On 23 May 2005 at 14:47, Anthony Farr wrote: > In my culture, anyone seeing such a structure, even only a part of it, knows > that it is a coastal swimming baths. Most of these were built in the early > 20th > Century as a way of providing Olympic standard pools that can be refreshed > cheaply and easily with seawater, thus not requiring filtration or chemical > treatment. At any time in daylight, in any weather, you can expect to see a > swimmer 'doing laps'. > > Given that background, an Australian viewer would instantly expect an object > in > the water to be a swimmer. In fact, Australians who have seen it have all > seen > the swimmer for what she is. I didn't recognize a need to enhance the > swimmer's > visibility, or to see her as an ambiguity to be deleted, until I put the > picture > on an international stage.
Great shot, I enjoyed it, it helps just a little that I've been to the exact location as well. My only critique is that including slightly more of the foreground fencing may have lead to it being slightly less distracting whilst subliminally reinforcing context? > PDML is an amazing place to get a world perspective! Too true :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
