'May I Take Your Order Please?'

This is a scene familiar to nearly every fast food patron -- the blank stare

of the order clerk asking for your burger order. Photo taken somewhere

in rural America. 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

Great image, you have captured the banality pefectly. I get the same strange feeling looking at this image as I do when I order. This is great street/documentation. Bravo

I haven't made it my mission to document banality, but just to document or photograph anything, any genre that interests me.

 

This I saw, and took this before I could explain it to myself. Perhaps out of the same boredom he shows, with so much clarity or expression. He is just plain bored. He's tired to see me, and he doesn't care if I know it.

 

I consider this one of my more incisive photos.

 

Congratulations for being one of those who can truly 'see' and cares to comment on such banality.

 

I'd give this one a prize for capturing 'banality' myself, if there were some sort of contest, but there might be others more worthy if there truly were a contest. Who knows what depths of banality man can stoop to?

 

;~))

 

'May I take your order please?'

 

'Would you like fries with that?'

 

'Can I interest you in a hot apple or cherry pie for dessert?'

 

Nah, too much work.

 

Anyway, it's Burger King and you get to 'have it your way' and all the little kiddies get to wear a cardboard crown.

 

It's all over, except in Australia where it was called Hungry Jack's last I was there -- same colors, same food, same logos, different name and initials, but no mistaking the chain - it was the exact same one.

 

Better burgers, though, than McDonald's.

 

Here's a trick to getting a decent burger in McDonald's. Ask them to cook it (or anything they serve you) fresh off the grill, or fry it in fat immediately, even if they lie and say 'it's just fried just this minute' -- it'll be a lie -- except in Europe where it really will be true.

 

Nice to see your well considered critique.

 

John (Crosley)

I do not think your camera did this. There is something wrong with your processing. There is no contrast; no whites.

Pls. put your glasses on...and clean them before that. Now you take a look..

Thank you ever so much.

 

I can hardly thank you enough.

 

John (Crosley)

"glasses"? Maybe so. I have MD and only one eye that still works and not that well. If you think vision is the problem glasses do not help. :-) , truely. On the other hand, I frequently have this same contrast problem with BW/digital or film->digital and sometimes so do others including you. I never experienced this in the darkroom except when I underdeveloped by mistake -and this is exactly how this photo looks (Ilford Delta in D76 for 5 minutes). I have many fotos that I cannot fix in fotoshop for photo.net albeit the negatives are good. I don't recall seeing so much of this problem in John's color -or other's. So I think it is a processing problem in BW with certain kinds of scenes that maybe sometimes cannot be corrected. The background of Those signs like "Joe's" Cup and the print "Joe" etc. and the wall should be white-white and stainless steel should really "pop" in BW with gorgous tones and reflections. This is why I suggest "processing". The real scene is not low contrast; it does not look like this; the camera did not see it this way. I'd like to see it in color jpg...... Yesterday I uploaded and posted "Woman On Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem 0208090207". The photo has the very same problems as John's foto here. The skin and background tones in my foto are way off and lacks contrast. Vladimir and John: If you took this burger king shot in parallel with BW film and developed properely and printed under a diffuser or condenser enlarger and compared you would throw away the digital......P.S. I am kind of sensitive about comments on my eyes. When you get older yours might not be any better.

Sorry, did not mean to offend you; it is just the problem I have, using 2 pair of glasses that are frequently dirty..if you don't have any health problems after 50, you are late..About the photo: I think that those letters you have mentioned behind the man are just out of focus, as they should be..

Thanks for answering. Perhaps you are correct or perhaps not. I think photos should have Ansel Adams type contrast regardless ( that's a word) of photo.net catagory. I like to see a balance of all of the zones. This is what pleases me. I cannot critique a photo based on what other people see even if I am all alone. I also think there is too much space on the left side and I would see cropped just to the left of "Joe" and leave that vertical line of the appliances as a frame. I did not rate I think the photo, and if I did, one rating has no effect on the average...Offended? I think I not offended. I just get frustrated (that's a word). John cannot be surprised because he knows that I am bedakdak (picky or sticky) about lighting and contrast. I am far past 50 but it seems like yesterday that I was teaching Leah to drive. My health is good, k'ninin-hara... I have no idea what Richard holds in his hand. I hope he is not wearing a vest.