That's the cool thing about art (I seem to be on that this weekend - don't know why, maybe doing 10 or 15 PAW commentaries yesterday morning has me considering these sorts of things). I love it when people see things in my photos that I didn't. I don't mean actual physical details, but who experience feelings that I didn't when I took the photo, and don't when I look into the photo.
I'm amazed at how often I'll understand the feelings of those viewers and begin to feel them myself.
Of course that applies to any work that I'm looking at, not just my photos. I guess that's why going to a mueum or gallery is so much fun - you stand in front of a piece of art, and sometimes discuss it with whomever's next to you and you both come away with a different understanding.
I'm glad you don't mind that my feelings while looking at yours were different from yours.
cheers, frank
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From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Not a PAW but a recent QuikSnap Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:03:13 -0700
Hi Frank ...
While not intended as anything but a QuikSnap of an interesting house, your comments are right on, and, maybe, there was some unintentional comment about that in the photo. You see, back around 1990 a terrible fire swept through the area in which that house is located. Literally hundreds of homes were destroyed, whole communities were burnt to the ground. In general, the area was filled with older, small homes. Many were summer homes for San Franciscans, who built small, simple places to use to get out of the terrible, cold, wet, San Francisco summers. This area was always sunny and warm.
After the fire destroyed the homes, many were rebuilt, not as the small homes they once were, not as homes that really fit well into their environment, but as small castle, huge places out place in the rustic, woodsy hills of Oakland. Many of these places are ugly, and, being built on the burnt out hills, are glaringly ugly, as they now stand out on the barren hillsides without the softening effect of trees.
shel
frank theriault wrote:
>
> Cool shot. You're right, Shel, interesting colours and interesting shape to
> the house.
>
> As it was loading, I was thinking about why anyone needs a house that large.
> There's something in there about consumerism in the Western World, about
> the type of society where people desire monster houses while 1/4 of the
> world goes to bed hungry.
>
> But, none of that has to do with your photo. That's just my reaction to it.
>
> cheers,
> frank
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