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Sami Serola (inactive)

Sami Serola (inactive) club

Posted: 20 Feb 2014

Taken: 19 Feb 2014

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1/30 • f/2.8 • 6.1 mm • ISO 640 •

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trash •
winter •
park •
litter •
trash season •
garbage season •

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There's always someone else...

There's always someone else...
...who cleans the mess. And if not, then it will anyway become subjectively irrelevant within hundred years.

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 Sami Serola (inactive)
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Well, I've been reading Susan Sontag's "On photography", and she more or less claims people usually only photograph "beauty", and if they don't, then it is merely a documentary. But that was in 1970s. I suppose one can shoot something utterly distasteful, and not even try to make any statement, like I did here. So, question is: How to picture something ugly, but not to make it look beautiful, and still make it look attractive?
11 years ago.
 Wierd Folkersma
Wierd Folkersma club
trash season starts :D
11 years ago.
 Sami Serola (inactive)
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Actually I think it is not that bad this year. Too little snow to hide the litter =D
11 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
Diane Putnam club
Sami, I like the way you just take a photo of anything. I am glad you don't care about making everything pretty! When I was still painting, I thought the "meaning" is not my responsibility, it's up to the viewer. (This saves me from having to explain things - haha!)
9 years ago.
 Sami Serola (inactive)
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Thank you Diane. I usually do not the change the scene in any way, when I'm shooting out of the streets. Only at home I do some settings. And I surely photograph just anything what I find out interesting, no matter how pretty of ugly it may look. I of course do have some limits. I usually don't photograph people, because I don't want make anyone look ridiculous. And if something is really really bad taste, like shooting feces without any obvious reason, then there I draw the line. But if I would see a poop in very obscure place, then I would probably photograph even that. But carefully first consider before publishing the shot.

Life is interesting in all forms of it.
9 years ago.

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