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journeylady
Location: Kitchener Gender: Female Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | What would you do with this? < Reply # 3 on 3/2/2007 5:21 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| It's a tragedy. It's exactly like a greek tragedy. We should only be Greeks. |
| Mowgli-dog
Location: Vancouver, B.C. Gender: Male Total Likes: 31 likes
| | | | A couple from Vancouvers Downtown East Side < Reply # 12 on 3/24/2007 9:28 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Work has me in this neighborhood quite often, so I started to carry a camera around whenever possible, problem is that I never seem to remember that I've got it with me. A drug addicts abandoned room at the Roosevelt Hotel. One is content to live in abject squalor when their one and only goal in life is to do more drugs: Every time I leave the Downtown East Side I am thankful that I never tried hard drugs. I try to imagine these people as somehow normal at some point in time - it's difficult to do. On a lighter note, but not really, the mentally ill turned lose on the street can sometimes be very entertaining. I know this man's first name, but he prefers to be referred to by his "code name" of Agent Condor. In his delusion, he is a secret FBI/Police agent, he just hasn't been paid yet. He's one of my favorites, and I try to look out for him when I can:
| "We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -George Orwell Rest in peace, my pal Mowgli - the best dog there ever was. |
| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: A couple from Vancouvers Downtown East Side < Reply # 14 on 3/24/2007 7:52 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by EXElent uuuuuuuu, what camera is that on the table in the first picture?
| An excellent question. Anyway that place looks almost better than what the dorm rooms of some people I know used to look like in the first year of college!
| Yep. Or any of the stoner's basement pads I once knew, etc. The second shot of the table doesn't work so well with me. It's a dirty cluttered table. The first shot is way better. As for the Condor shot try and get closer and fill the frame with that great character; something like this:
| I'm going to disagree here. The background provides the all important context, and situates the subject within a specific place and time. Otherwise, it's a portrait, which is fine, but it's a person smiling, and not a more intense person on the DTES of Vancouver whatever, etc.
[last edit 3/24/2007 7:54 PM by KublaKhan - edited 1 times]
| "The truth is knowable. But probably not, ever, incontrovertible." --Don DeLillo PICS |
| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: A couple from Vancouvers Downtown East Side < Reply # 18 on 3/26/2007 1:35 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by EXElent I think his face expresses his mental condition very well and that's what I like to capture and see
| If that's the case, then make it a very tight crop, and exclude everything BUT his fact. Frame the shot around his face. But I still disagree with cropping this shot at all. There he is, caught between two places: a crowd of people on one side, and a darkened door on the other. THAT's his worl, and excluding a contextual reference dilutes the impact of the picture. My $.02.
| "The truth is knowable. But probably not, ever, incontrovertible." --Don DeLillo PICS |
| tron_2.0
Location: Ohio Gender: Male Total Likes: 7 likes
| | | | | cliff during a storm < Reply # 19 on 4/4/2007 12:09 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| [quote][i]Posted by yokes[/i] I find your lack of coziness.... disturbing. [/quote] |
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