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# Apparently abandoned pram, Tintagel, 2009

(couldn't find sight nor sound of mum, dad or kid anywhere. And nothing done to the pic but a small amount of brightness/contrast alteration)

*EDIT* and now I feel a bit bad about posting it in a new thread, rather than in the thread below. Damn these sudden bursts of enthusiasm!
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 9:35, archived)
# The silent witness to a great tragedy
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:14, archived)
# That's pretty much the worst-case-scenario that was going through my mind when I took the pic.
And it's a mystery I never solved, as the wind snapped at my trousers and the questions squirmed through my mind.
Cos my mate finished up his grail-nonsense in the former guts of the castle and it became time to fuck off to the pub.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:41, archived)
# it was probably abandoned while they went for a walk
where it would've been too much of a hassle to drag the buggy. just left it and picked it up on the way back.
we used to do it all the time
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sun 8 May 2011, 12:18, archived)
# Why am I looking at your dog?
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:20, archived)
# On that outcrop to the left of the picture, a little off the picture,
I went out and sat on the rocks, looking at the sea and thought to myself "This would be a nice place to sit and play guitar".

I then stood up to walk off and, as I put my hand down to help myself up, placed it on a plectrum.

That is my story, there is little to add to it.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:23, archived)
# I hope you played some air guitar with it
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:32, archived)
# That's a fiendishly windy spot.
It'd be a struggle to hold on to a baby there, let alone a plectrum.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:32, archived)
# That is lovely
The overcontrast gives a very surreal feeling to the shot, almost like a painting. The red of the pram is such a great contrast to the earthtones of the landscape and the vivid blue of the sea.

Very nice.
(I helped save b3ta! Coubs Salty toothpaste, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:21, archived)
# Yet the hard lines of the shadows cast a harsh contrast on this idyllic scene, making the observer aware of the fact that in this world, nothing is ever absolutely perfect
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:34, archived)
# I imagine Lloyd Grossmans voice reading this
Thanks, I hate the voice
(I helped save b3ta! simbosan is too tired, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:48, archived)
# There, there.
This'll soothe you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=towd9vZWDJg
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:51, archived)
# Haha, forgot about that one
Much obliged, I feel purged
(I helped save b3ta! simbosan is too tired, Sun 8 May 2011, 11:03, archived)
# thanks for pointing that out
somehow, I actually looked past the shadows but now you've said it, all I can see are the shadows. Photoshoppery is in order.
(I helped save b3ta! Coubs Salty toothpaste, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:49, archived)
# Whoa, hang on a sec!
Now you want me to 'shop the fucker? I was sitting here happy that people liked it the way it was!
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:54, archived)
# I'm kidding,
I don't believe in doing things to actual photos that you couldn't do in an actual darkroom. Shadows are shadows and there isn't to much you can do. It looks real and beautiful but its a little distracting now I've been told to stare at them.
(I helped save b3ta! Coubs Salty toothpaste, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:56, archived)
# There we go
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 8 May 2011, 11:01, archived)
#
is the corgi like one of those american pickups with a hot tub in the back?
(I helped save b3ta! Coubs Salty toothpaste, Sun 8 May 2011, 11:04, archived)
# Silly mediocre.
*wipes all kinds of laughter-induced substances out of eyes, screen and keyboard*
You forgot to compo this winning image.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 11:05, archived)
# that ballerina is squirting menstrual blood in the queens eye
superb
(I helped save b3ta! Avast is still alive!!!!, Sun 8 May 2011, 12:19, archived)
# Thanks for looking and making a considered response.
I now wish I had loads of equally-good photos to spill out on flickr, but no. That's the best photo I've ever taken, by a country mile.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:48, archived)
# All it takes is one awesome photo
this is the awesomeness of digital, you can take a hundred and only get one good shot but because there are no expensive processing fees, it all seems worth it. I barely even pick up my me super or k1000 anymore becuse it costs so much for the paper and to hire the university darkroom. When I can afford all the bits though, I'm fitting out my study with my own darkroom.

Incase you are interested though, theis is my Flickr, which I haven't updated in ages. I don't think I've even shown it to anyone before.
www.flickr.com/photos/jlmeehan/
edit: now I remember 1. why I hated the kit lens and 2. why I should've been shooting raw.
(I helped save b3ta! Coubs Salty toothpaste, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:54, archived)
# Even the first page of these is great.
You've clearly got a fondness for low angles, vanishing-point perspective, and other ways in which architects wished people regarded their environments.
*clix*
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 11:02, archived)
# Thankyou very much
but these photos would have come out much better had I not been pretending that trying to shoot no-flash and no-tripod at night was a good idea.

As for the vanishing point perspective, I did photography GCSE and A level and my teacher was insistant that following lines was the only way to shoot and therefore everything I take has an all too prescribed feel.

I'm glad you like them though.
(I helped save b3ta! Coubs Salty toothpaste, Sun 8 May 2011, 11:09, archived)
# I do like them. So there. I can believe it's possible to follow the rules and still take arrestingly good pics.
Now photograph some obviously foreign and dirt-poor children looking really unhappy. Then the commissions'll come rolling in.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 8 May 2011, 11:21, archived)
# Well then
I've added some newer ones to flickr of which the ones in the 'new lens' album are by far my best work. Thanks for your feedback. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Coubs Salty toothpaste, Sun 8 May 2011, 12:00, archived)
# I stayed at Camelot for a week, the hotel just to the right of shot.
One of the requests was to bring a plant/flower with you, and then place it somewhere in the grounds before they'd give you the room keys.
Pretty mad place, with an even madder landlord - who also doubled as the resident artist. I spent most of the week telling him I didn't want to buy any pictures.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 8 May 2011, 12:45, archived)