Photo of the Day (9-3-08)

Matt Coats wrote in his description about this picture that he took it from a “secret vantage point” in Guatemala. I’m reminded about the time I stood on a street corner in Hoi An, Vietnam taking pictures of people in various groupings as they passed by on bicycles or cyclos. It took several shots to get the few that were halfway decent.

I wonder where Coats was standing and how did he find his vantage point. Is he in a shed? There is a towel hanging in the shadows. The blues and the reds in this picture are what first caught my attention. The framing could not be more perfect.

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Photo of the Day (10/23/07)

There is something so visually arresting about this photograph. Sure, it’s nothing more than a simple blue bike leaning against a yellow wall, but for whatever reason it’s actually a whole lot more. Perhaps it’s because bikes are strangely photogenic. And, of course, we just all love bright yellow walls, don’t we? So I guess that everything just came together with perfect balance to transform what should be just an ordinary shot into an extraordinary one.

Congrats go out to Damon Green for turning something so very simple into so much more.

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