Scarborough

Scarborough
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12h54 Monday
07, December
2009
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scarborough, cape town, landscape, beach
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15 Comments
 
  1. Sam Buk

    great take.

  2. MothMan

    interesting foreground - great landscape shot all round.respek

  3. Karabo_Ngoatle

    look at those clouds, killa shot

  4. lebogang nkoane

    Time to pack --- road trip is in order!

  5. George Gladwin Matsheke

    Good Gawd!

  6. Palapala

    Beautiful

  7. lwazi hlophe

    I feel betrayed,this is normal for you,you are not normal, you making it easy for me to see what the subject matter is or subjects are.Please do not conform.I will let it slide cause it is that silly season ,maybe you are just being that "silly".

    critic Mode.

  8. Uno

    lwazi:

    I appreciate your comment and your criticism.
    Without trying to escape a certain wave of summer slouching, credit must be given to the landscape painting approach on this photo, which was intentional. By letting myself be categorized into an inconformist (?) am I not conforming to something? My work happens with whatever I'm feeling at the moment or whatever is my state of mind, I don't force it, by the contrary I let it flow. By adhering to a certain repetition of language, be it confusing the subject matter or giving many meanings in a way that the viewer feels the need to confront the image, I am limiting my scope of expression, which is a defeat of principles for me.
    You must remember that photography is an abstract/surrealist medium per se, independently of how realistic the image is, it still is one interpretation of reality, one chosen moment, one whole world of feelings and events reduced to a frame of time.
    We, as image makers and critics, must feel confortable to explore and move away from our comfort zones. Just the fact that I provoked you this much is a good outcome of this classic image, just don't feel betrayed, it's not a silly image.
    Thank you for your honesty, never hold back. Like someone on this site says: "This is photography".

  9. Khumbelo

    iLike

  10. lwazi hlophe

    Being in the moment and expressing what you feel at that moment even with a click that captures that moment is to live.Maybe my expectation of how you capture moments is let down.

    Do you remember what you were feeling when you captured this moment or the thoughts you had?I am not trying to be right I am trying to understand.

  11. Uno

    For lwazi:

    With legs in cold water and body scorching from a too long sun exposure, I was breathing in the afternoon descent, maybe still with Miles "in a silent way" ringing in my ears - that album tells me of a comunion with the softness and beauty of nature, the kind that I learned from an early age through long walks with my parents. I started by engaging in a very macro way with the reflections in the water as the tide came in, how it danced on the surface as well as in the sand, my eyes swam in between smooth, slippery rocks and algae, all dark and worn out by the wind and water through milenia of repetition. I felt small and vulnerable when confronted with the history behind every little grain of sand, this wasn't about me, this wasn't my moment or even my expression, or even any twisted rendition of reality, this was what it was, without fireworks, without the need for dramatism or a sleek composition, it was an exhale, a letting go of tension, a gaze into a wider distance, away from me, into a timeless frame. The "click" didn't take anything away, it didn't stop the moment of reflection, it went further, it was meditation with a snap in between, it didn't bring anything new to the image in my mind and it didn't make me look the other way looking for another snap. Haven't made any other photo since then, but as always, still ready for those moments that move me.

    This isn't all, I would have to go back to that day in June 1976 on a hospital in JHB when I gave my first cry (or maybe even before that) and retrace all my footsteps UP until now to answer your question, but I think this makes a nice short story.

  12. lwazi hlophe

    Poetic and beautiful matches the moment very well.You would make an amazing editor, your love for words and the still image is the perfect combo.Straight to the heart for the thoughts the dialogue and the still image.

  13. lebogang nkoane

    :) @lwazi and @UP dialogue.

  14. NguJaz

    endless horizon

  15. tyga

    love this...

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