http://roarkjohnson.blogs.com/photos/stranger_a_day/
Well, if ever there was a case of eating humble pie, this is it. I hereby and utterly retract and nullify any and all of the following what I wrote: [snip] >When I see a portrait like some of those shown, with heads chopped off, >or tops of heads cropped, I wonder why, but can't make any sense of why >it would have been done, because the only person I can relate to is >myself, in that situation. I ask myself, 'Self (for it is me), would you >chop off a head?' And I reply, 'No, Self, I would not'. Therefore, it >makes no sense to me, and ipso facto it becomes nonesensical to me, and >therefore I deem it nonesense. I just had another look at the web page, and realised my mistake, and the web page's mistake. In my haste, I only looked at the index page, which shows the thumbnails. A lot of them seem to show cropped versions of the originals - hence the chopped heads to which I refer above. I was so much in a hurry, i didn't even click on a single thumbnail to examine it further - and so didn't give myself a chance to examine the beautiful details within. The portraits are really nice - with good framing and nice spontaneity. They are not nonesense at all - I like the style. If I had taken the time to look at the few earlier, I would now not have to be munching the pie. Sorry Graywolf, about turn. They are not pretentious, they are very nicely done and I am totally embarrassed to say that I made a big mistake by shooting my mouth off 'before all the facts are in' (as George C Scott - Major Buck Turgidson - says in Dr. Strangelove). Apologies for the confusion. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
