JAK wrote:
Yep, never been keen on Marmite sandwiches, yet my old friend at school relished them.
Perhaps you have to like Marmite to appreciate I C M (I C M = Intentional Camera Marmite?)
I'm not intending to sound rude, but I've had colour slides coming out like that and the best use I could find for them was to save the mount for something else! I'm positive had I entered any in a club photographic competition it would have been first to go with the comment, "Nothing's sharp, why did you enter it?"
Maybe times have changed but you can't unlearn the knowledge you picked up in the past. I can see the value of a blurry movement picture in a story sequence where perhaps a fugitive is running through the woods to escape capture, but not as a stand alone image.
I can also appreciate movement of trees in a photo may give the impression of a windy day, but at least the background and forest floor would have to be sharp. That might require combining several images to achieve. But a pure blurry photo just looks like it had the wrong exposure (I've had many of those) or the photo took itself accidentally between other intended shots (I can do that too) but I wouldn't normally like to embarrass myself publishing them to the world, other than to show things to avoid in a camera demonstration.
To me I C M is when one would do a panning shot of, say, a vehicle which itself may not be perfectly sharp if it was a slowish exposure but would have a definite blurry background. The blurriness tells the story of the vehicle speed. Another might be to zoom in on a vehicle coming towards you which achieves a similar, although different, result.
If I hadn't come from the 'old school' which says 'something has to be sharp in a photo' how would you sell me the idea of this new approach to I C M? I'm presuming this is now taught in art schools, or is it purely experimental?
Thanks for hearing me out.

JAK wrote:
Don't get it. Can someone explain please?

Mag07 wrote:
Fantastic Maria. Especially 5,6,8 and 10. But the Washing Line...just brilliant