Bob W wrote:
It seems that if we were not
programmed to react in a certain way to a bent-over woman, it
wouldn't distract??? If she were facing forward, the
composition would apparently be okay???
No, not as far as I'm concerned. It's not the botty, or the fact that it's a
woman, it's the compositional element. You could put anything - or nothing -
there, and it would detract from the point of the photograph.
I agree with Bob, but I think everyone who objects to the picture *on
the basis of poor composition* has already said so, quite clearly, and
the people who imagine that all the complaints arise from "prudishness"
or "prurient interest" will continue to imagine so regardless of all
plainly-stated explanations to the contrary.
ERNR
