[Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 29: human traffic Alicante

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Thanks Ted!

To answer your question: no, in general I do not have a theme for the  
week. Sometimes if there is a big event going on, like the Mayday demo  
or the Hogueras de San Juan, then of course I go out and shoot it and  
expect a certain kind of images. And if I am making a panorama, then I  
plan ahead in terms of going to a certain spot at a certain time of  
day etc. But in a normal week, when nothing special is going on and my  
life consists of going to work in the morning, coming home in the  
evening, walking my dog, perhaps walking to El Sitio with my wife to  
have a couple of pints...during such a week I simply carry the M8 with  
me at all times and photograph whatever catches my eye. The theme that  
you see in the PAW emerges during the editing process.

In general, I do not have any deep ideological agenda with my  
photography. I just want to show what life in Alicante looks like, now  
that I am part of it.

And appreciate you and others looking and commenting on it.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
http://www.nathanfoto.com

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Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog



On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Nathan showed:
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> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 29: human traffic Alicante
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> A week of human traffic around Alicante. Any se?oritas and se?oras
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> appearing in the images are purely incidental and none have been
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> objectified as far as I can tell. I have also been careful to keep the
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> gender ratio as close to 50/50 as practicable:
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> http://www.fotocycle.dk:80/paws/?page_id=271
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> Hi Nathan,
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> Each time you post a new set of photographs, or it seems?  When you  
> start
> out, do you have a theme of subject in your mind to watch for? Or is  
> it
> purely walking the street shooting whatever visual moment catches  
> your eye?
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> In other words ? ?this morning I?m looking for father and child type
> situations?? Or old men doing nothing or something off the norm or  
> quietly
> napping?? Or whatever subject you may think of?  It seems you always  
> or
> nearly so, have a visual continuity of subjects making the series  
> far more
> interesting rather than a rambling all over the wall collection of  
> happy
> snaps without any connection than they are some kind of meaningless  
> photo.
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> The other side of this is to go out open minded and let the visuals  
> take
> their course as and if they happen? I?ve shot in both fashions when  
> shooting
> documentary assignments and had success with both. But the theme  
> seems to
> work better because you look harder with a start and end point.
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> Just a passing thought that might help others who leave home for a  
> walk
> thinking? ?I?m going to shoot some pictures.? Then when the walk is  
> over
> they may or may not have some neat images or just a bunch of  
> exposures.
> Worse? No interesting observations creating keeper photos ending with
> ?select all, delete all!? :-(
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> Ted
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>>>> Any se?oritas and se?oras appearing in the images are purely  
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> objectified as far as I can tell.<<<
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> Please do not let the previous nonsense of PC ramblings due to an over
> active mind block your vision in shooting photographs as you see  
> them in the
> light of the day or night!
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