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Interesting View - Aug. 14-04

It was a dark Friday, yesterday, some rain in the late afternoon. Sitting on a bar terrace and drinking my tea, my eyes caught this view of the environement of a very common european city.
Roof appartments, Building Crane, street lights, a bit of nature, Bar illumination for the evening, the sun umbrellas, the junk food take out on the corner seen under the umbrellas, parking forbidden.

I kept all those details in a single shot and it is indeed, an interesting view


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Lou Giroud14-Aug-2004 18:59
In exeption of an interesting arrangement of details of things one can see in any bigger city in Europe, there's nothing realy to see on this picture.

What the real goal of this picture is, is targetting, framing a shot and eyecatching only. It is, as described an interesting view, an excellent framing that allows to catch many details on one shot without showing any of them complete.

For sure, people are curious to see what the world looks elsewhere, but too often they look the content of a picture only as if they had to choose a decorative framed picture to hang on their wall and home. Too often a picture is classified by its content which can be decorative, strange, scarry, stupid, hilarous, stunning in colour or a seldom snapshot for examples.

The context, the target, the goal and the photographic skills in a picture are simply ignored by most people and often for a simple reason which is that those things are proper to talented and experienced photographers and initiated only and for the common mortal they are non of interest.

A guy hanging high somewhere some 2000 years ago said this, and I think he was right ; Oh Lord forgive them, they don't know what they do.

Note that the goal of my galleries are not to earn comments or public audition, it is more to show that in my long photographers life I earned a lot of aknowledge, that I master many faces of photography in an excellent way and if I look through other galleries it is for sure because I think that there's still a lot to learn.
Gayle P. Clement14-Aug-2004 13:26
It is very interesting, Lou.
Gary Blanchette14-Aug-2004 12:32
One thing I have noticed Lou. When someone displays an image of a location in a different part of the world, someone else will always find it interesting. I personally like to see locations from around the world.