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10th May 2004 Jono Kimber

Ema Loves Robbie Forever *

The Dana, Shrewsbury, UK

Please note the asterisk, open for constructive criticism as to how this can be made to be more effective. The original photo is actually quite reasonably exposed but I have played here with the shadows and exposure to focus on the graffiti and give the shot a seedy type of atmosphere. This is an uncropped shot as I always try to shoot with the full frame in mind and I don't think much cropping would help here, again, please inform and i'll experiment and learn.

Love moves in mysterious ways and on Saturday this graffiti, along with all the other scribblings on this beautiful railway bridge, will be painted over by some of the local inmates who live, literally, at the end of this photo in the prison. So the cycle will continue....


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podster 20-May-2004 20:33
Well, I think this is just head and shoulders above anything else in this challenge. I wouldn't change anything.
bee1000 17-May-2004 21:43
I like the idea here, and was hoping to find something similar to enter myself. I think the image works, but is a little too over-processed for my taste - it doesn't look quite natural. And of course if Emma could write something more legible next time, that would help!
Jono Kimber 12-May-2004 21:54
Thanks for that Karl. Unfortunately, this seemed to be the best sample of graffiti and as for having it under or over other work, well, it all gets painted every Saturday anyway so it always seems to be a nice blank canvas for the little hoodlums to scribble on. I might sort through my other pics and see what I have that might show a bit more graffiti. Cheers.
Karl P 12-May-2004 05:54
Well I like it :) I'm with you on the cropping, but what I think may have been nicer is to stand a little bit further from the fence, to make the end of the graf a bit clearer. As it is, it sort of fades/merges into the distance.

What would be even better of course, is a similar show of devotion, that was thicker vertically, and took up more of the frame. Ideally in my mind, I'd even like it to be either over or under newew/older work.