Saturday, February 10, 2007
Eye in the Sky (03360031)
I wish I gone a touch wider with this photo, but when I took it I wasn't thinking about how much like an eye this thing looks.
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Yes you cut off the eyelashes!
However still well seen, good fun and eligible for a self-portrait competition!
Really interesting view -- an eye, yes, but also it's like something from a science fiction movie with you starring as a spaceman. I have no idea what that actually is.
I guess it is one of those security mitrrors that is intended to reveal 'muggers' hiding behind the pillars.
Allegorical for sure. Although whether as a metaphor for space or a comment on the growing role of surveillance I wouldn't like to say. The latter is stronger in my mind. I suspect that you got the best composition here and that any wider and the effect of an eye would start to dissipate. I like the idea of getting lost in both the distances and the hidden spaces created in the reflection. I also think that it would work without a figure (although that would be difficult to achieve as the photographer!) and with some anomymous figure approaching/departing. Many possibilities. Here you have settled on the ironic by looking back at the 'eye'. Great tones.
This is indeed an anti-mugging mirror, but when taking this shot I was thinking less about the tough teenagers that usually linger around this scene and more about the likelihood of getting myself arrested for photographing a surveilance device. Times have changed.
the likelihood of getting myself arrested for photographing a surveilance device
Now there is a thought that I'm familiar with.
There is loads to look at here. I actually like the cropping - although it is good that it is both top an bottom - as this emphasises the role of the mirror as a mirror and not as a subject in its own right. You've got the scene behind you and to your left perfectly, and the tones, as somebody has already said, are great.
A photo to enjoy for the fun of it, or to read lots into depending on mood.
I see this shot and think Statue of Liberty for some reason - perhaps its the crown around the head similarity.
Shame the eyelashes are cut off but nonetheless a pleasing self-portrait with a rather sinister means of projecting yourself from. The arches behind you enforce a monster like image in my mind - they resemble jagged teeth.
I'm sure someone in the booth behind this could do a screen grab of the video recording you taking the shot...any chance?
"screen grab of the video recording you taking the shot...any chance?"
Pretty sure that the camera's are dumb robots, as are most in the US. But wouldn't that make a cool pair of images to hang?
When I'm feeling lucky, I'll go back and do another without cutting off the eyelashes just to see what it looks like.
The anti-pigeon spikes do look a bit like the Statue of Liberty's crown, which just adds another layer of irony.
One blink and it will crush you Matt! There's something very 1950's scifi about this image...are you holding a camera or shielding your face from certain doom?
Again, excellent tones...a very strong feeling of chrome.
Johnjo, now I can't walk past this thing with out thinking that it's going to blink and somehow bite me in half ;-)
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However still well seen, good fun and eligible for a self-portrait competition!
Now there is a thought that I'm familiar with.
There is loads to look at here. I actually like the cropping - although it is good that it is both top an bottom - as this emphasises the role of the mirror as a mirror and not as a subject in its own right. You've got the scene behind you and to your left perfectly, and the tones, as somebody has already said, are great.
A photo to enjoy for the fun of it, or to read lots into depending on mood.
Shame the eyelashes are cut off but nonetheless a pleasing self-portrait with a rather sinister means of projecting yourself from. The arches behind you enforce a monster like image in my mind - they resemble jagged teeth.
I'm sure someone in the booth behind this could do a screen grab of the video recording you taking the shot...any chance?
Pretty sure that the camera's are dumb robots, as are most in the US. But wouldn't that make a cool pair of images to hang?
When I'm feeling lucky, I'll go back and do another without cutting off the eyelashes just to see what it looks like.
Again, excellent tones...a very strong feeling of chrome.