On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:23:25AM -0800, Keith Whaley wrote: > > > frank theriault wrote: > >On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:50:05 -0800, Marco Alpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>A couple more from the NorCal outing: > >> > >>http://www.alpert.com/marco/pdml/norcal3.html > >>http://www.alpert.com/marco/pdml/norcal4.html > >> > >> -Marco > > >Both terrific photos! > > > >I like the "humanity" of the first, especially the dirty face of the kid > ><vbg>. > > > >There's something surreal about the second one that I can't quite put > >my finger on, but until I do, I like the lighting and composition (and > >all those old folks sitting together...). > > Maybe it's the unspoken thought? There, in 25 years or so, go you? > Maybe you sense the loss of independence they exhibit, en masse? > They seem to be on a tour of some sort, perhaps sponsered by the local > senior citizen's group. > Maybe it's the fact that they're sitting there, dutifully eating their > box lunches without any obvious person-to-person interaction. No > conversation between any of them, just fueling up, while maintaining > some dignity in it all... > > "Sighhh. I was told to get out and go on this trip and mingle with > people, and enjoy myself, so here I am. But I don't know anyone and I'm > not having much fun...and there's no-one I know that I want to talk to." > > That's what I see in it. Kind of sad, in a way. I see no smiles there... > > keith whaley
It certainly looks like that. And, quite often, smiles don't show up. But I was standing near this group for a while, and there was quite a lot of chatter back and forth between members of the group. I'm pretty sure they mostly knew each other; knew each other well enough, in fact, that they didn't need to go to the effort of smiling.
