Monday, October 23, 2006
passing
Comments:
I love the warmth in this image both in colour and in emotion. I get a hint of her beauty as she goes about her life. The grafitti is passed by unseen and without without influence. She looks absorbed.
The moment is good. The light is excellent (just enough detail in the face). The colours work.
I like the universality of this. I am left with a suggestion of place and time. Even the person is silhouetted enough to stand for people in general.
Another of your continuum series?
Auspicious - I think your comment goes most of the way to explaining why this is not a continuum picture! And Rex's.
Lovely image John. Gentle, warm light...soft shadows...detail in the woman's face...interesting texture on the wall....
Symbolically I see a touch of, perhaps, unhappiness as the woman passes from the light to the dark. A statement of a changing life? It could be. Whether that's intentional or not is another, perhaps unimportant, matter.
Thanks Johnjo. I think that it is entirely feasible to read what you say into the picture but it is a blank page editorially. I tend to take shots of people without any preconceived idea of their mood, unless it is very obvious. That the people of Bratislava are still adjusting to the shock of both '89 and the subsequent split from the Czech Republic does mean that life is hard for many but, symbolically, the walk should be from dark to light! Who is to say which direction is correct for her?
This has a good range of contrast from top right tapering off to the bottom left. All the action seems a little compressed in the middle of the picture though. And the illusion of the person's head 'banging' in to the downward ridge of the raised section of wall is a little distracting. The flow in the hair and the general smoothness around the person's body implies movement - so I can't try and convince my eyes/brain that the person is merely resting their head in silent contemplation.
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I like the universality of this. I am left with a suggestion of place and time. Even the person is silhouetted enough to stand for people in general.
Another of your continuum series?
Symbolically I see a touch of, perhaps, unhappiness as the woman passes from the light to the dark. A statement of a changing life? It could be. Whether that's intentional or not is another, perhaps unimportant, matter.