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November Photography Competion: Foreign

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Not the first picture I've posted here that I risked death to take.

This one was taken with my 35mm and has not been photoshopped.
 
'Tis Morte Point in Devon- taken from a place which is under the sea for 364 days and 23 hours of the year. Look at the 4 little folks for an idea of scale...
 
I'm proper stuck for something to do with this - being up north and all. The last guy that had curly hair up here they hung from a tree and the lass with a dark complexion was burnt at the stake. It is annoying as hell as I have the ideas but there isnothing 'foreign' up in northumberland, well nothing that hasn't been adopted and called British, even if it isn't British it has been encapusalted in a British shell. Such as Mecca Bingo - which was my first idea.

May try and find a monkey in Middlesbrough or a mackum in toon.

Ho hum... I'll take a trip through to toon this week and have a look around. It is at least four or five years since I went out properly in Newcastle so I may find something.
 
firky said:
I'm proper stuck for something to do with this - being up north and all. The last guy that had curly hair up here they hung from a tree and the lass with a dark complexion was burnt at the stake. It is annoying as hell as I have the ideas but there isnothing 'foreign' up in northumberland, well nothing that hasn't been adopted and called British, even if it isn't British it has been encapusalted in a British shell. Such as Mecca Bingo - which was my first idea.

May try and find a monkey in Middlesbrough or a mackum in toon.

Ho hum... I'll take a trip through to toon this week and have a look around. It is at least four or five years since I went out properly in Newcastle so I may find something.
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I think you need to start thinking outside the box firky :cool:
 
lobster said:
thats a sad situation in palestine :(
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or indicative of what your precognitions say about an image :)

to save time; it was taken just before eid, the gun is a a toy. were he dressed as a cowboy and was making the same pose would you say the same thing?

Fact of the matter is that kids play with toy guns accross the world, indeed it's likely that either you or some one you knew as a child at some point had a cap gun, a bb gun, a spud gun, an air pistol or an air rilfe. I'm sure you proably played cops and robbers, cowboys and injuns, allies vs germans or some variant of it. either that or i expect you are famlilair enough with western culture to know of these cultral artifacts.

This is merely a different take the same artifacts.

Is it more depressing to think it's a child with a gun or because when you saw the image you assumed it was?

I choose the image particularlly because it fits the theme foreign. Both the Child with a gun image is one which although familar always provokes a reaction of it being in some way wrong, it jars, it's not right, it's forgien too look at. Secondly, because after the punchline is revealled... it's not a real gun. That makes you question you own reaction to the assumption, that we have been conditioned into seeing something in one light. Now that you look at it in another again it promotes the same feeling, it jars, it's not right, it's forgine to look at.

personally i see it as a happy picture of a child playing with his new toy; although of course i'm aware of the conitations and inference of the shot.
 
zenie said:
I think you need to start thinking outside the box firky :cool:
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I was parodising the british perception of what constitutes as being foreign. Just didn't wish to be explicit as Alf Garnet although it appears I should of been. :p
 
firky said:
I was parodising the british perception of what constitutes as being foreign. Just didn't wish to be explicit as Alf Garnet although it appears I should of been. :p
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I thought you were just being a cock as per usual :):p;)
 
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