Frank, your views on this image are interesting, I understand where you're coming from & I appreciate your elaboration. However it doesn't change my view of the image (not that it was supposed to). The image does nothing for me - it doesn't need to. I'm glad it means something to you. If I felt like you do I would print it up and hang it in a place to memorialize the view you've shared.
Keep on capturing what interests you. Kenneth Waller -----Original Message----- From: "E.R.N. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PAW: Chinatown Abstract frank theriault wrote: > Okay, it's blurry. It's not a motion blur like a car, scooter, bike > >or even a pedestrian going by. It's me, the photographer, moving past >the scene that's causing the blur. When I'm walking through a crowded >city, I don't make connections with most of those that I pass. I only >see them peripherally. I walk by them without noticing them, and they >don't notice me - as the fellow in the foreground of the photo seems >to be unaware of my presence. > >So, to me, this is about the disconnect of living and moving about in >a big city. The irony that among millions of people, we actually have >fewer close relationships - we walk around with blinders on, oblivious >to what's around us. It's as if we have sensory overload, and it all >becomes a blur - just like the picture. Have you ever felt that way? >I have. > >The reason I don't like talking like that, is that I hate sounding >overblown, pretentious and all artsy about it - especially since it >really is just a blurry photo. I didn't intend for it to come out >that way, it just did, and I saw the neg, and I thought it looked >pretty cool. I wouldn't say it was an accident, but I wouldn't say >that I took the photo thinking it would look that way, either. > Hey Frank -- Not that you were directly addressing me, but thanks for sharing your views. They were very clear without sounding in any way overblown, pretentious or even artsy. Sounded like the genuine reflections of an intelligent person. Also I think that comment of yours is actually something worth expressing in words. ERNR ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
