This is a terrific photograph that does my favourite thing concerning cameras ... it thumbs its nose at boring bloody photography and instead celebrates the joy of the photograph. It's a photograph all about photographs. A simple thought that almost no gear-laden Serious Photographer would have, and it's expressed with clarity and wit. Who could ask for anything more?
Of course I see that the foreground lady has a camera.
I remember all those family photographs of people standing awkwardly by the car, with the sun correctly placed back over the photographer's shoulder. Your photograph pays tribute to all those wonderful snaps in a way I've never seen before, never even thought of before. If this were one of those DPC Art challenges and I were a jurist, I'd fight to have this awarded first place, and suffer no argument to the contrary. This is a great piece of contemporary art, and I hope it will attract the attention it deserves from voters and commenters. But alas, I doubt that it will.
It's my equal top pick and so I must now curse you with the Order of the Thumb. 10. Thank you.
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