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21-OCT-2006

Must be Home


"Any place I hang my hat is home." Some of my friends also used this hat as a subject. Iris has two: http://www.pbase.com/irislm/image/71982433
http://www.pbase.com/irislm/image/71982435 and Carol: http://www.pbase.com/sveetzel/image/69300334
It is interesting to me how we each use the same subject in such different ways.

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Iris Maybloom (irislm)28-Jan-2007 05:21
THE HAT!!! In our individual wanderings, we each found this hat. We photographed it separately, at different times, and interpreted the scene so differently. In addition to the photograph, do our varying expressions say something about the photographer, and how he/she interacts with the world? Your image suggests to me that you're an "up close and personal" kind of guy, while my image is a little bit more stand offish, aloof. Yours is sharp, detail oriented, mine is more vague. What do you think? Too shrinkish???
Carol E Sandgren17-Jan-2007 01:54
It IS interesting to see all of our different views of this famous hat! (And it took me several hours to find this hat as someone described it to me and so I hunted all over for it.) Your view is the most detailed of the actual hat hanging over the chair. Looks like a good hat still in pretty good shape too after all these years. I have to wonder whose hat this really was.
Phil Douglis17-Jan-2007 00:45
Good to see links to all four hat images here. It is a wonderful teaching example, Tim.
Tim May17-Jan-2007 00:36
I, too, think this a great example of the range of photographic expression - I might add that I did link to the image you also linked to, but I was having trouble with the syntax to the linking and probably editing it while you were commenting.
Phil Douglis17-Jan-2007 00:31
I see why you asked me if I shot the hat. I did, but not as expressively as you, Iris and Carol managed t do it, so I tossed it. I think we can learn a lot about how flexible photographic expression is from these three examples. Your hat expresses the most character as a hat because of vantage point and light. Carol's hat tells us more about Bodie, as a ghost town. Iris made two images of that hat -- each of them haunted. I particulary liked the one you did not choose to link below -- its athttp://www.pbase.com/irislm/image/71982433 --probably the most incongruous and poignant of the four. All of them express their concepts well, and more importantly, as you note, differently.