Gee, you’re asking an engineer about artistic things. Okay, but don’t expect much.
1: Guy in Woods
2: Playground
Alone
Loneliness
3: If James Dean Lived
Gotta Light?
The first doesn’t say much to me.
The second feels lonely and alone - just one kid by himself on a playground. Maybe a bit of peace, but more a sense of longing for company.
First strike on the last was the James Dean thing, but I also pick up on the business, the marketplace idea. Something about urban commotion.
Since it was mentioned, I did like barky, too. Something about the confusion, order and chaos overlapping, kinda like a spiderweb. Nature expansive. The perspective up through the tree limbs gives a sense of closeness while reaching to the empty sky. Also peacefulness.
Nice compostion mega. Good work! You should probably take my slightly negative takes with a grain of salt this morning. yawn Grumpy pills… hmmm now there’s an idea for a photo…
I don’t have a suggestion for the first pic, but I’d call the second Pendulum, giving the impression of time passing and loneliness. The third I’d name A Break in the Action, since it gives me the sense of a break during a movie shoot.
The first one: “Wadya mean I should finish eating these chips before I go to the outhouse? I’m from Saskatchewan.”
The second one: “The reason Saskatchewan switched to lethal injection”
(just kidding around)
“Nice photos. Yucky name suggestions (too Hallmark Calendaresque)”
Niggle wrote:
“Of course they are… that’s what naming pictures is all about.”
Meaning no disrespect, Niggle, I totally, totally disagree.
To use a comparable situation:
As a TV producer at a local station, I would often need to pick stock music from our stations’s stock music collection. The tracks in these collections had the lamest – that is, pseudo gradiose, dreadfully sappy or overpromising – titles that would send me and my fellow producers into hysterics, even before we played them. (“Joni, Joni. Wait til you hear this title: ‘Lonely Tumbleweed Lullabye!’ Bwahahahaha…!”) Funny thing is that generally the music wasn’t half bad. But, oh those laughable titles!
I don’t know about you, but a drippy, sappy, or Hallmarky photo title makes me snicker or roll my eyes. Why hurt your case before you even present it?
Do they have to have titles at all? Isn’t the point of visual art to leave it open to interpretation? What immediately struck me, for instance, about the photo of the kid on the swing was not loneliness, but that he’s moving over into the space of the other swing. Usually, swings go back and forth in their prescribed arcs. This kid’s seeing what’s up in the arc of the other swing. I mean, that’s a metaphor you can pick up and run with. If it had a title like “Desolate Recess” or something, it might head an interpretation like that off at the pass. What if you just titled them after the dates you took them or something? That’s just my opinion, though. I could be wrong.
Mega, I loved the pics. Don’t have any better name suggestions, tho. So, I thought I recognized the guy in the movie-set one…do you know his name? It’s gonna bug me, but I think he looks like the guy that was in Grease???
#2:"As Darker Grows The Night, Hope Emits a Brilliant Light."
#3:“Role Model?” or “I Am My Own Definition of Cool” but I think that “Fabricated Hero” seems to fit really well.
#1: umm…“Overcompensation”? I really don’t have a clue for that one.
Mega, you live in Saskatoon? I didn’t think there was anyone from Sask. on this board (though I have only been here for a short while). I’m from Regina.
