Personal photography

I do not take photos of my self !

Doc Watson wrote:I do not take photos of my self !

It's nothing to do with self portraits, emu.

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Subject: Personal Photography Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:21 pm

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Ok, I am into photography and I usually walk around to take some photos.
I'm not very talented, but I would like to know your opinion about some of my photos

there is my web "portfolio":
http://universe.carbonmade.com/

Thank you for your time


If you have one of your own, please let us know

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rNjRyP_9QIkJ:acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/t13-personal-photography+%22personal+photography%22+%2Bacrosstheuniverse.forumotion&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

Yup! Impressed? You bet!

felix wrote:

Doc Watson wrote:I do not take photos of my self !

It's nothing to do with self portraits, emu. I am not Emu

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Subject: Personal Photography Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:21 pm

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Ok, I am into photography and I usually walk around to take some photos.
I'm not very talented, but I would like to know your opinion about some of my photos

there is my web "portfolio":
http://universe.carbonmade.com/

Thank you for your time


If you have one of your own, please let us know

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rNjRyP_9QIkJ:acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/t13-personal-photography+%22personal+photography%22+%2Bacrosstheuniverse.forumotion&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

It was a throw away line . An attempt at humour . and Doc Watson is not Emu.

I don't have good personal photos but I like these:

Lost highway: my avatar, and the shot I took of the last half mile of road that James Dean drove on.

Doc Watson wrote:[quote="It was a throw away line . An attempt at humour . and Doc Watson is not Emu.

sometimes it is hard to tell the difference emu and mr watson, other than the name change.

Salamity Jane wrote:

precinct14 wrote:Lost highway: my avatar, and the shot I took of the last half mile of road that James Dean drove on.

Cool photo. Why not use Dean's famous last words as your tag line: "That guy's gotta stop... He'll see us."

You know, Sal, I'm not sure if James Dean even spoke those words. They were printed in a magazine interview with Rolf Weutherich (Dean's passenger) when he was recovering in hospital. Yet he also claimed that he couldn't remember the crash itself. Dean is also alleged to have murmered under his breath, just before: 'Isn't life wonderful?'. Poetic irony, but fact?

I made this about 17 years ago. The interviews were mainly conducted via transatlantic phone calls. It was put up on youtube without my final consent, unfortunately. The full version is around 15', but the editor hacked out all the movie clips and stills, to get round any legal issues, plus some interesting build-up to the crash sequence, and an extended, montaged music piece closer. Pity, as the full version flows far better. He also came up with the teasingly sensationalist header 'The Truth?'. It does have the only interview with the only surviving witness to the crash. You even get to hear me ask a question, towards the end!



Actually, you could remove my piggy line, and replace it with 'More than a couple of times I've walked that old highway. Gives you a real feel for the 50's', (it's a quote that was removed from the youtube piece) to go under the avatar- if it'll fit. Thanks!

precinct, I remember a picture you posted in the same thread of the old ATU. It was a house (a bar or maybe a shop) illuminated and everything was covered with snow. Someone said it had a David Lynch feel and it was true. If I'm not wrong, you also posted another picture of a street and it was snowing. Both were awesome. And I like this last one too.

Salamity Jane wrote:Nice, very interesting and moving. The Doors soundtrack fits surprisingly well. So you're a documentary filmmaker?

Thanks. No, I'm not a documentary film-maker. This was just a 'hobby project'.

guacamayo wrote:precinct, I remember a picture you posted in the same thread of the old ATU. It was a house (a bar or maybe a shop) illuminated and everything was covered with snow. Someone said it had a David Lynch feel and it was true. If I'm not wrong, you also posted another picture of a street and it was snowing. Both were awesome. And I like this last one too.

Thankyou. The snowing path picture would have been mine, but the other one was pinhedz', because I remember making the David Lynch allusion about it. Not sure if it's a pinhedz photo. He can confirm, when he shows up next. By the way, I'm terrible with changing usernames. Er, who were you back then?

Oh I thought it was yours

I was K in the old ATU but I didn't post much

tatiana wrote:

Doc Watson wrote:[quote="It was a throw away line . An attempt at humour . and Doc Watson is not Emu.

sometimes it is hard to tell the difference emu and mr watson, other than the name change.

Tats , your comments have been noted.

guacamayo wrote:

I am going to paint this. I have already drawn it. If the result is not too bad I'll post it here. Painting the bridge is gonna be hard. I know it isn't a "wonderful" photo but I love the red/orange/yellow light at night there.

Yes, it was a house like that... and yes, the effect is lost hehehe

No I didn't take this photograph, it was Bill Brandt.


But I masterly painted it:


It is really darker if you see it

I didn't try to do it exactly like the picture, I couldn't have done it but I didn't try... (if only Bob Dylan had lent me some tracing paper...)

That's my first and latest painting.
But I'm waiting for a friend to send me a photograph I took the other day... and I'm going to try to paint it in watercolor

...how talented you are asdf!
...I remember you once used the image for your avatar. I thought it was a painting and am surprised to learn that it's a photo.
...I'd never heard of Bill Brandt so I googled him after your post.
...I really like this one. It's called "London 1934"

blue moon wrote:...I remember you once used the image for your avatar.

That was when I was painting it.

If my memory serves me well, that photo is from a series of photos called Nightwalk that starts with a girl standing up from bed. This is another one from it:


Nightwalk: Eva scared

Looks like Eva is scared of the same man in London 1934...

...oh, what a sense of menace in that photo!

I found this one for Underground eddie:


People Sheltering in the Tube, Elephant and Castle Underground Station,
Bill Brandt, 1940 © Bill Brandt Archive Ltd.

^

Thanks, Moony.

Got something similar in the book.

My new work of art:



... that's me

The pic might not be very good but the place was beautiful with fog. Yesterday. A friend and I. That thing in the background is the cathedral.

It is my city, Segovia.

pinhedz wrote:Ah, yes--where they have the aquaducts.

well... there's only one hehe

pinhedz wrote:I just ran across this:

thank you

my doggy Leo in the mountains here