Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Barbour offered: Subject: Re: [Leica] mother... >>> but with the faces turned away it rather weakens the photo by > conventional standards... yet strengthens it at the same time...<<< Hi Steve, Not at all!, screw the conventional standard because in many cases it's constantly following the herd of sheep with everything looking the same by the rules. This photograph "exudes feeling" and the faces are there sufficiently to see. But the most important thing about this captured moment is the feeling! It's always about feeling in how viewers re-act. Aren't the dead humans in Iraq all about feelings when we look at them? Hell they're all conventional, but it's the feelings they create that make the photographs work! In my opinion your photograph has so much feeling for it and that's what makes it work so beautifully! It allows us to read into it the quietness of the moment. ted