I like the last one :) but generally I avoid the fetishisation of ugliness in my artistic tastes unless there is an undertone of anger that we have to live this way and reinforce the ugliness.
I love random (or apparently random) juxtapositions. Take another look at all the texts in #2- and how they bounce off one another. That lorry sliding into view was a gift. I didn't notice it (and what it said) until I checked the picture afterwards.
I still tend to have subjective standards about beauty though. This is not a reflection on the quality of your pictures, which are great - it is my preferred aesthetic sensitivity. Examples here: http://ideealisme.livejournal.com/125912.html#cutid1 (I'm rubbish at photography but the scenery was a gift!)
That picture with the rainbow is particularly lovely.
I do conventionally "beautiful" subjects too. My aim (my conscious aim, anyway) is always to try and capture the particularity of a place or a view or an object in the landscape.
And if there's a certain ambiguity or oddity in the subject, so much the better.
Perhaps my feelings are coloured by the aesthetic damage wreaked on my country by venal greed at its most unchecked. (I would use a stronger word than "damage" but I fear causing offence.) That makes me more likely to go for utopian pictures!
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Date: 2009-04-21 12:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-21 02:11 pm (UTC)I love random (or apparently random) juxtapositions. Take another look at all the texts in #2- and how they bounce off one another. That lorry sliding into view was a gift. I didn't notice it (and what it said) until I checked the picture afterwards.
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Date: 2009-04-21 02:35 pm (UTC)I still tend to have subjective standards about beauty though. This is not a reflection on the quality of your pictures, which are great - it is my preferred aesthetic sensitivity. Examples here: http://ideealisme.livejournal.com/125912.html#cutid1 (I'm rubbish at photography but the scenery was a gift!)
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:45 pm (UTC)I do conventionally "beautiful" subjects too. My aim (my conscious aim, anyway) is always to try and capture the particularity of a place or a view or an object in the landscape.
And if there's a certain ambiguity or oddity in the subject, so much the better.
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:07 pm (UTC)Perhaps my feelings are coloured by the aesthetic damage wreaked on my country by venal greed at its most unchecked. (I would use a stronger word than "damage" but I fear causing offence.) That makes me more likely to go for utopian pictures!