With the strongest short story known to man, as written by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s and a picture to go with it, taken at the local gothic cemetary, I hardly think I can generate any stronger emotions. This grave is from around the same time as Hemigway's words.
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By SharQ
Critique by Silver Fox
Good depth of field in the photo. It’s on a different angle than you normally see in a photograph and it works for this gravestone photograph although I would like to have seen the focus on the entire image instead of being mis-focused on the “aged” and focusing on the 9 months onwards part of the stone.
I like the colours as shown in your photograph, the mossy green of age and neglect, however, I don’t like to see the brightness of your [flash] just below the “a” and “g” on the stone, on the white chip.
The visual impact was very strong on some of the viewers, as one can read from the comments below, and I agree with them. I often spend a rainy afternoon in old graveyards reading from old stones and wondering what it would be like to lose a child who was only months old. Heart breaking, indeed . . .
Your photography shows good imagination and creativeness and I look forward to seeing more of your work in the coming weeks and months ahead.
One of the few shots that effectively portrays emotion without having a person in the shot. The title acts as an exclamation point to the shot. Nice work. 7
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