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Response to A stroll to the end of time

from Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se)
Thanks for the responses everyone. I like images with multiple interpretations and am happy to have taken one, even if I didn't fully realise it at the time.

As well as the sense of isolated play I was trying to capture the capsule feeling of being in clock-stopping near-whiteout. It looks as if this interpretation wins out for those who weren't there to see the boys' behaviour when the photo was taken. It is very hard to judge distances and scales in this sort of fog, which the photo accentuates if you don't know that the figures are pre-teenage boys about four foot tall.

The frontmost boy is carrying a marker wand from a lobsterpot, presumably filched from nearby. In larger versions of the image it is pretty clear that he's carrying something (but what?), so I'm not tempted to clone or dodge it out. One of the things I like is the contrast between his purposeful attitude - with tool in hand - and the following boy's more jaunty stride.

That's bladderwrack seaweed and a rock in the foreground. They help to seperate sea from sky and I think that part of the frame would be duller without some texture. The very faint horizon line and the brightening towards the highly diffused sun on the right also help to avoid uniformity.

One of the things I'm playing with at present is giving the subject some space so I'm glad nobody thought I should crop. Although the lads' attitudes are luck I did wait for them to reach the right part of the breakwater - a semi-critical moment if you like.

(posted 8656 days ago)

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