Posted by JL Morris on January 2, 2008
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Color,
Critiqued,
Still Life
The subject of this image is not the head in the window or the painted bus but rather the owner who we do not see. We feel we know or have known someone like this in the past. This image tells a story by giving us selective information about the subject’s environment. The trash in the window along with the hummer of the manikin head says this person lives a different life style and marches to a different drummer.
The owner of this bus must be over sixty by now and still living out Wood Stock. I would guess ‘Day Dreams’ sums up the owner’s life style.
I would like to make two suggestions to the photographer. He might consider cropping out the small sliver of the window on the left edge of the frame. It is so small that it is not necessary. Also the colors could be punched up quite a bit to make this image pop off the page and add more of a circus feeling to the story. Particuraly with a title like ‘Colorful Bus’. But perhaps the photographer wants to stick with true colors and a little low key.
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