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No 2 for me Andrew, the light makes it.
Comment by i-Berg posted on Something Nice for a Change at 09/03/2010 - 05:59
Stefan,
Great thread!
What then, I wonder, of icons and artefacts? Some of photography arguably goes towards the making of those things. So while photos and drawings may be matters 'of record', they may also be something more than that. Perhaps we need to learn to see things using a number of different perspectives - each complementary, none exclusive. So the historical record may be seen using a utilitarian perspective (ie, useful for something or someone); while the same image containing that historical record may also be seen as something 'iconic' (or symbolic?).
This also goes to motive - why was it relatively common for cavepeople to record the animals they saw and hunted? Why commission the Bayeux Tapestry? If the latter was for purely factual/historical reasons, why put dragons in the design for example?
Kris may have some more expertise here, but to me, your question goes straight to matters of culture/s and thus to humankind itself.
IMO, photography is a means to an end, and that end can be art - just as a pen could be used to write, and also to draw.
Great thread!
What then, I wonder, of icons and artefacts? Some of photography arguably goes towards the making of those things. So while photos and drawings may be matters 'of record', they may also be something more than that. Perhaps we need to learn to see things using a number of different perspectives - each complementary, none exclusive. So the historical record may be seen using a utilitarian perspective (ie, useful for something or someone); while the same image containing that historical record may also be seen as something 'iconic' (or symbolic?).
This also goes to motive - why was it relatively common for cavepeople to record the animals they saw and hunted? Why commission the Bayeux Tapestry? If the latter was for purely factual/historical reasons, why put dragons in the design for example?
Kris may have some more expertise here, but to me, your question goes straight to matters of culture/s and thus to humankind itself.
IMO, photography is a means to an end, and that end can be art - just as a pen could be used to write, and also to draw.
Comment by i-Berg posted on Why do we make art? at 09/03/2010 - 05:44
Lovely, crisp images Gary. The golf clubs would likely not be in that shiny condition for long, after a few shots along those fairways (at least if I was using them :blush.
Comment by i-Berg posted on A few from the Bahrain Open 2010 at 08/03/2010 - 09:44
Kris & Matt,
According to the HMS Belfast website -
"The guns in the forward turrets ('A' and 'B') are trained and elevated onto a target some 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) away in north-west London -the London Gateway Motorway Services Area on the M1 - a reminder of the awesome power of naval gunnery in the Second World War!"
Sorry - no postcard
According to the HMS Belfast website -
"The guns in the forward turrets ('A' and 'B') are trained and elevated onto a target some 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) away in north-west London -the London Gateway Motorway Services Area on the M1 - a reminder of the awesome power of naval gunnery in the Second World War!"
Sorry - no postcard
Comment by i-Berg posted on Another Nice Morning!! at 08/03/2010 - 06:49
I see that the design on the flag is the same as the one on the Beaulieu website. Fascinating history, shame about the Dissolution!
Comment by i-Berg posted on Any ideas where this is? at 08/03/2010 - 01:29
Kris,
Does the flag have any significance in that respect?
Does the flag have any significance in that respect?
Comment by i-Berg posted on Any ideas where this is? at 07/03/2010 - 23:41
Mat,
The wood and the ducks are great shots, as is the way you've filled the frame with the robin. The focus on its eye is superb.
The wood and the ducks are great shots, as is the way you've filled the frame with the robin. The focus on its eye is superb.
Comment by i-Berg posted on A Nice Morning at 07/03/2010 - 00:37
Those last two hit the spot Andrew, the BW has certainly done the job.
Comment by i-Berg posted on Boys' Village Part 2: General Views and Interiors at 07/03/2010 - 00:31
Ken,
Can we speculate as to the names of the rest of them then:
1. Come and Get It
2. He came in through the bathroom window
3. Not Guilty
4. Junk
5. You never give me your money...
Posted purely with an intent to cheer up Oggy & family...
Can we speculate as to the names of the rest of them then:
1. Come and Get It
2. He came in through the bathroom window
3. Not Guilty
4. Junk
5. You never give me your money...
Posted purely with an intent to cheer up Oggy & family...
Comment by i-Berg posted on We woz robbed. at 02/03/2010 - 09:29
