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Stephen Bivens
{K:7296} 6/13/2004
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I feel the same way, That's why I take the pictuers I take, Chech them out and let me know what you think.
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Wayne Harridge
{K:12080} 6/13/2004
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So what use is a body, or a well tended grave to the dead. What happens to their wordly possessions counts for nothing. Keep them in your memory - that's important.
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Ciana Worme
{K:6606} 6/13/2004
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I think you missed the point I was making. Of course, a well tended grave is not important to the person in it, nor are their worldly possessions. It's the idea that at one time or another these graves were tended to. Now they are not. It's a matter of loneliness and an image of forgotten that I was trying to convey with this composition.
At any rate, thanks for your comment.
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Jon O'Brien
{K:10547} 6/13/2004
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Excellent picture. This is a surprisingly recent burial to be in that kind of condition - I'd tend to blame the municipality or whoever is responsible for upkeep at the cemetery. Having said that - what I find most poignant about older burials is the idea that the passage of time erodes not only the stone, but the memory of the life that was lived, until memory (and sometimes inscription, too) are gone and forgotten. Most of us leave very small footprints on the pages of history. Once those who knew her personally are gone, this inscription may be the only enduring record of Hattie C. Watson's entire life.
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Ciana Worme
{K:6606} 6/13/2004
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Original color version
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Vikram Bose-Mullick
{K:554} 6/14/2004
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Hi Ciana.. speaking strictly to your photography, and I've been following your work for a while now. I feel u make too deep a connection with your subjects & invariably end up limiting your compositional possibilities by give giving them far too much emphasis with the tight crops, extreme close ups, take a short break from your normal habit and borrow mine for a day, watch ur subject and see how they react with the environment and don?t pull that shutter till u have established exactly what they are up to.. (I know u do this sometimes with the 2 girls reading the love letter, ?Sleeping after exam?, ?girl talk?, others) Those are the portraits that work for me J.. this would be a lot easier if ur camera wasn?t so advanced. Haha! Just strap in a 50mm lens and u are forced to sit and contemplate.
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Pablo
{K:5381} 7/1/2004
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Very powerful image.
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