Leo, or at least I hope so. This picture was taken in an instant on a hot afternoon. Any comments?

-- Charles Curry-Hyde (charles@chho.com.au), April 11, 2001

Answers

sorry again - not sure what I am doing wrong the link is: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=197457" if someone could help me work out the error I would be very gratefull.

-- Charles Curry-Hyde (charles@chho.com.au), April 11, 2001.

-- Charles Curry-Hyde (charles@chho.com.au), April 11, 2001.

sorry to trash your forum with mistakes but alow me one more try...

-- Charles Curry-Hyde (charles@chho.com.au), April 11, 2001.

The URL you gave pointed to a web page that contains the image, you needed to give the URL for the image itself.

-- Preston Wilson (preston_wilson@mail.com), April 11, 2001.

This is a damn nice picture- right in the Bresson tradition. I wouldn't change a thing---- just call it "Leo"...

-- Chris Yeager (cyeager@ix.netcom.com), April 11, 2001.

I'll add that it breaks one of the big rules- the "bullseye" rule, as in don't center the subject. (This is also known as the rule of thirds in painting- break your surface into a tic-tac-toe board and place the subject on one of the intersections....) Here it looks teriffic though- congrats again.. Could you post a slightly larger higher res copy?

-- Chris Yeager (cyeager@ix.netcom.com), April 11, 2001.

Yes, this one reminds me of an HCB for sure. Both the subject and his background is interesting. I see a little bit of the blurry top of another person's head. I think this would also be interesting had that person's full blurry face appear more prominently in the frame. Good printing job on this one, too.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), April 11, 2001.

This is one of the best I've seen in a long time. It reminds me of some of the casual "family" photos that the poet Alan Ginsberg took of his friends in life. I guess what I'm saying is that this seems to be a "living" image...it has the dynamics of a real person in a real place, but engaged with the photographer...not just some anonymous person walking across a street. Does that make sense?

-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), April 11, 2001.

thanks for the kind comments - I have a smile from ear to ear! For those who may have visited Melbourne Leo is Leo Donati who is a renowned butcher and art collector in Lygon Street. I was particuarily pleased that this image caught his both his intensity and the position he takes as a thoughtful outsider. I was sorry that the head in the foreground is just too low to play a part.

-- Charles Curry-Hyde (charles@chho.com.au), April 12, 2001.

todd, do you know if the ginsberg pictures you refer to are on the net somewhere?

-- charles curry-hyde (charles@chho.com.au), April 12, 2001.

hey Charles... I don't frequent Lygon St.. can never get a park around there! Good food to be had though. There's a HCB exhibition in Bendigo at the moment.

-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@unite.com.au), April 12, 2001.

I also like the photo--especially the way the angle of his head and arm are echoed by the angles in the upper left corner of the photo. I think if he had been sitting up straight, his "bullseye" position would have weakened the photo.

-- Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com), April 12, 2001.

this is the pic



-- Charles Curry-Hyde (charles@chho.com.au), September 22, 2001.

http://www. usefilm.com/photographs/gallery/3044.jpg



-- Charles c-h (charles@chho.com.au), September 22, 2001.