Twenty-five years ago today, John Lennon was cut down on his Manhattan doorstep. Across the street in Central Park, a public garden in Lennon's memory called Strawberry Fields holds a mosaic containing a single word -- Imagine. Tonight, hundreds of people from all over the world gathered here to celebrate the man and the mythology.
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Wow, there are two of these, bet you didn't think that would happen, at any rate I think this is a great interpretation of this challenge. Wish the two people in front were not in the field.
This is an photo of interest in regards to photojournalism -documenting events. My critique is that the scene is way to busy as that there are tooooo many elements present that the eye does not have a main subject dominating the scene for us to train our attention on. There are numerous photos of John Lennon, flowers, candles a person's pants and elbow visible on the left hand side, a camera visible on the right hand side, etc. It comes off too much like a quick snapshot. Training the composition to focus on a few objects in the scene would greatly strengthen the visual and emotional impact of the photo - say a tighter focus on John Lennon's face on the center and the words imagine is one suggestion. Another is if you were positioned at a different angle such that when that person in the background was placing that lighted candle down next to the words "Imagine" would be another (visually and emotionally this would be a great photo for it says in a visual message that his words and hope for a better world has not died out - the flame still burns brightly as does his memory)
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