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Greggie wrote --
>>>Luis, although your comment has given me a good mental workout, I cannot come up with a suitable definition of the term 'saccharine title' as used in this context. The closest I can come is 'trite with perhaps an adolescent bent'. Am I correct? <<<
More like "cloyingly sentimental". Apologies for the feline humor that followed.
>>>As for the composition being heavily weighted to the right, I agree. That was intentional. If you're intimately familiar with chain link fence (as all true photographers are. Go cell block H!) <<<<
[ How did you know about CBH ? That guy deserved to....nevermind. I was innocent. As to intimacy with chain link.....um never been that desperate....we were allowed conjugal visits. Does this mean I should reassess your picture from a Freudian angle ? Is this the reaon for the symbolism for the downward slope and title? ]
>>>you'll notice the weave in this image is abnormal. In fact the image has been rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise. The plant was in fact growing upwards but I felt that projected the feeling that you got from the image. The feeling of nature's triumph over man's intrusion. I had hoped that by rotating the image and turning the plant into a declining line graph, the opposite feeling would be evoked. Alas, this is apparently not so.<<<
Now, that is interesting, that the plant's interaction with the fence still comes across as triumphant (to the other reviewer and I) even after your manipulations/being rotated and "graphed" downwardly. At least that explains the corner-weighing of the composition. There's a lesson here, beyond the "Fooling with Mother Nature" one...a parable about imposing one's will on something that manages to stand its ground.
Thanks for the revelations,
--- Luis
