Catching up

franken (e2 Member)

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11 Oct 2012 - 6:55 PM

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Works for me!

Ken.

ps, For me, old will always be twenty years away!

mrswoolybill (Critique Team)

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11 Oct 2012 - 7:30 PM

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Neat bit of social history. I started off wondering if a square crop would be stronger but having looked at this for a bit I think it benefits from space, detail.
Moira

woolybill1 (e2 Member)

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11 Oct 2012 - 7:40 PM

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I'm so pleased that you have decided against being old, Malc. I'm coming up 63 and trying hard to be young (I never was young enough to be juvenile )

Has to be the newspaper for me; Le Monde suits me fine but I need a spare week as it's far wordier than our broadsheets.
A smart phone is only as smart as its user, which to judge by the denizens of the 9.03 a.m. bus to Newcastle on Saturdays is - "not very". My own mobile phone serves only as a timepiece.
I used to like BBC teletext with my breakfast cereal, until Auntie decided to run the text over the right half of the screen only: the result of which is to drive me to reading the text over Cbeebies as the male breakfast news tv presenter always sits on the un-texted side gurning silently at the camera while the female remains concealed by the text . . . or maybe they have some nonentity of a 'celebrity' disturbing my digestion instead. Scooby-Doo is more entertaining and, frankly, usually makes more sense; if it were Daffy Duck (my hero!!!) I wouldn't bother reading the text at all . . .

Sorry for the digression: just think what delights you are missing on yon side of the North Sea!

Love the very strong, stark b&w conversion you have used, the subject itself and the scooterist branché in the f/g. Incidentally, he acts as what the Fine Art word apparently calls a repoussoir, a person or object in the extreme foreground, usually on one side of the frame, whose presence forces your eye back to the centre of the frame. Learn something new every day - I just did!

Regards
Bill

saeidNL (e2 Member)

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11 Oct 2012 - 8:10 PM

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Stunning and wonderful capture and work,
saeid

cats_123 (e2 Member)

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11 Oct 2012 - 9:19 PM

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so much `happening'...wonderful...and B&W is so perfect here

carmenfuchs

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11 Oct 2012 - 10:31 PM

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Great shot. I'm 55 and lovin' it. =)

Daisymaye (e2 Member)

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12 Oct 2012 - 12:30 AM

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All about the news. Paper everywhere........Sandy

saltireblue (Site Moderator)

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12 Oct 2012 - 6:54 AM

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No explanation required, Dougie, I have already pm'd Bill pointing it out to him

Malc

TrevBatWCC (e2 Member)

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12 Oct 2012 - 2:38 PM

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An excellent, well timed and composed candid here, Malc, capturing both the newspaper reader and scooter rider
Trev

Ade_Osman (e2 Member)

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12 Oct 2012 - 6:58 PM

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Just love this candid in Mono, there's so much going on in it, that's not to say the image is too busy because it's not, it just a magic moment captured expertly well.....Well done Malc!

Ade

taggart (e2 Member)

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13 Oct 2012 - 1:08 PM

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I left a partial answer with the shadow image---to your question--- It might have been oppressive within, but not imprison ed.

good and interesting point mentioned by Jason above!-- a technique I will attempt asap!

Lillian (e2 Member)

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13 Oct 2012 - 9:09 PM

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Great ...really great shot, and love that title Malc
as it seems that is what I am always trying to do!!
well done for the awards..very deserving
Lillian

annettep38 (e2 Member)

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14 Oct 2012 - 8:23 PM

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I like the conversion very much, I think it draws our attention to the main actors.