Matt Quinn wrote:...
I have much reading to do. Thanks Matt
So much to learn, so much fun doing it! And I love the pout! S-
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Matt Quinn wrote:...
I have much reading to do. Thanks Matt
St3v3M wrote:Matt Quinn wrote:...
I have much reading to do. Thanks Matt
So much to learn, so much fun doing it! And I love the pout! S-
Matt Quinn wrote:Minnie, Thank you for this. The resources are splendid. I will benefit from them
The image chills me, partly as a result of current photos of children fleeing violence; it has echoes of the young girl on fire from napalm in Vietnam. And that raises a question of how objective we can be when looking at a photo.
Also, there is a halo of some sort around her, also suggesting an attempt to focus attention. The lighting just doesn't seem right on her; I can't be more specific that that. And there is a softness, a watercolor quality, to parts of the image that puzzles me.
And it looks like something of a stock photo from a travel brochure, if the child could be PSed out.
Just so you can give these comments the right weight, I didn't like any of John Donne's poems the first time I read them, notUnhappy granddaughter (1 of 1).jpg knowing who he was. Then his reputation and others' comments made me read again.
Here's a photo from yesterday, not necessarily a dm, but a significant pause in the afternoon. My wife thought it was time to go home while our granddaughter wanted to stay. She pretended to pout to see whether pouting would work. It didn't ; it doesn't.
I have much reading to do. Thanks Matt
minniev wrote:Matt Quinn wrote:Minnie, Thank you for this. The resources are splendid. I will benefit from them
The image chills me, partly as a result of current photos of children fleeing violence; it has echoes of the young girl on fire from napalm in Vietnam. And that raises a question of how objective we can be when looking at a photo.
Also, there is a halo of some sort around her, also suggesting an attempt to focus attention. The lighting just doesn't seem right on her; I can't be more specific that that. And there is a softness, a watercolor quality, to parts of the image that puzzles me.
And it looks like something of a stock photo from a travel brochure, if the child could be PSed out.
Just so you can give these comments the right weight, I didn't like any of John Donne's poems the first time I read them, notUnhappy granddaughter (1 of 1).jpg knowing who he was. Then his reputation and others' comments made me read again.
Here's a photo from yesterday, not necessarily a dm, but a significant pause in the afternoon. My wife thought it was time to go home while our granddaughter wanted to stay. She pretended to pout to see whether pouting would work. It didn't ; it doesn't.
I have much reading to do. Thanks Matt
Thanks, Matt, for chiming in and for sharing a "moment" indeed. This series is always about us (definitely including me) thinking and learning, a never-ending story that hopefully will continue to unfold for all of us, no mater our age or experience. It took me almost two years of doing these monthly posts to tangle with Cartier Bresson, both because he was somewhat intimidating and because I didn't quite get it.
The young girl in Viet Nam was a Decisive Moment too, though of a different sort. It is interesting to look at the two in conjunction, a powerful contrast in what is the same and what is different.
Watch tomorrow for a new one going up!
Matt Quinn wrote:Minnie, Thank you for this. The resources are splendid. I will benefit from them
The image chills me, partly as a result of current photos of children fleeing violence; it has echoes of the young girl on fire from napalm in Vietnam. And that raises a question of how objective we can be when looking at a photo.
Also, there is a halo of some sort around her, also suggesting an attempt to focus attention. The lighting just doesn't seem right on her; I can't be more specific that that. And there is a softness, a watercolor quality, to parts of the image that puzzles me.
And it looks like something of a stock photo from a travel brochure, if the child could be PSed out.
Just so you can give these comments the right weight, I didn't like any of John Donne's poems the first time I read them, not knowing who he was. Then his reputation and others' comments made me read again.
Here's a photo from yesterday, not necessarily a dm, but a significant pause in the afternoon. My wife thought it was time to go home while our granddaughter wanted to stay. She pretended to pout to see whether pouting would work. It didn't ; it doesn't.
I have much reading to do. Thanks Matt
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