ahhh...I LIKE this one. so much emotion well composed in this snap. and perfectly metaphored for so much human experience both within and around us. reminds me of your macro broken window picture at whitbey psychiatric hospital.
Posted by dogstone at June 14, 2005 01:33 AMnice
Posted by mamad at June 14, 2005 02:05 AMthat sure is a shattered window! nice shot!
Posted by aashish at June 14, 2005 02:17 AMI like the DOF. looks old and worn.
Posted by Mark at June 14, 2005 02:58 AMI came to this site by chance after following a link and this is the first thing I see. What a great first impression.
Posted by Stephen Topsy at June 14, 2005 03:23 AMAnother whitby shot, cool.
If I were living in Canada, I would definitly stuff my memory card with photos in whitby.
Sam, Inspired by you, I am opening my own photoblog! http://sns.chezjeff.net
I am no professional photographer but I just love the idea of photoblogging.
Posted by Jeff at June 14, 2005 04:54 AMThis is wonderful, Sam. It almost looks like what it might feel like to break through an eggshell. When you add to that the location of the shot the combination is nothing short of a powerful statement on the ravages of mental illness. Really wonderful work.
Posted by myla at June 14, 2005 04:55 AMreally great!!
Posted by Liisa Anderson at June 14, 2005 05:15 AMAhhhh....great! Back to what you do so well, discovering beauty in the tatters of man's attempts to formulate order - or maintain its disorder. Wonderful geometry in your framing and use of foreground and background angles. I could see this one hundred times in any abandoned building and still not capture it the way you have.
Posted by Bill at June 14, 2005 07:16 AMBroken, and abandoned. The visages of my hopes are torn. Forlorn and dredged, the hopes that maybe it was all critically unexcitable. Yet there is hope in the view. What may or might be seen just on the other side. Get there and the composure returns like a rush of the pendulum swinging back to give you the chance to right the wrong.
Posted by bjam at June 14, 2005 08:38 AMVery cool focus on the shot.
It looks like a rorshach diagram - fitting for a psych facility.
I'd say it's a sailboat.
Posted by shark8 at June 14, 2005 08:42 AMdid you use a flash?
Posted by Ry at June 14, 2005 08:59 AMwow. first post!
so...how many shots of this horror house do you have?!??
Posted by eo at June 14, 2005 09:43 AMThis is amazing. Truly truly amazing. If a shattered psyche could be photographed, this is how it would look like. touching.
Posted by f at June 14, 2005 10:40 AMThis one looks particularly weird in the widget.
Posted by Mark at June 14, 2005 11:29 AMwow you must really like this place
Posted by Hugh at June 14, 2005 02:37 PMwow shoking one
Posted by saleh at June 14, 2005 02:49 PMPlease, tell me that you at least cropped it in Photoshop. Can't believe so much perfection. It's a snapshot full of meaning. Congratulations.
Posted by Marcelo at June 14, 2005 05:32 PMHey I live there, actually near there. Nice to see some local work posted.
Posted by Franjo at June 14, 2005 10:25 PMYou'd have to be crazy to paint over a window.
Glad to see some more dark and disturbing material. It can't all sunshine and puffy clouds.
Posted by qoJ at June 15, 2005 02:16 PMWow - I absolutely love it! I love the dof and the richness of the tattered subject. This photo tells a story.
Posted by Abe at June 21, 2005 12:30 PM