[Leica] B.D.-esque Public Transportation shot

[masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)]

Don't get me wrong, if it starts a thread on "street photography"
thats fine with me and I will probably jump in, but all in all its a
crappy shot and a cheap joke :)


Dave

On 6/21/05, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, some of that Roman humor...  Actually, it did as much for me as
> most of the subway shots posted recently.  I have been rethinking a
> lot of comments regarding street photography that the Deadman posted a
> few years ago.  Occasionally just showing the human condition is
> enough to make an image work, most of the time all you have is a banal
> shot of people with no revelations about humans, the human condition,
> stupid human tricks, inhumanity, or simple humor.
> 
> Most of the time, the most mundane of snapshots taken of a normal
> group of humans has more meaning than the typical streeet photo.  Just
> check out the piles of images that SonC deals with in Louisiana.  In a
> hundred years just seeing what people wear, eat, relate, pecking order
> relationships is pretty interesting.
> 
> Anyway, the humor is now appreciated.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> On 6/21/05, David Mason <masonster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/21/05, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The image itself; what makes this image say anything to you?  It is an
> > > image of a bloke on mass transit, what else is going on that would
> > > help me understand a small part of the world better.  Is it someone
> > > near to you so that there is personal meaning to this image?  Was
> > > something going on just before you took the image that made it
> > > interesting to you?
> > >
> > > Thanks for sharing, keep pressing the shutter release, and enjoy the
> > > world around you.
> >
> >
> > Absolutely agree with everything, but also keep in mind that the shot
> > is a tongue-in-cheek shot that was an attempt to recreate all the
> > subway shots B.D. has posted :)
> >
> >
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