Comments on: Heading home

By: Tom Fairclough

Tom Fairclough — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:54:41 +0000

I don’t want to sound like a killjoy to the theorising but surely he’s just going home with his shopping. I just think the lights on St.Georges hall are really nice to look at.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:54:40 +0000

There is much mystery here especially how the man is looking toward the void of darkness. I see what you mean about the left side, but I also think it would lose something if it was not there. Hmmm…

By: Emmett Byrne

Emmett Byrne — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:36:26 +0000

Ah, I was just walking up that way yesterday going to the panto. I can spot Cilla and Jennifer Ellison in the right hand corner.

Great photo and treatment Pete. Also I picked up your book down at the Albert Dock yesterday. In the maritime museum. Great work.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:07:39 +0000

I think that sometimes it’s a very important question to ask – what is it that attracted this man’s attention and for us seems empty and pointless. maybe it just seems so…
anyway, I like this photo, it’s a little bit misterious, a little bit confusing, definitely interesting.

By: Vitor

Vitor — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:47:21 +0000

This shot reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock movies..

“We feel safe where we stand (light) but are curious and at the same time afraid of stepping into the unknown (darkness)”.

By: Tom Fairclough

Tom Fairclough — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:23:28 +0000

I think he knows he’s being followed

By: Jim (365,000 words)

Jim (365,000 words) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:31:39 +0000

I don’t think it’s a bad photo at all. The lighting on him is almost a bit theatrical in look. The contrast between the two sides maybe makes it thematically a bit “unbalanced”, but I think you’re being overly hard to describe it as bad.(Although, taking Mark’s thoughts on a crop, a square crop blocking out most of the left side and putting him centre does give it a different feel.)

By: michele

michele — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:28:29 +0000

i like breathing space and ambiguity in my images so i’m not bothered by the ‘empty’ left side.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:27:10 +0000

I think there’s something to the image, particularly the ‘unknown’ that he’s looking in to – but he does look a bit isolated. You might try a bit of cropping to add intensity; the right to inside the bollard, halve the distance between the bottom and his feet and a similar slice out of the top. It wouldn’t hurt to ramp the contrast on the subject and the cobbles either -more in keeping with your other recent shots.

By: Northshore

Northshore — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:26:52 +0000

He’s thinking…”One of those liver bird lights is broken already!”