Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Norfolk Line
Taken onboard the new ferry on the way to Dunkerque.
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A baleful eye or an updated Inca icon (a rising sun?) or a modernist porthole. It's quite difficult to pin down the meaning of this. On the face of it this is a clean lined capture of the patently new and shiny interior decor with a lovely capture of the colouring; and the contributing bits and pieces expressing what the decorator/owner wanted to put on show. But one has the feeling that there is a bit more to it and my brain is not clicking. Should it? There is also the lefthand edge where a baby pickled in formaldehyde peers out! Maybe the photo is holding up a mirror to our desires to play with materials, with attendant borrowings from the world around us: vide the sharks' fins holding up the rail!
That is one clean ferry!
I like the colours, but not the composition. I guess that could sound rude, given that you have probably cropped this and therefore thought about the composition a lot. However, it leaves me looking for something which isn't there. Which results in me noticing irrelevant details, even if not quite John E's pickled baby.
I guess it is a picture that looks like it wants to be symmetrical but which isn't - the seat was curved I think.
I like the near symmetry of this picture and the colours are appealing. There is an intrusion on the far left which does spoil the pattern effect and the white lines are in a different position to the right hand side, although the latter appeals to me as it adds more to the picture. I think it needs something more to hold the eye.
I did set out to enhance the symmetry, because a liked it, but stopped short of getting rid of the next 'porthole'.
The image had to be 'perspective' shifted to get the symmetry and that does make the sofa look odd.
Also a point of interest was the reflection and the glimpse of the other side.
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I like the colours, but not the composition. I guess that could sound rude, given that you have probably cropped this and therefore thought about the composition a lot. However, it leaves me looking for something which isn't there. Which results in me noticing irrelevant details, even if not quite John E's pickled baby.
I guess it is a picture that looks like it wants to be symmetrical but which isn't - the seat was curved I think.
The image had to be 'perspective' shifted to get the symmetry and that does make the sofa look odd.
Also a point of interest was the reflection and the glimpse of the other side.