The little houses form a nice graphical row. Their neatness and sameness could show signs of a boring existance, all being exactly the same. Except they are not exactly the same. They form an interesting "Spot the Difference" puzzle, with different decking, upper windows, window frames..... So maybe not such a boring existance after all.
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It is a lovely tranquil sunset. Fishing always seems to send calming vibes in a photo, but I thik this is helped here by having all the subjects - the ships, the anglers,the pier and also the horizon - grouped across the centre of the frame, giving a very static, and therefore tranquil, composition.
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I love this one, not only for its simple graphic style, but also for its amusing, and far from simple, way fo conveying its message. I wonder how many cyclists have collided, whilst trying to interpret the instructions.
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I like Mike's interpretation of your lovely sunset. They definitely seem to be returning home. You positioned the boat in the perfect position within your composition.
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I love that image looking up from the bottom most here, because of its brightness and also because, obviously, it is easier to get a distortion-free view from the bottom than from the top, for the simple reason that you can go stand in the exact center on the ground but it is just a bit more difficult to hover in thin air.
An added bonus is that single figure in the center on the lowest revolution: that person brings a very welcome sense of scale (there are also persons on the same level on the lefthand side of the image, but they do not intrude). -
Looking at that railing and the colourful broken tiles as wall decoration, my first impression was that this was a detail image from Gaudi's Casa Battlo.
But on second thought I just think this is in a private residence (maybe even your B&B or AirBnB), where the owner has taken some inspiration from Gaudi.
(I do think that the tiling in the actual Gaudi buildings would be just a bit more consistent, although one can never be sure.)
In any case, that rich decoration contrasts nicely with the more mundane background housing. -
This tag, made with the kind of letter-stamp that can also be used for making adhesive tags, gave me a slight chill.
Not because of its cautiously optimistic message, but because it reminds me also of the "dog tags" worn by soldiers to identify their bodies when KIA.
It's a mixed message for sure. We are in an era where "small wars" are being fought everywhere and bigger war looms large.
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I agree, and I can only wonder if a person needs a PhD in geometry to navigate these streets safely with a bicycle.
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I adore the pattern of repeating shapes, and I would be tempted to crop this to an even slightly more letterboxed ratio, to get rid of that sliver of blue sky on top.
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This is emotional.
Looking at the image it is not obvious what it is about. Then the tin plate reminds me about war and dead soldiers (as Roel already mentioned). It's getting serious and then the text suddenly is decoded and understood. At that point it no longer is a simple photograph any more but rather a means to make me/us stop up for a moment and reflect upon what's going on in the world.
There is such an amount of lying, bizarre statements and new language floating around that not many (certainly not the majority) can keep track. Suddenly presidents are allowed three terms, unthinkable alliances will do unthinkable things and the world will be forever changed. Interesting of course but above all very unsettling.
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Yes, the markings are perplexing.
Well, it is a damn good thing the crossing doesn't see many cyclists at once. In fact perhaps only one every minute or so. To me that makes it even more funny. Thank you for commenting. -
Yes, I felt the same when I saw it, thus the picture.
It is easy to feel helpless in times such as this.
It took a little work to figure out the installation, and I wanted to carry that theme out in the photo so I made it more confusing than it had to be.
I wished I had included more bells in the shots, but I got tunnel vision on site when I spotted this particular tag, which spoke to me.
I saw the resemblance to dog tags too, it was one reason I found the installation so powerful. But its deeper tie is to the southern tradition of protective spirit trees. You hear/see a lot about the bottle trees which are the same tradition, but the tradition is larger than just that, including shiny/reflective metals and bright colors, the most powerful of which is turquoise. These little tin rectangles are reflective to recall that tradition. And right now, we need all the protection from evil spirits we can conjure up.
Thanks for these thoughts, Jonas. Yes, they remind me of the dog tags. The etched message stopped me there in the museum and I had to have a picture of it. These are times when it is good to remember that evil has passed our way before, and yet we, humanity, survived it and in some sense prevailed over it, at least for a while. As poet Nikki Giovanni pointed out after she was in the midst of a mass shooting, evil is real. It is not imaginary. I sometimes wonder about the purpose of art in the midst of all of this, but where humanity has survived, art has too, so I guess we will persevere and do what we can.