On 10/5/05, Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last week I came across a roll of Ektachrome that I don't remember > buying or shooting. So I took it to the lab just to see what's on it. > While I still don't remember ever buying or exposing a roll of slide > film last year, the roll contained pictures taken at the Independence > Day parade in Piggott, Arkansas, July 2004. The town always has a > beauty pageant a few days before the parade. The winners are always > the parade's main attraction. While not an exceptional photograph by > any stretch of the imagination, this is the best of the roll. > > http://twosixteen.com/gallery/index.php?id=179 > > K1000, M200/4, Ektachrome.
1) She's quite beautiful (and that's a good thing), 2) You caught a lovely expression on her face - almost shy, as if she's a small-town girl who's not used to the attention, as opposed to one of those "professional pageant girls" who travel from pageant to pageant (anyone ever seen Drop Dead Gorgeous - what a hilarious black comedy! <g>), 3) The oof folks and pick-up trucks and modest house in the background scream of Smalltown USA (or Canada, for that matter) - and I'm guessing that Piggott, Arkansas ~may~ be a smallish town. I love this shot (despite - or maybe because of - its technical shortcomings). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
