Friday -- freezing moments

thebaz

Since last Feb , i've been taking too many shots , what should and was meant to have started off as daily photo blog , became a tedious chore to me after 2 weeks . By week 3 i didn't want to use the camera , and since then, after i stopped the blog ... i've been taking maybe 20 shots a day .... obsessive --- anyway, 4 images stick out for me , the Roma women and children
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/871940447/

O'Connell street bridge , and the soup kitchen and dog
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/968165484/

The freindly family on St. Michales estate , Inchicore
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/932744691/


but this image of depression , still haunts me ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/792765256/

morlar and oreil were right it was a snapshot , but why it worked for me , was when i saw it on the computer , it had that impact to me of the frozen images you get from danger or near death ... where life freezes , into a slow movie captured by a few frozen stills ... thats what i saw when i saw that image , in my frame of mind .
Have had a few bad car crashes and near misses on motor cyles , and thats what happens , life suddenly freezes.
I suppose for me that is the wonder of photography to capture those moments , where life suddenly stops or could stop .

Rant over .... peace

thebaz

**** ... why did this appear twice , Ryan are you playing games


Help Moderator ... whoever , delete duplicate

rymus

ffs... a duplicate and I cant even delete it.. Oh the humanity! Ruu.... little help?

BenjAii

The two family portraits are very good. There is something very masculine in the Roma womans gaze, its quite disconcerting ! ..

thebaz

rymus wrote:

ffs... a duplicate and I cant even delete it.. Oh the humanity! Ruu.... little help?

your only gone a day and look whats happened :mad:

rymus

BenjAii wrote:

There is something very masculine in the Roma womans gaze, its quite disconcerting ! ..

I'd agree.. Theres something about it that just seems to scream "BIG ISSUE" at the viewer. Powerful stuff. I like the O'Connell bridge one, something about the flash in it works.. Can't help but feel that the last one would be served better by a tighter crop and a B&W conversion tho. Maybe do a B&W version just to disprove the naysayers?

PaulieC

thebaz wrote:

but this image of depression , still haunts me ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/792765256/

morlar and oreil were right it was a snapshot , but why it worked for me , was when i saw it on the computer , it had that impact to me of the frozen images you get from danger or near death ... where life freezes , into a slow movie captured by a few frozen stills ... thats what i saw when i saw that image , in my frame of mind .

Baz, this is a picture of a DART coming into a station. Can you explain why it has the above affect on you? Or did you link the wrong picture? I'm confused...:o

Morlar

I would have picked ;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/1012783486/

or for the miami vice affect (with the logo cloned out)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/991437794/

or this one;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/968105002/
I think narrative/composition wise its a stong image.

thebaz

cambo_gueno wrote:

Baz, this is a picture of a DART coming into a station. Can you explain why it has the above affect on you? Or did you link the wrong picture? I'm confused...:o

I suppose it must be something personal , i fealt lousy when taking the shot , but i think its the look of the Dart driver that got me .. any near death experiences i have had, have had about 3 still shots that i remember ... and maybe this one reminds me of one of them , the driver has that outer world look to me , Jaccobs ladderish ... very dark movie

thanks morlar

Ruu_Old

Duplicate deleted, was very slow. I'll have to do better than that.

Trogdor

I like them all, the dart one gets me too, reminds me of those miserabele winters evenings when it's dark outside and pissing down, and doing the same journey every day. Maybe only people who travel on it alot get more of a depression feel from it?

thebaz

Ruu wrote:

Duplicate deleted, was very slow. I'll have to do better than that.

Sackable offence -- Ryan wouldn't be that slow


in a much better space , but that image still scares me

thebaz

Was reading the Irish Times (paper) today , and in the weekend supplement they had a feature on the Dundrum Central Mental hospital , the photos which were supposed to potray a very bleak 19th century old Victorian prison /hospital , were very ordinary and plain to me .
The photos were taken by Alan Betson, who i usually think is very good, so maybe depression is difficult to potryay properly.