W Shumaker wrote:
This is an important subject for me at the moment. <snip> If you look
at a famous photograph, as a
photographer, do you wonder how you would have rendered the situation,
or even if you could enter into the possibility of that situation and
made something of it?
Yet, I think you've done exactly this with one of your shots that does
require you to "engage as much of the world of 'others'." Having looked
at the gallery late last night, the picture that still stands out in my
mind this morning is the circle of children dancing on the beach. This
could have been a typical snapshot. You could have tried to take a
picture *of the kids* and stopped action so we could see who they were.
Instead you made an image of the *sense of the moment.* The beach
seems otherwise empty conveying how the kids seem isolated in their
joyful moment, and that blur... It took me back instantly to the
dizziness of childhood games. A basically neutral background is in
sharp focus, and these shocks of color are blurred, which has softened
up the image considerably, appropriate for the somewhat innocent moment.
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