Corner

To me it's playful in colors and shape. I like how you manage to put details in kind of abstract level, creating a new picture that works excellent.

 

6/6

 

From a graffiti project. I will exhibit some of them in November/December.

 

This one made the final cut despite a poor initial response on Photo.Net. I wonder if

that response was a fluke or if the image will bomb again.

 

I made a presentation showing the final selection. There's a link to it on my Photo.Net

bio page.

Keep the horizon straight!

 

In this case the horizon is the patch of greenshrubbery at the base of the wall.

haven't you suppressed the light a li'l too much, losing vibrancy... and i agree with Sue about straightening it... perhaps...

I was going through your presentation and this is the one that first caught my eye. Maybe I missed it when you first posted...or did I already comment? Anyway, this really works for me as art depicting art. Some of the images seem a "recording" (nothing wrong with that btw) while this seems an "interpretation". The angles, colors and dof are really terrific here. Very unusual and well done, geometrically speaking. Congrats on the show!

Great to hear from you! This seems to be a perennial issue. Here's an excerpt from the introduction to the book and the presentation on Photo.Net (see my bio page for link).

 

Alex Morris, who runs Carhartt in Manchester, helped me select images based on his experience making, studying, and supporting graffiti. The dialogue blended his graffiti-oriented perspective with my photographic approach. Over the months of discussion, the balance between these two poles shifted gradually but with glacial inevitability. At first, we wanted something distinctly different, distinctly photographic. The Granada image of a woman, shot upwards and almost into the sun, exemplifies this preference. As time passed, photographic artifice seemed progressively less necessary. The shift affected my ongoing work as well. In the exhibition, seven images are relatively straightforward documentary photographs; the remaining six employing prominent photographic artifice (though the boundary is a bit hazy).

I see that in the work. There is a linearity, yet the images are quite different from one another....I guess like chapters in a book...a sum of its parts. I would imagine the process (while maybe frustrating during) would be a terrific learning experience to really define what it is that you do and how you perceive. Please keep us posted as to your shows feedback.

Also, digital makes it easier to take a lot of images of everything. I eventually get tired, though...

switch view finder eyes (>8

Superb - a seven from me.

this was definitely one of my favourites.  it didn't make it into the exhibition, but i think it made it into the book.  thanks tony.  best, j

I agree with Tony's  rating. A really eye-catching image.

I should have made it rateable then!  Thanks Joscelyn.  best, jamie

A follow-up-comment  listing brought me back here and I still have a very high opinion of this image and would rate it a seven again. The image is sitting at a 5.83 average so my congrats are in order.

my goodness.  I had forgotten.  Thanks so much for pointing that out, and for your generous comment.  best, jamie