The walk of life!

[Daisy Mae]

Why shouldn't grocery shopping be artistic?

[Donald]

Why shouldn't grocery shopping be artistic?

Because ............! Oh, it would just take too long to explain!

I'm wondering why you chose to have so much at the bottom? Is this at 9:16? I looked at it as a 4:5 or 5:7 ratio (cropping at the bottom). I accept that I might be being too boring and conventional here.

[Daisy Mae]

Because ............! Oh, it would just take too long to explain!

I'm wondering why you chose to have so much at the bottom? Is this at 9:16? I looked at it as a 4:5 or 5:7 ratio (cropping at the bottom). I accept that I might be being too boring and conventional here.

It's a protest many of us on Flicker are involved in.

Some weeks back the 'powers that be' decided to change the lay-out and display pics shoulder to shoulder with no spaces in between. ( can you imagine that in a gallery space?)

So..much as I don't like borders, it's the only way to achieve a little distance between pics on ones photostream.

If you mean the proportions in the 'inner shot'..that's down to me and purely because it looked better.

I don't 'do' proportional crops to a formula..9:16 is the last train to Clarksville to me..

I just liked it.

[Polar01]

Sharon: I guess you were in Dire Straits.

Cheers:

Allan

PS: I couldn't help myself.

[Digital]

Sharon, I will never look at grocery shopping the same again. It is an uphill battle.



Bruce

[Colin Southern]

Slightly off-topic, but some people never cease to amaze me when it comes to shopping trolleys. Around these parts it's not unheard of for people to walk home with their groceries in a trolley - and then just leave the trolley on the footpath a mile or more away.

I really have to wonder about some people.

[Mike Buckley]

I'm still trying to wrap my arms around this one.

More off-topic with apologies to Sharon

Around these parts it's not unheard of for people to walk home with their groceries in a trolley - and then just leave the trolley on the footpath a mile or more away.

My local grocery chain solved that problem by installing an electronic device that locks the wheels on the cart once they are pushed to the perimeter of the store's parking lot.

[Colin Southern]

My local grocery chain solved that problem by installing an electronic device that locks the wheels on the cart once they are pushed to the perimeter of the store's parking lot.

Sounds like a good approach - from what I've heard, those trolleys are around $400 each.

[FootLoose]

Why shouldn't grocery shopping be artistic?

I recently read that photographers should shoot the things they like AND the things they hate - the beautiful AND the ugly. The challenge is to make the ugly interesting. Good luck with it, Sharon

[Brownbear]

Hi Sharon,

I like this one, a lot... I prefer it over the the moon or face shot because the light lets me see what it is, at first glance. I see this as a dark interpretation of today's modern world, or perhaps the day before a world wide crisis with the dark part representing pure misery... LOL

[Digital]

Hi Sharon,

I like this one, a lot... I prefer it over the the moon or face shot because the light lets me see what it is, at first glance. I see this as a dark interpretation of today's modern world, or perhaps the day before a world wide crisis with the dark part representing pure misery... LOL

What a cheery thought.


Bruce

[Brownbear]

Hi Bruce,

I've been doing LR tutorials every day for a couple of weeks, and working on my post processing skills. Perhaps it is just my mood.

So let's say this image represent a bright new emerging world, where everyone is stealing groceries from the store in the dark of the night to distribute to all the poor starving people in today's world... Several Robin Hood's on a mission for the better of mankind... The dark represents the beautiful light soon to arrive...

What a cheery thought.


Bruce

[Digital]

Hi Bruce,

I've been doing LR tutorials every day for a couple of weeks, and working on my post processing skills. Perhaps it is just my mood.

So let's say this image represent a bright new emerging world, where everyone is stealing groceries from the store in the dark of the night to distribute to all the poor starving people in today's world... Several Robin Hood's on a mission for the better of mankind... The dark represents the beautiful light soon to arrive...

I do not know how to reply.


Bruce

[Brownbear]

LOL.... You just did!

I do not know how to reply.


Bruce

[nimitzbenedicto]

Her creations are best savored with the inner self.

Analytical minds obscure ........................

[Bobobird]

I have no "smart" comments.

But.......... do like this one.

[travis4567]

Like the photo..Christina, awesome comments!!

[Donald]

If you mean the proportions in the 'inner shot'..that's down to me and purely because it looked better.

And that is the best possible reason there could be!

[jcuknz]

When I visited your page I thought the same as you ... dreadful!

BUT so is your use of a white border .... simply NOT done with projected and monitor images as the glare of peak white ... whatever the projector or the screen produces is very bad. It sets off a picture nicely when quite small 5/800 pixels ... two pixels on your 300 wide image bit more at bottom is questionable as also the tone of grey.


More work of course ... two instead of one 'add borders' but worth it to beat the philistines
I do enjoy CiC for its option of a dark background. edit seems we picked almost the same
I like the space at the bottom.

[jcuknz]

Gardens New World in Dunedin have a collection of older trolleys which may be taken home so long as the destination is known to GDNS NW for pick-up .... lot of students and impoverished folk in NEV.

I was slightly shocked at having to pay a UK Pound to use a trolley on my first visit to one in Eltham SE9
[Well it was SE9 when I lived there sixty years ago ]