Saturday, March 24, 2007
Ready at St Justinians

Comments:
The title has echoes of those Terry Thomas films from the late '50s/early '60s but this seems a bit more workmanlike than that! I can't remember exactly what my first impression was on seeing this but it was lost when I established what the subject matter was. What an amazing way of storing wellies and how clean they are! If it weren't for the standing boots one could be looking at a load of people lined up in a morgue. Given that a Morris features, was this taken in Wales?! Anyway, a fun visual tickle.
Can't see the joins in this stitch...no hang on..
Why is Morris more concerned about his boots than the rest of the crew?
Thanks for the smile.
For non-UK residents/experts more of the left hand painting should be included so an understanding of whose boots these are can be gleaned?
Though the boot treading all seems identical it's interesting that some of the colours, fonts and logos on the boots are different.
I have problems with these repeating pattern shots. I seem to want a start and a finish and not have bits cut off. I'm trying to capture rows of bicycles but not having much luck in my eyes. But the humour in this shot shines above my personal desires - so I can live with this one.
Some interesting patterns within the boots and lots of verticals dominate. With all those verticals you would have thought that the lifeboat picture could be hanged a little straighter or are my eyes playing tricks on my brain?
Somewhat in the dark yet again -- I looked up the place and the "wellies" for fun. It does add to my viewing experience to know "whose boots these are".
The cut off of the repeating boots does not bother me -- the cut off of the pictures does a bit, though having the one on the left now seems more significant.
I took a series of these and I really needed my tripod which, as usual, was in the boot of my car back up the hill! Instead I used one of those mini-tripods and a lot of ingenuity. To have got the entire picture and avoided the 'junk' to the left and right needed a portrait format that normally causes my mini-tripod to fall over!
The picture does show all the lifeboat!
If it's a shot about patterns - which is how I read it - then knowing whose boots they are doesn't seem all that helpful. I think I might rather not have any of the context at all, which is another way of saying that the framed pictures distract my eye.
I think Akikana is on to something with his comment regarding repeating pattern shots; it's hard to break into and out of them in a way that's interesting. I often find myself using shallow DOF to accomplish this, but that's a stylistic choice that may not work for everyone.
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Why is Morris more concerned about his boots than the rest of the crew?
Thanks for the smile.
Though the boot treading all seems identical it's interesting that some of the colours, fonts and logos on the boots are different.
I have problems with these repeating pattern shots. I seem to want a start and a finish and not have bits cut off. I'm trying to capture rows of bicycles but not having much luck in my eyes. But the humour in this shot shines above my personal desires - so I can live with this one.
Some interesting patterns within the boots and lots of verticals dominate. With all those verticals you would have thought that the lifeboat picture could be hanged a little straighter or are my eyes playing tricks on my brain?
The cut off of the repeating boots does not bother me -- the cut off of the pictures does a bit, though having the one on the left now seems more significant.
The picture does show all the lifeboat!
I think Akikana is on to something with his comment regarding repeating pattern shots; it's hard to break into and out of them in a way that's interesting. I often find myself using shallow DOF to accomplish this, but that's a stylistic choice that may not work for everyone.
