Critiques

bundor (88) 2004-11-21 4:01

Also could be called, perhaps, leaning away from modernity - standing out of the way of the rush of wealth...

A very powerful picture Sohrab.

The scratches: I recall living in China in the past, people used to complain that the apples were bruised. To which I would reply: "you can expect care for apples when people are not bruised." The scratches add realistic noise.

thanks Sohrab. But where does India go then? Where should we be discussing that? Should we form a village to debate and grow our minds at www.nabuur.com ? I spend some time there. They may welcome an approach...

best wishes

Dennis

bundor (88) 2004-11-20 23:19

I also think that the original picture, with grass and flowers, perspectives of nature, add to the picture.
Noting Sohrab's comment, Gandhi's influence grows like the daisies up through the cracks of many places. The views presented here, in relation to a very troubled Aboriginal community in Australia, certainly influenced me recently:
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1186063.htm

bundor (88) 2004-11-19 23:10

Should perhaps be two points also for the commentary. Thanks for all the excellent accounts of the photos.

This photograph, it seems to me, is especially successful because of the mistiness which has to reflect all my perceptions of Ireland and also the shift in light on the sea, from one side to the other. Without that shift in light, it would be a mere postcard.

bundor (88) 2004-11-18 18:20

Not sure why no one else has commented on this picture, so I will, also in appreciation of your other photos, which I have only just seen, having been away from Trekearth for a time.

This seems a very successful picture to me, for a number of reasons. You can see the different lives in the different heads, and they look just like kids outside school here.

Also you can actually hear the different conversations. The light-dark [chiaro-scuro] increases that effect. The fact that the specs are broken and off and the girl looks suggests a hard day ended in the brain works!

I had taken my camera to our local school, walking next door in my rough garden clothes, to take pictures for this submission http://www.aplaceof.info/tomerong/041103traffic.htm and suddenly the school principal came running out, greatly relieved to find it was me - someone had reported that a dirty old man was taking pictures of children! :-)

Regards

Dennis

bundor (88) 2004-11-18 18:01

One very important thing when trying to watch birds is to dress in dull colours. If you wear brown and grey and avoid white and red and yellow, you will cause much less disturbance.

I don't know how to score this properly, Gae, it's a good photo, but the sparrow is an introduced pest in Eastern Australia, shot [with gun, not camera] on sight if it crosses the desert to Western Australia. But it's a bird, and it's alive and not hunted so far this year in Italy, so that's good news! :-)

bundor (88) 2004-11-04 19:07

Scusarmi, sono le due e cinquanta quattro! :-)

bundor (88) 2004-11-02 16:37

Sorriso... poi rido! Per quanti giorni ha dovuto negoziare cogli abitanti per organizzarle cosi?

bundor (88) 2004-10-13 2:26

I like the blurry fence! I vote you stay in the car, keep driving! I think taking a picture of what you see the way you see, in a rush, is best. As in, "oh wow, did you see that!" Makes people sit up.
:-)

bundor (88) 2004-10-11 19:40

I would not change any aspect of this photo. It is classic clapox, but at a very high level. Not finding pattern in human artifacts this time, but in nature. The combination of textures and patterns is startling. Do not be upset by the way Claudio arranges things for the eye. The arrangement is meant to provide a jolt - and also a delight. Waves in the sea, waves in the vineyard, great crashing red-leaf threats on either side of the vineyard. The peach tree top-left to balance the sea top-right, the 'macro' view of the grape leaves at the bottom. And just in case you didn't know this was la bell'Italia, upthrust hands of the olive... che meraviglia!

bundor (88) 2004-10-10 18:39

Aha, this is why you thought my picture was taken in the evening, because I had all the waves tidy and the grass tidy and the sky tidy and my hair combed. It is very very obvious that you have had all day, Tavo, to sweep the road, to comb the fields (you left a curvy bit in the middle there, by the way). I am glad there is still some elegant baldness in the mountains, which are not entirely clothed in velvet revolutionary leafiness.
It's actually a very nice composition, with the line of the road and hay mowing and the line of the shadowy hill, moving to a perspective focus to the left, arrested by the tree and the buildings which are nonetheless in harmony with that perspective.
Some critic is going to chop off that lovely fluffy sky in a workshop and tell you blue sky has no place in a darkroom, but I will point out to him, before he does that, that you in fact waited all day for just those clouds and for the clouds you can't see, which you mercifully have not included, to so nicely shadow the nearer hills, providing contrast, indeed, providing counterpoint, for the light on the stubble field and in the sky. Well done!