What Price, Loyalty?

[Brian Moore]

Seal Beach, California. January 2011.

I was tempted for a moment to put this image in the "still life" category, such was the statue-like stillness of this little fellow as he awaited his master. I passed him ten minutes earlier and he was just as you see him in this image, taken ten minutes later.

There was not enough light for the Vivitar PN2011, but it's all I had with me. It was before I flipped the lens.

Memories 200 ASA film (Re-branded Fuji.)

 

[Pete Askew]

This is fabulous Brian. I have just bought a book of photography by Ernst Haas (Colour Corrections) and this reminds me a bit of those and the paintings of Edward Hopper. I love the painterly quality of the light and this is my favourite photo of yours to date. Composition, flow, light and colour just perfect.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Lovely stuff ... brilliantly observational as always!

 

[Brian Moore]

Wow, Pete. Thank you. (I was a little familiar with Hopper's work, but not the work of Haas. What a great photographer he was. I'm deeply honored to be mentioned in such company.)

Hamish,...thank you very much also.

 

[Paul Lange]

It strikes me that the scene would have been quite difficult to expose properly and the image is as good as it could have possibly been with what you had. In fact I think the grain really works well. I see what you mean about Hopper-ish likeness to the image.

 

[Brian Moore]

The serendipity of photography strikes me here. It's often so much about luck, isn't it? Thanks very much, Paul.

 

[Brian Moore]

Another broken link fixed.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

That's great!
(the image I mean, but also the fact that the link is fixed)

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Very Hopperesque indeed. Poor wee fella!

 

[Brian Moore]

That's great!
(the image I mean, but also the fact that the link is fixed)

Thanks Stevenson.

 

[Brian Moore]

Very Hopperesque indeed. Poor wee fella!

Thanks, Rob.

 

[Len Philpot]

Very Hopperesque indeed. Poor wee fella!

Yes, it evokes a sort of canine Nighthawks...

 

[Brian Moore]

Yes, it evokes a sort of canine Nighthawks...

Thanks a lot, Len. Much appreciated.