"Man on Street in Normandy"
Normandy, France Another image taken from inside a moving car (bad) which I hated. I really wanted to get around more on foot, but with travel plans and constantly trying to make it from point A to point B, it was difficult. Shooting through a windshield lowered the contrast considerably, so I had to print at almost a grade 5. This people shot is along the same trend as recent posts, but there's something a bit different. He's walking away from us. I know what you're going to say, though. "GET OUT OF THE STUPID CAR!!"

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), March 10, 2000

Answers

Yeah, I don't like the travel part as much as I do the being there. That point a, point b thing gets really tedious. I want to go to point b and stay there. It's surprising you were able to get this in a drive by. Do you just look out the window through the camera the whole trip?... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), March 10, 2000.

Over zealous inlaws wanting to show me too much too fast. A lot of my shots turned out blurry!

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), March 10, 2000.

it's a good'n anyway Tony...I'd like to see the print first hand.

-- Trib (linhof6@hotmail.com), March 10, 2000.

Its a good composition. Makes me feel to be there. Since the man is moving way on an empty street;it adds to the eeriness of the shot and makes me wonder whats round the corner.

-- Sourav Roy Choudhury (sourav.roy@ncmail.net), March 10, 2000.

I've got a brother like that, gave me the fastest tour ever of the Cascades and Olympic Peninsula, "here's the dam from that Superman movie... Here's the highest paved road in the 48 contiguous states... here's the Ho rain forest (take a picture, it'll last longer) hahaha. I can relate, Tony, really... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), March 10, 2000.

Moving or not, I really like this photograph. The lines in the pavement, the sign on the wall, all work to draw the eye to the isolated figure, and I wonder where he's been, what he's carrying, and where he's going. An intriguing photo.

Chris

-- Chris Ellinger (ellinger@umich.edu), March 23, 2000.

I like this. Bill Brandt in a Beret. There's a good overall mood, but it's made by the cross-current of the road+man and the two signs. My only quibble would be that the burnt out sky and the mundane rooftops add neither form nor content, so although I generally wince at the photo.net autocomment to crop, I think this is stronger if you only take the bottom half.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), March 23, 2000.