originally I was going to delete this image but then I realized that I actually really dug the retro vibe it accidentally had and now I've decided that it's one of my favourite recent shots. Funny how that can happen sometimes.
Monday, May 31
The Summer of '74
originally I was going to delete this image but then I realized that I actually really dug the retro vibe it accidentally had and now I've decided that it's one of my favourite recent shots. Funny how that can happen sometimes.
9 dirty hippies blowing your mind:
looooooooove this shot! beattiful colours!! ya need to reposition it a tad, tho -- feels like the horizon leans to the right a smidge.
you're right!...I tried to not touch this one very much to sort of preserve the "mom's photo album" quality of it...it was kind of a fluke overall... was trying to catch those seagulls hand held...HA... good luck at that (well maybe it was good luck since a straight shot of them would have actually been pretty boring!)
Just for you I will straighten this out and see what difference it makes!
much better!! man, i love that colour conbination of sea-foam green and sandy beige!! really love this pic.
I do too! I rarely LOVE any of my own photos. But yeah, this one really struck me as so accidentally "30 years old". Makes me want to start trying to make ALL my photos look this way... but of course that probably won't work out if I try too hard.
P.S. if you have any use for this image, consider it yours, in part to make up for the grand failure the record release images were...I can send you a higher res version...I think the one on here is only about 75 - 80 KB.
ah, you're very kind. it's a shame the seagull is actually a tad blurry (how could he not be?). dunno what i could use this for but i will let you know!
oh, and got yr v/m about dinner -- sorry we missed it, we were grocery shopping as chance would have it.
btw, looking at some of the pics you put up on facebook ... they make me think ... i dunno, i guess maybe it is just me but i find the voyeuristic practice of taking strangers pictures when they don't know you are ... it's kind of a violation of trust and privacy, isn't it? i mean, you're stealing someone else's private moment to capture your own ... it feels kind of invasive ...
i know that this is the whole thrill of voyeurism in the first-place, and i guess i get it but i am curious to know what your thoughts are on the matter: do you think that when you are in public you have to accept that anyone may at any time choose to take a picture of you and they are perfectly entitled to? or, do you in fact agree that voyouerism is on the invasive/impolite side but that the thrill of it and the chance to capture something on film that simply cannot be staged or faked outweighs that?
i am genuinely curious.
I don't feel like I'm violating anything...there's no trust and privacy established and if you are standing and posing for pictures in a public place there is always the chance that you'll end up in someone else's photos anyway. I imagine I may be in someone's pictures somewhere...I really don't care either way. I don't really look at it as the thrill of voyeurism; I find it interesting to take photos of people taking photos and it's also fun to photograph people who are "over posing" for the camera of their friends.
interesting. you know that i HATE having my picture taken so the idea of some stranger taking it unbeknownst to me is ... well, i guess i just don't like the idea.
but i AM genuinely interested in the motivation for such -- idea of voyeurism, not as a practice of course but as human behaviour. i think what you are doing absolutely constitutes as voyeurism, and you have taken lots of pictures of strangers and commented on them in your blog. it's not your main focus in photography, but it is a small part of it that crops up now and again.
i was hoping there may be more of a juicy discussion here about the idea of perception and identity and social guises but if you say that you don't consider it voyeurism then that's that then.
Yeah, I mean I just really don't ever think of it that way.
When I think about photography in newspapers or magazines etc. that focus on the world, well, they are FILLED with photos that are little snippets of other people's realities...be it war, celebration..whatever. I think the majority of photos in magazines such as Time or National Geographic or even people's exotic travel photos are of this nature.
Now given that, I would never feel comfortable taking photos of people in pain or some such thing. But photographing people in the act of photographing or being photographed... well that is just interesting to me.
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