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10/01/2007 08:36:57 PM |
| I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees the bird as the cow's escaping head . :) Nice work! |
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08/02/2007 06:31:03 PM |
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07/31/2007 04:24:54 AM |
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07/31/2007 01:07:52 AM |
I believe, Joe, that you have just been paid the ultimate compliment, and I thank Ed for pointing this one out. (Makes me smile, too, by the way. Simple as that, yet more than that, too.)
(Edited for spelling... i before e.... I know better)
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07/30/2007 12:46:05 PM |
I realised today that this is one of my three real favourite images on this site; three that I consider great works, in a universal sense: that means compared with every photograph I've ever seen.
To reply to Don's comment: it's precisely because you cannot rationalise, because even you cannot rationalise this image, that it is great. It goes beyond words, beyond the facility of words, and is therefore pure photography. How would one describe this to someone? You wouldn't, you'd have to just show them, no?
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07/28/2007 05:53:13 PM |
Originally posted by e301:
Oh this is proper damn photography. It is entirely normal, humdrum, absolutely the ordinary moment; and yet a simple sense of timing, good fortune (though it still requires skill to see it and publish it) or grace produces this, and that normality is suddenly the extreme. Beautiful stuff. |
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07/28/2007 02:59:32 PM |
| Oh this is proper damn photography. It is entirely normal, humdrum, absolutely the ordinary moment; and yet a simple sense of timing, good fortune (though it still requires skill to see it and publish it) or grace produces this, and that normality is suddenly the extreme. Beautiful stuff. |
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07/22/2007 03:49:50 PM |
| Classic! Impeccable timing :D |
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07/17/2007 11:07:32 AM |
I suffer from a DPC-related condition known as seeing-too-many-photographs. This makes me appreciate originality, but even originality can seem like a well-worn genre. I am susceptible to Leroy-syndrome, where I see a photo and say "oh this is an art shot" and my eyes glaze over. But that's what happens when I see a slick DPC shot!
Anyway, this says "original photo" to me, which almost turns me off, because that's not enough for a photo to say. But that's not all your photo says. It also has a personality. There is a quirky slope to this photo, the disappearance of the cows head into some larger device, the continuation of this "motion" by the bird's flight... these things don't add up in any allegorical sort of way, but they give the photo breath, life, spirit. |
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07/17/2007 08:12:06 AM |
| Somehow this looks to me vaguely like a shot from some Hitchcock film : ) |
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07/17/2007 07:10:51 AM |
| you know what. i really like this. this may be kind of a twisted view on this... but it seems to me as though the cow has no head but that the bird completes him as it drifts away. the more i look at it, the more i like it. very very cool capture joe. (seen in the reaction club) |
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07/17/2007 05:36:02 AM |
| A surreal agricultural crime scene, the moment after. :) Great capture, like how your horizon line takes you up from cow to bird. |
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07/17/2007 05:05:41 AM |
| this is fantastic. feels like the head of the cow is flying away :) |
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