You're an excellent photographer and it's always a delight to see how you present the world that you photograph. This, of course, is worth far more than the score. It is also interesting to read the almost polarly opposed comments. I don't think this indicates some are "wrong" but that many here are on different parts of the journey, if that makes sense. Really a wonderful photograph - a great example of how attention to the technicals (correct exposure, for instance) can allow breaking the rules (composition, for instance) to very good effect.
I don´t remember having so many wonderful comments on such a low scoring image. I know this is not a typical DPC photo, strange in many ways, but I had to find out how it would be received. And despite the low scoring of 5.25 I am very satisfied with the result. Especially the comments from viewers who really looked into the image and found the story. Thanks to you all and I am honored of the Order of the Thumb from ubique.
For me this was the top photo in the challenge. In to my favourites so that I can find it again - one that I certainly will want to revisit again and again.
For me this was the top photo in the challenge. In to my favourites so that I can find it again - one that I certainly will want to revisit again and again.
A photo with real impact. As a viewer I am challenged by the narrative presented - the child, so close to the photographer, but in a world quite separate; the adults at the steps who at first seem incidental but are actually quite integral to the picture as a whole; the rail that acts as a very effective barrier between the child and the others. The sense of isolation, solitariness, inability to understand the adult world is palpable. I think that I am sometimes that child.
This is a brilliant photograph because the very unusual point-of-view and composition puts the focal point of the image outside the frame. We don't see it of course, but it is most definitely part of the photograph. I think that is a rare and fabulous achievement, and well worth the full 10. And the Order of the Thumb for you too:
Perhaps they'd thought it all in good fun, perhaps they simply chose not to notice the look on the face, or to hear the desperation in the pleas to stop, to not throw anymore. Perhaps they just got carried away.
Perhaps, but sometimes the games of winter can turn ugly before you know it, and sometimes one goes away with a tear on the cheek and feeling more than just the pain of stinging ice on their skin.
Sometimes it can be so hard to navigate the landscape that is childhood, especially when that landscape can be cold and unforgiving.
I'll be interested in seeing how this scores for you.
I really like how the diagonal of the fence cuts the child off from the other children grouped together... That and the slightly worried look on the child's face really makes this a remarkably telling image to me. The wonderful color and processing is just 'icing on the cake'. :)
Jeez how long was that kid out there? he looks a light shade of blue lol. j/k great shot :) People in the background are a little distracting.. think it could have been a little better composed/cropped. 6
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