Undecided about this, another half cooked study in black and white. I simply don't manage to go with the light while processing, perhaps I can try harder.
Taken from the window of a tiny shed. A sign on the door says that no motorbikes should be parked in front of the door, as the owner has mobility problems. Therefore, I take he is the one in the photograph. An agile mind, judging from what he reads, and a bird watcher.
I found it touching, in the good light.
Whoever you are, good luck. I like your bookshelf and your toy birds peering at the windows.
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I would like to do something unusual here and explain why I have taken this image and what I saw in it.
Not because the image actually reflects that all that well, quite the opposite, but for my own record. I would like to come back and have a look in a while, and see if I still feel the same when not that engaged with my idea anymore.
I found it striking what this man choose as his favourite portrait of himself.
Not an image of the past, him with his smiling friends, perhaps, a fish and a rod, or a bird watching scope in his hands. Not a close crop to frame a smile and exclude a wheelchair.
It's him on his wheels, facing away from the camera, alone, unscathed, an empty track bending to hide what lies ahead.
As for the framed image being so centered into the frame, it's simply that he himself choose it to be that way. He put it over his work desk, right in the middle and in front of his eyes, all the time, unrelenting. Is it a portrait? Or a stern reminder?
I couldn't have changed that, and I choose a square frame to keep it as it should be.
Because, after al, this man doesn't care about me, or you, watching through the eye of the camera. He doesn't care about his books and memories. Or that he's alone, a Crusoe who learnt to live off the remains of his shipwreck. And grew impatient.
He's pulling off..
He did it already, actually. The room is empty, after all..
Is it wrong that I so much elaborate over a man I never met?
Is it strange I feel admiration?
One day I might go back to the tiny shed on the dock, and give him a print of thsi as an apology.
For him to keep or throw away, as he prefers.
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I am so jealous. This is the kind of shot I love to get, an image just full of details to be found (like the book on nature photography :-) The glass fishing buoys with the rope wound round them, the bucket of paint, the electric cord for a charger or similar item and of course the framed photo of presumably the home's owner. Great use of b/w to catch the details, there was probably tons of colour in there. The shelves are at thirds. The title sets us looking for a shipwreck in Pennsylvania and even if it really isn't there, it sure is fun looking for it. I can see why some think it cluttered, and it verges on that. But it's a careful clutter, it isn't as disorganized as it looks.
IMHO shots like this get robbed far too easily. Free Studies are brutal unless you have an image that says POW! in one way or another. The technicals seem perfectly fine for a handheld shot in ambient light. The only possible thing I'd change is to make the photo less centred as he wheels into the world of knowledge around him.
Thank you for this image. And keep shooting and entering!
Very pleasantly image too look at love the B&W feel good sharpness good love the lighting good composition you made a simple image look grand ..Very well done
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