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I liked this last group, Tony.
About the Edward Hopper couple. Your picture made me realize the effect bodily contours can have on the atmosphere of the picture.
The couple you photographed, although separated and with its back to the observer exhales a calm and even friendly atmosphere due to their soft round contours.
In Hopper the sharp contours usually suggest an implacable hard loneliness.
Thanks. True, it's street photography - and I would not have chosen them as models due to their formless figures, but it somehow works. There is a massive disconnect between them though, life bees like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Yes, you are right, in fact one wouldnīt take them for a couple. From behind they just look like any man or woman sitting beside each other. But thatīs what makes the picture interesting.
The people on you island look all lonely. But that is probably the perspective of the photographer.
I would say they are melancholic. Maybe they are expressions of self-portraiture, at times. Not all the time, though, happily.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
No, of course not. But maybe it is this tinge of melancholy or loneliness that sets the atmosphere of the picture. It suggest, for example, that the girl lighting the cigarette, has a whole world of her own.
I can confirm that she is much in a world of her own, ha. I like your point on the rounded people sitting at the boardwalk. skinny people would give in a more aggressive edge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
This looks very wintry. It is the colour of snow, but there isnīt any snow on the abandoned chairs.
Uau! These waves are gorgeous!Quote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
Thanks!! It's at the Dock in the Cayman Islands, waves are breaking over the dock. Gives a cool effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Thanks! I really love minimalism. But the vacant chairs and folded umbrellas creates a certain moodQuote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
It really does! I feel it is an atmosphere of absence, very common in these Corona times.
Gigantic but looks totally empty.
Everyone came to the post office, right after i shot this. Maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Is that blue sand, Tony?
The sand is on the bottom on the 2nd photo. the first photo is the sea and sky, no sand. (there is no blue sand in the Cayman Islands)Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Of course not, Tony, but it might have been a trick of the lens.
Ha, lots of tricks, but I left the sand in one of themQuote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Again, a nice colour contrast. And even the empty door and the empty window are a sign of loneliness. I have an idea of Cayman Isles as a happy island with people going about all the time, but that is not what your pictures show.
A Tony Hopper picture I should say.Expressive body language. And I notice that you only show the faces of the people, who permit it.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
Thanks. Well, I'm a bundle of joy myself. I try to relay that in my photos and drawings, but maybe it's not working (wink).Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
I particularly like the red beach. At least, on my tablet it is red.