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Post by pixelpuffin on Feb 27, 2024 19:07:44 GMT
Wasn’t sure what title to use
I’m a member of several forums which I habitually scroll through most evenings.
Rarely ever now does an image stop me dead in my tracks, not sure if it’s familiarity with the same old same old or people are getting lazy.
It just seems to be an endless stream of pets, flowers, sunsets…etc etc, basically cliche shots that have been done to death.
Virtually every camera today has AF and a built in meter so getting sharp nicely exposed pictures should be expected tbh.
I wonder if it because we are bombarded constantly by images be it from TV, Billboards, SM that we switch off?
I’m trying to think of the last image I saw that stopped me dead…and I can’t.
Anybody else?
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Post by zou on Feb 27, 2024 20:15:40 GMT
Probably the photo of half a girl hanging from a wall in Gaza, having been hit by Israeli attacks. Not something that leaves you easily.
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Post by Kath on Feb 27, 2024 20:44:01 GMT
I'm not sure that I've ever been stopped dead in my tracks by a photo taht wasn't of something horrific (news photos do it quite often. Tiny child dead on a beach after attemtping to get here by boat, the image Zou mentioned above...)
Does it matter? Go and make one yourself if you need something to stop you dead in your tracks.
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Post by pixelpuffin on Feb 27, 2024 22:00:03 GMT
I'm not sure that I've ever been stopped dead in my tracks by a photo taht wasn't of something horrific (news photos do it quite often. Tiny child dead on a beach after attemtping to get here by boat, the image Zou mentioned above...) Does it matter? Go and make one yourself if you need something to stop you dead in your tracks. Luckily I haven’t seen the image Zou spoke of, the dead child, yes that’s burned into my memory, but I’d buried it. Horrific picture. But that’s shock as in we can’t believe what we’re seeing. I meant an image that holds you. The one that comes to mind for me is Mary Ellen Mark “ sorrow at parting” also the “ monkey trainer’s daughter” But also, the vast majority of Vivian Maier’s work too. |
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Post by don on Mar 9, 2024 12:18:30 GMT
Maybe the image of the tree cut down at Sycamore Gap , it didn’t stop me dead but it did sadden me. Not the same way as pictures you’ve mentioned of children etc but as in ‘sticks in my mind’.
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Post by spinno on Mar 9, 2024 12:21:29 GMT
Maybe the image of the tree cut down at Sycamore Gap , it didn’t stop me dead but it did sadden me. Not the same way as pictures you’ve mentioned of children etc but as in ‘sticks in my mind’. |
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Post by kate on Mar 9, 2024 12:22:34 GMT
I remember the first photo I saw from Zou. Must have been on Flickr and it was years ago now. It was an orange-robed monk walking in an enclosure. I loved it. Started off my stalking of zou Ha! |
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Post by don on Mar 9, 2024 12:35:34 GMT
Maybe the image of the tree cut down at Sycamore Gap , it didn’t stop me dead but it did sadden me. Not the same way as pictures you’ve mentioned of children etc but as in ‘sticks in my mind’. It will take about one hundred years for a tree to grow to the statue of the one cut down by vandals. I’m finding that very difficult, |
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Post by don on Mar 9, 2024 12:37:11 GMT
I remember the first photo I saw from Zou. Must have been on Flickr and it was years ago now. It was an orange-robed monk walking in an enclosure. I loved it. Started off my stalking of zou Ha! Speak to your doctor I’m sure you can get medication 💊 to help with that 🤫 |
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Post by aitch on Mar 9, 2024 12:52:08 GMT
There is a picture of a Japanese older woman bathing her grown up daughter who has been very badly harmed (almost completely wasted away) by mercury poisoning (from tainted fish, iirc).
It is in a book of photojournalism I have. I'm not going to look it up because I have to skip those pages as it inspires in me a mixture of tears of sympathy and anger at the bastards who caused and got away with the poisoning.
TMI?
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Post by spinno on Mar 9, 2024 13:24:45 GMT
It will take about one hundred years for a tree to grow to the statue of the one cut down by vandals. I’m finding that very difficult, I know, but it's a start. |
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Post by Chester PB on Mar 9, 2024 16:14:00 GMT
The image a I recall is not a photograph, but something I saw on the M1 motorway about thirty years ago. I was driving south from sunny Luton to joint the M25, and was passed by a Renault Espace (a large family people carrier) that had two very young people in the front seats. It was swerving between lanes and moving at (I guess) over ninety miles per hour. I had to quickly change lanes to keep clear of it when it got very close to my car. A few minutes later I drove under a one of the concrete service bridges across the motorway, and saw that the Espace had swerved so far to the left that it had collided with the structure of the bridge. The vehicle appeared to be about half its original length, and that (like me) no other drivers were bothering to stop because it would be pointless. |
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Post by spinno on Mar 9, 2024 16:31:23 GMT
The image a I recall is not a photograph, but something I saw on the M1 motorway about thirty years ago. I was driving south from sunny Luton to joint the M25, and was passed by a Renault Espace (a large family people carrier) that had two very young people in the front seats. It was swerving between lanes and moving at (I guess) over ninety miles per hour. I had to quickly change lanes to keep clear of it when it got very close to my car. A few minutes later I drove under a one of the concrete service bridges across the motorway, and saw that the Espace had swerved so far to the left that it had collided with the structure of the bridge. The vehicle appeared to be about half its original length, and that (like me) no other drivers were bothering to stop because it would be pointless. imagine the carnage there could have been stolen vehicle |
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 9, 2024 18:33:57 GMT
There is a picture of a Japanese older woman bathing her grown up daughter who has been very badly harmed (almost completely wasted away) by mercury poisoning (from tainted fish, iirc). It is in a book of photojournalism I have. I'm not going to look it up because I have to skip those pages as it inspires in me a mixture of tears of sympathy and anger at the bastards who caused and got away with the poisoning. TMI? Minamata - W Eugene Smith. |
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Post by JohnY on Mar 9, 2024 18:40:31 GMT
Indeed. I saw this yesterday on a newspaper site that allows comments. I didn't comment myself but most comments were making assumptions about the background of the offender. What struck me was that there was no suggestion of dangerous driving and that the police were surprised to find an eleven year old at the wheel. The driver also had the sense to stop rather try to make a run for it. Sure offences have been committed. The driver is likely to be found guilty.
I wonder at the guilt of this young offender's parents. There might well be a young bright child's future set to a life of crime by its background and not its innate morality.
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