On Dec 21, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 12/18/2013 4:03 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> ... >> The snow shot is nice. There is nothing in the picture to localize it >> - it could be anyplace in the world that has snow. That means that >> this cannot be about the rarity of snow in the Tel Aviv area, it >> needs to stand on its own as an interesting abstract pattern. It does >> that nicely. > > That's indeed correct. I often fail to provide an anchor of some kind as far > as this kind of shots go... And even with that GPS thingie, the geotag > wouldn't count, I suppose... That's a notion I need to ponder. > > Boris
I wasn't sure if I was being clear in my original comment or not Boris, and it appears not. It would have been easy to take a picture of snow in the foreground with a well-known recognizable skyline in the background, or a road sign "25 kms to Tel Aviv", or whatever. The result would have been mild interest: "oh, that is unusual for snow to be there." Quite forgettable unless you were there at the time. Like many vacation shots. I think that what you did was much more difficult (and interesting): you saw, recognized, and captured a nice abstract created by tire marks in the snow. It needs no geotag to be interesting in its own right. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
