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16-MAY-2006

The Geometry of Loneliness, Brussels 2006

Canon EOS 20D
1/40s f/9.0 at 105.0mm iso800 full exif

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Guest 24-Jul-2006 02:12
great balance... tho the look of the guy in the middle speaks of confusion to me more than solitude. interesting stance of the guy on the right tho... he's looking away, as though relinquishing any responsibilities over anything in particular.
Guest 06-Jul-2006 07:13
I love it. I've often tried to put these stairs in my images, but it never works. I'll make one of them my picture of today.
Bill Harris03-Jul-2006 11:18
Outstanding, thoughtful study, Kal. You had the instinct and captured the shot. Great.
Jose Paulo Andrade02-Jul-2006 15:31
A good of image with a lot of meanings! An excelent title.
Guest 02-Jul-2006 02:13
Hmmm... géométrie de la solitude! superbe titre...
A very well composed image, well seen... what can I add... ?
Love the man on the right side, who "refuses" the camera... ;-)
JSWaters01-Jul-2006 14:19
A wonderful study in the loneliness we can feel in a cramped urban setting, Kal. Also, I see it another way - we sometimes isolate ourselves in this type of environment to maintain our individuality. The elder gentleman turns away and the younger has an almost glazed, unseeing look on his face.
Jenene
Rob Rosetti01-Jul-2006 11:34
Love the play of geometry and meaning in this shot! Wonderful! Roberto
Antonis Sarantos01-Jul-2006 06:00
Excellent candid!
A story teller.
Adalberto Tiburzi01-Jul-2006 05:09
Love the tilted cobblestones. The flat country is not that flat, at least in your vision;-)
Adal
Guest 01-Jul-2006 04:47
Nice shto
AL01-Jul-2006 04:09
Well said by everyone. I awed at the perfect geometry. And I awed at the human element, simply down to two, contrasting yet somehow related. Each may have chosen his own comfort level. A gap of distance and generation and thoughts. But they're related as they share the same part of the world, at least the same staircase for now. I don't know if this makes any sense. Just say you're always good at provoking thoughts and making the viewer choose what he/she chooses to see. Voted.
snootydog01-Jul-2006 02:53
Whoa... this is outstanding and your caption is brilliant
Ray Rebortira01-Jul-2006 01:52
The loneliness of youth outweighs the loneliness of old age. The first from lack of experience, the other from too much.
Shirley Wang01-Jul-2006 01:39
Great metaphor. I can feel as one of them.
Phil Douglis01-Jul-2006 01:36
Amazing. d42 beat me to the punch. I was still typing while he drew first blood. And he is right. As Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players."
Phil Douglis01-Jul-2006 01:33
I can't believe that I was able to get in the first word this time, instead of the last, Kal. You manage to do a very difficult thing here -- structuring an image as geometry while at the same time stopping a moment in time that reveals meaning. this image is a study in urban isolation. Even though these men sit only a few feet apart, they seem to barely tolerate each other's presence. They are bound together by the geometry of the steps, railing, building, and in the younger man's case, body position. Yet they utterly alone in their worlds of silence. A metaphor, indeed, for loneliness spawned by a sense of urban dislocation.
Guest 01-Jul-2006 01:30
Beautiful set up and shot.
BTW: When I say set up I don't mean to imply that you posed the people but like all good street photographers you waited for the precise moment to take the photo. The world is a stage for the people with cameras and we position the players with time.
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