Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Digital Photography -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (10446)	4/17/2005 3:08:26 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21662

I'll help out with the third paragraph of the article Frank provided. It refers to the photo that I own. That paragraph surely wouldn't have been written if the author had done more research on the photograph and the photographer that it refers to. He wrote: In the photograph of an Egyptian pyramid, above, the presence of three cloaked figures huddled in the desert pushes the image into that dreamy, unknowable place: Who are these travelers, and why have they stopped here? What is their plan? The people might have lived near the area, but I doubt very seriously that they were travellers, that they just happened to be there or that the photographer was able by sheer happenstance to include them as important foreground elements. Just the opposite, I'm convinced that they were models positioned exactly where the photographer wanted them. The photographer took at least two views of the pyramid, one from the southwest and one from the east. To photograph both views of the pyramid would have required travelling a substantial distance. Yet both pictures have the same two foreground elements, a group of three people mentioned by the author and a second element consisting of a man and a donkey. Those foreground elements are arranged almost exactly the same in both photos. Perhaps more important, other photos he took of similar landscapes in other parts of Egypt involve similar foreground elements. So, while it might be a romantic approach of the author to ask who these travellers are, what their plan is and why they stopped there at the same time the photographer was there, I think the answer is more practical than romantic: the photographer had the good sense to include people in the foreground to provide a sense of scale and to show his market -- Europeans buying travel books -- how Egyptians typically dress.

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (10446)	4/17/2005 3:09:44 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Respond to of 21662

>> Maybe the stars are arranged in some sort of scary alignment, but there's an interesting series of coincidences going on. There's only one thing to do. Buy a lottery ticket today. uf