Photo Comp Jan 2014 - 'Street Photography'

[Dvorak]

...this here is a competition and I'm here to win it...

I think you've misunderstood a thing or two, mate.

[RiK]

I voted for Rik because the image gave me a strong emotional impact.

And so did I. It's one of these images where the motif itself moves into the front, whereas the photographer (and his/her cam/technique/production/post production) steps back as something totally unimportant.
Although I consider it to be an entirely valid approach to take: positioning oneself, the subject, the photographer, the director into the center of a work.
But that always goes along with degrading the motif to just an object. Something that only comes to life through your work.
Which isn't true and never was.
It was alife before and after. It has a life beyond the director's will, the photographer's glass and workmanship.
And that's exactly (for me at least) what's the core of the beauty of this image.
+1

Aww thanks D. really appreciate that. Together with the nice comments from Paula I'm far more pleased just to have received them because it means far more than 'winning' a little friendly competition. It's rare in these comps that anyone actually gives any feedback on the photos. It would be awesome if we could get a few more people commenting on the images and maybe that would encourage people to make that little extra effort to shoot some more too.

Regardless of actual entries it would be awesome to see people posting a few more images on the comp themes eh?

[Dvorak]

...far more than 'winning' a little friendly competition.

'winning' is for losers. Those of the sad kind.
Then again, 90%* of all things are sad.

It's rare in these comps that anyone actually gives any feedback on the photos. It would be awesome if we could get a few more people commenting on the images and maybe that would encourage people to make that little extra effort to shoot some more too.

That.
Would love to read more feedback. More opinions. Interpretations. What Paula did.

Regardless of actual entries it would be awesome to see people posting a few more images on the comp themes eh?

Maybe we just can leave this theme open?
Street stuff. And what we can make of it?

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*true fact

[RiK]

Maybe we just can leave this theme open?
Street stuff. And what we can make of it?

For sure, we could encourage that with all the topics really couldn't we?

[Dvorak]

Maybe we just can leave this theme open?
Street stuff. And what we can make of it?

For sure, we could encourage that with all the topics really couldn't we?

We could indeed.

That and...

Maybe we could have a 'Post your image and let people have their say" comp.
With "let people have their say" boldly undermarked.
And "comp" in bright apostrophies. For it ain't a comp in a literal sense.

We may propagate this in and to Bleatings. People tend to have a quick and strong opinion over there, you know.