ART, what Pool Boy liked, what I liked

kittynh

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So at the end of the day cleaning up some of the masses of photographs I took on my recent trip (to end up who knows where doing who knows what...) I decided to show Pool Boy.

Always a mistake, as he didn't marry me for my art skills (or lack of, he likes dogs playing poker. One of these days I'm going to do one for him).

Mind you, I only got through a FEW photos. But this was HIS favorite...

 
his even has a rainbow ghost in the corner!!!

My favorite from the days work was THIS one....




I ask you, can this Pool Boy /Pool owner relationship survive?
 
black and white photos aren't as good as color photos in his opinion.

geez! Thank goodness he can work the skimmer.
 
I prefer the first one too. It's possible the second one suffers from the compression here, but it looks a little soft and I'm not crazy about the composition either. The first one pulls your eye through the archway pretty effectively.
 
photoshop

My editor takes the photos and he'll make them look way better, but I like to mess around with them also.

Matted and framing helps too!

I like the first photo. But I like the lines of the second more. I often like how something looks, more than if it looks like something.
 
I'd pick the second photo over the first any day, Kitty. :)

I'm an artist and I have a family full of people who don't appreciate art unless it matches the drapes or the sofa. I also live in an area that artistically thrives on landscapes and still-lifes that are so simplistic in composition that I don't even bother going to galleries that show traditional work.

I categorize myself as a surrealist and really appreciate art that is slightly "off-center." To me your second photograph is quite a bit more interesting in that it allows ME the chance to explain it using my imagination. Granted, my imagination is somewhat dark, so it's easy for me to imagine that you've photographed a pile of alien bones, or visited the site of a horrible genocide. Bones have always captivated me as a subject, primarily because of their texture and the knowledge that they were once a biological "armature" for a living creature. This photo has a much more surreal quality than the first one, and that immediately attracts my attention.

The first photo is well done and expertly composed; I especially liked the depth and the fact that it does draw the eye into the courtyard beyond the gateway, but there is no tension (IMHO - and for my purposes only) that would pull me into a closer inspection. Now, if the architecture were gothic and there were an eerie figure in the window above the gateway . . . ;)
 
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