I just discovered this forum, so bear with me while I get the hang of it. This shot of a couple at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC was shot last fall using a Hexar on Fuji NPH. It has been cropped a bit.

-- John McCormack (jpmccormac@aol.com), March 14, 2000

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Sorry it didn't work. Back to the drawing board. Moderator: feel free to delete. JMc.

-- John McCormack (jpmccormac@aol.com), March 14, 2000.

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), March 14, 2000.

This should work. The problem is that what you were trying to post was a page with html and the image. You need to find the location of just the image.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeffs@hyperreal.org), March 14, 2000.

Thanks, Jeff. At least the posting of the image to the PhotoNet archive worked. :)

-- John McCormack (jpmccormac@aol.com), March 14, 2000.

I like the tension between the straight lines of the wall and the curves of the people (the woman especially). The reflection/shadow on the wall is nice: perhaps it could be emphasised in printing or digitally?

My problem with the image is that it seems to lack context or a story. If you hadn't told us where the image was taken, I would have been completely lost: two people looking at a dirty wall?

Maybe try further away to emphasise the scale and a more perpendicular angle to get rid of some of the stone in the forground?? But I fear it would still look too much like a holiday snapshot. (I once saw a similar picture taken from a very high posistion. That "worked" for me: any chance you could rent a crane an try it out :-) ?)

Or perhaps get in close (and wide-angle?) so you can read the text. Have the couple point or something. Add one or both faces for human interest. It could work?

 

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-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), March 15, 2000.