Comments: snow reader

that guys hillarious! great shot sam.

Posted by sigma at January 13, 2004 12:20 AM

cool... :)

Posted by lynx at January 13, 2004 01:42 AM

A sympathetic personnality :D

Posted by Tatou at January 13, 2004 03:27 AM

You see dead people!

Posted by ila at January 13, 2004 06:31 AM

Probably an FBI agent on an extended stake-out. Check for eye-holes in the book.

Posted by lump at January 13, 2004 08:32 AM

You know, it's a great shot, but the fact that you got him twice - one in each season - makes the series even more fantastic.

Posted by houser at January 13, 2004 09:02 AM

Great photo!

By the way, how are you liking your Digital Rebel? I'm loving mine...

Cheers!

Posted by cloudshift at January 13, 2004 09:03 AM

so far i have enjoyed your site. bravo!!!!!!!!

Posted by bebe at January 13, 2004 09:59 AM

Nice shot!
he doesn't feel cold there?

Posted by ced at January 13, 2004 10:35 AM

you should do an entire series on this guy. I especially like how the entire bench is snow-covered except the area around where he sits. He must spread his arms out once in a while and kick back. That or he sat there through a snowstorm.

I also am interested in how you're enjoying your Dig Reb, I've had mine for a week now and I really love it. I would be very interested in learning your post-production process. I like the way you process your images into b/w

Posted by BradKnapp at January 13, 2004 11:42 AM

I LOVE this shot, especially the fact that the guy is wearing mittens while reading. I've done that before, and it's so hard to turn the pages that it's hardly worth it... he must have perfected the technique.

Posted by kat at January 13, 2004 12:52 PM

How much post-processing do you do on images like this? Presumably you shoot in colour then convert to b&w in Photoshop? Do you typically do much more than that?

--- Doug

Posted by Doug at January 13, 2004 02:26 PM

so strange

Posted by Roozbeh at January 13, 2004 03:09 PM

Man, you know, usually I hate the cold. In this guy's case, though, anything that constitutes a reason for him to put and keep a shirt on is OK in my book.

Posted by ed at January 13, 2004 03:28 PM

lol at lump's FBI comment. quirky fellar. most of us would prefer to be sitting by a fire on a day like today. duno about you in toronto, but it was -30C in ottawa today. had to have been a really good book.

Posted by pat reardon at January 14, 2004 12:02 AM

i really want to know what he is reading. it must be a very interesting book.

Posted by negar at January 14, 2004 07:59 AM

poor him!

Posted by someone out there at January 14, 2004 12:54 PM

This is amazing and profound. Yes indeed.

Posted by Erich Ian at January 15, 2004 06:26 PM

Bastard.
How come he doesn't have a friggin' job like the rest of us?!
Is my envy really easy to read? Sheesh.

Posted by scott at January 15, 2004 09:14 PM

this photo is perfectly shot in contrast and blance. but the truly moving part of this photo is not the artistic imagery of the artwork itself, but the questions that come to be within the views mind at the site of this person. For me the question most haunting is can this person truly be so content with such a simple pleasure surrounded in such a cold and empty place alone. In my cause I would be depressed beyond reason to exist so isolated in that place. I wonder is he truly happy and if so what makes him so content.... This photo raises the curiousity and concern equally of the viewer... I like it... SAM make a book of your photos i want to buy it

Posted by scott at October 1, 2004 02:40 AM