a great game shot.but I dropped this one for the other more mingling faces game photo.
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08-Jan-2006 16:48
Great shot - whether conscious or not, it is the body language that makes it, although I think there's an ambiguity about the man on the right - is he lonely/isolated, or just checking out a pretty girl across the street?! Whatever, it's an intriguing, and excellent shot
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22-Jul-2005 16:53
about the body language thing. when Kal made this picture he had no choice over where these legs should be to make a good body language, and as it was, he did not realize that this is a good body language at all. isn't it rediculous when you spoke so highly of the body language?i am sorry to say that u , and Phil complicate the plain release of the shutter
Jen is right, Kal. We do get too close to our own images to really see them objectively, or as a viewer would see it. We always are reading things into our images that we felt and saw, but somehow those things often are not seen by the viewer. This image is about time suspended. The bodies just hang there in space -- I get the feeling they have always been there like this and always will be. They have little else to do but sit here and talk and play and think and feel. This image is all about those who have nothing more to do but kill time. Jen is always the optimist. She looks for hope in everything. So she sees it here. I just see the reality. It's a sad image, Kal -- one that makes us all think twice about where may be headed ourselves someday.
You know Kal, that happens to me all the time. I have pictures I took instinctively, but have trouble to realize the values and the meanings. Phil always tell me that I think a picture is shitty but in fact it is not. And now I have you too come to my gallery, you gave me lot of ideas that I thought about before. I guess sometimes, we do have trouble to read our own pictures because we are too familar/close to them.
How come you were not sure about this picture!! It is brilliant!! :))
Thank you Jen, what a mind you have! I was not sure about this image. I liked it, but couldn't tell what it was about it. This happened to me with one of Phil's images of a bar (a Hopper like image), where it was when he explained the link between the pattern in the glasses on the bar and the lights on the ceiling that I finally understood what I liked. I had noticed the legs, but I never saw them as body language! I wonder if my eye sees these things, or at least that my brain recognises this geometry/body language instinctively, but that I can not conciously interpret it, I only knew this image was different.
Another interesting study of body language! You show three men with different sitting positions(showing two legs, one leg and no leg haha), and each suggests different personalities. The man with hat separates his legs, seems in the position to control the game, while another player is more concentrate on his own part of the game, and try to play it well. The man on the side seems alone, helpless and bored, but he turns his body to us suggesting he is open to new friendships and is waiting someone to come to fill his life.
