enjoy my captures and I'd shoot for them alone if need be.

 

Thanks so much for letting me know your feelings.

 

John (Crosley)

A man enjoying his burger, what can be more "truthful" than that? Great timing on this as you captured the string of melted cheese between his mouth and the burger - a connecting point if you will.

he was being photographed, but he looks like a guy who would appreciate being appreciated.

 

He really attacked his burger. I saw that and waited for a second and third bite, from just behind and beside him, but from a good distance, and zoomed in on what I hoped might be interesting.

 

And was I ever rewarded; I never expected the cheese (or slobber) exactly like that; street is like that, sometimes you get even more than you bargained for.

 

John (Crosley)

I'm learning about the fleeting nature of street photography. Today I was walking in downtown San Francisco when I came upon a pandhandler sleeping in front of a store. The store window had a santa claus sitting on a lounge chair and looking at him. I thought about taking that shot but I was in a hurry. Later when I returned he was gone. A missed chance and a lesson learned.

With one or two cameras around my neck, I'd have had that shot.

 

No two ways about it.

 

That's how I get my shots.

 

Boy Scout like (be prepared!)

 

Valuable lesson, hunh?

 

John (Crosley)