Greg Beetham wrote:I like the light at the end of the tunnel photo, it’s got a sort of unknown quantity or a kind of mysterious alien feel to it.
Greg
Ps I like the ice cream story too, I didn't even think about the issue before i.e. eating ice cream in a normally quite cold country/climate; I’m not sure I understand the ‘uneasy’ part of the narrative with Aura playing on the swing, is it because the photos in general are too ‘staged’ for your liking and not spontaneous enough perhaps? I know how difficult it is trying to capture the moment with kids, I practice on some victims here now and then and I came to the conclusion that some luck doesn’t go astray when attempting candid’s with children, but the child on the swing photo looks fine too me.
Thanks for the kind words Greg, and I agree you about the tunnel photo. It's pretty much what I felt too when editing it.
About the swinging picture, you are right that as an individual picture it's ok. However, with my camera I'm trying to capture Aura's childhood (a scope beyond this photo blog) and this kind of visual motif, which is very popular way of photographing kids in general, gets repeated all too often in my pictures. It makes me uneasy, because I feel I'm reproducing this certin visual motif and not photographing the childhood Aura has. Things are filtered out because this dominating visual motif. Even if this picture is ok, I like the tunnel pic more, because it solves its way out of this motif.
-Toni
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