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Published: 2011-04-01 08:11:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 672; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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Description Saint Patrick's Day Parade, No Viewing zone.

Not an angle that would usually appeal to me... but it looked daft The camera picked up what I couldn't see, from where I was standing they were staring at a solid black background.
I moved to a different position to get a "Homage to HCB" shot, the woman and children spotted me, they posed! Not what I was after
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Comments: 38

zzzSoleyeszzz [2011-04-07 14:14:45 +0000 UTC]

Interesting shot

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Elizamac In reply to zzzSoleyeszzz [2011-04-08 10:30:03 +0000 UTC]

Only in Ireland

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KarenFiore [2011-04-05 18:27:21 +0000 UTC]

This is such a great shot...I thought that the man was urinating..and that possibly this was his wife and she was just waiting...slightly embarrassed...love an image that gets my imagination running.

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Elizamac In reply to KarenFiore [2011-04-06 09:22:25 +0000 UTC]

I wish the second shot had worked. They were an odd looking group, even from the front

Thanks Karen

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djailledie [2011-04-05 05:08:33 +0000 UTC]

The thrill of cheating?

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Elizamac In reply to djailledie [2011-04-05 10:02:54 +0000 UTC]

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myraincheck [2011-04-02 20:05:01 +0000 UTC]

the fact that they look really interested in...nothing...makes the image very funny They also look like kids in disgrace, put in the corner

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Elizamac In reply to myraincheck [2011-04-03 10:02:36 +0000 UTC]

You get some funny looks when you shoot people in the back, funnier still when the subjects are staring at nothing

Thanks Mary

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daliscar [2011-04-02 08:17:19 +0000 UTC]

This is probably just me but don't you think the looks like he is taking a leek

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Elizamac In reply to daliscar [2011-04-02 17:22:07 +0000 UTC]

I thought so too

Thanks Chris

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EricForFriends [2011-04-02 06:31:10 +0000 UTC]

A no viewing area at a parade... Perhaps an open-air dressing room or so? Sometimes things make more sense inside at the organisational meeting-table than in the cold ISO of day.

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Elizamac In reply to EricForFriends [2011-04-02 17:28:34 +0000 UTC]

I have no idea why it was a No View zone It's about halfway along the parade route so not a changing area. I thought perhaps they were protecting a forgettable statue of someone who was important once. He usually ends up covered in green beads, flags, and wearing a nice hat or two. But the barriers come down almost as soon as the parade is over and probably ended up covered in junk anyways.... like the angel fountain around the corned that usually ends up looking like a bubble bath The most logical conclusion, it left a clear access route to the nearest police station

Thanks Eric

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EricForFriends In reply to Elizamac [2011-04-02 20:22:55 +0000 UTC]

A lot of sculpture would improve with a bubble bad added to them.

Ireland will be Ireland... Leylines, ancient stonecircles and now Mysterious No View Zones!

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Elizamac In reply to EricForFriends [2011-04-03 09:26:23 +0000 UTC]

I wandered around a crap exhibition last week, an instillation that looked like the artist and gallery technicians had an argument before opening night, threw stuff on the floor and left Some bubble bath and a "NO VIEWING" sign would have made it worth looking at

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EricForFriends In reply to Elizamac [2011-04-05 05:36:06 +0000 UTC]

More art reviews should be like that.
I hope I haven't told before, but decades ago, a friend of Mrs ForFriends' drove everybody crazy by going around saying: "something terrible has happened and I can tell you what". (Try to be empathic with someone saying that.) So, a few years later we were in a Madrid museum in a room exclusively populated with enormous abstract canvases in interesting shades ranging from blackish brown to brownish black and Mrs FF looked at me with hollowed eyes saying: "Something terrible has happened, and I can't tell you want". We stuck to that one ever since when confronted with retard avantgarde.
Oh, and because you're probably dying to know: Mrs FF's friend had discovered her then boyfriend, a dentist, in bed with his assistant. That didn't stop the friend and her dentist from marrying and living happily ever after.
I still don't know how those paintings got into the Reina Sofia Museum though.

Brilliant plz emote Sometimes I suspect you have them made by order somewhere.

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Elizamac In reply to EricForFriends [2011-04-05 09:26:40 +0000 UTC]

I love that story! Everyone should have such a line to share with their partner

I actually checked an Irish artist's bio, to see if he had ever exhibited in the Reina Sofia Museum... you could be describing his paintings. I discovered large holes in his exhibition catalog, the six painting show I endured for a couple of months wasn't mentioned My husband foams at the mouth at the mention of this particular artist's work, and his deplorable use of "artspeak". His last painting exhibition he described as, "Two Years of Seeing". We laughed a lot The guy is almost unbearable when he has his artist hat on but I get on very well with him, and he did buy me lots of coffees from the good cafe down the street... while I sat with his shades of brown paintings, hoping the gallery would catch fire... again...

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m-lucia [2011-04-01 23:21:18 +0000 UTC]

funny...

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Elizamac In reply to m-lucia [2011-04-02 17:28:55 +0000 UTC]

Good!

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NIKON-AJ [2011-04-01 22:10:36 +0000 UTC]

Makes you wonder what they are looking at all the same.

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Elizamac In reply to NIKON-AJ [2011-04-01 22:17:21 +0000 UTC]

Something dark and fuzzy

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NIKON-AJ In reply to Elizamac [2011-04-02 05:09:57 +0000 UTC]

Could be many things

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lostknightkg [2011-04-01 20:58:56 +0000 UTC]

Awesome

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Elizamac In reply to lostknightkg [2011-04-01 21:06:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Kris!

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JACAC [2011-04-01 17:55:13 +0000 UTC]

w e l l . d o n e
t h e y . l o o k . r e a l l y . i n t e r e s t e d

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Elizamac In reply to JACAC [2011-04-01 20:47:21 +0000 UTC]

They were, but they really could have found a better spot to view

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JACAC In reply to Elizamac [2011-04-03 15:45:35 +0000 UTC]

f o r . s u r e .

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Debooo [2011-04-01 13:57:07 +0000 UTC]

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Elizamac In reply to Debooo [2011-04-01 14:03:18 +0000 UTC]

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Maclunar [2011-04-01 13:08:23 +0000 UTC]

tell me about it... posing people on the streets... i hate that! i sure want to shoot them though. with a GUN!


nice shot, btw.

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Elizamac In reply to Maclunar [2011-04-01 13:47:13 +0000 UTC]

I'm still pissed at a very nice couple who screwed up a good shot almost 2 years ago. I never showed it to anyone but I didn't delete it, I look at it sometimes, then swear and laugh

Thank you!

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JonnyGoodboy [2011-04-01 12:37:48 +0000 UTC]

Really like the old geezer in this one Liz

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Elizamac In reply to JonnyGoodboy [2011-04-01 13:53:41 +0000 UTC]

I tried to get a shot with his face in it, the woman messed it up

Thanks Jonathan!

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JonnyGoodboy In reply to Elizamac [2011-04-01 17:05:02 +0000 UTC]

That`s the fine line with street,it can be very hit `n miss and you can`t exactly go huntin someone for a second or third chance,you`ll get done for friggin harassment probably these days

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retro2k [2011-04-01 11:47:35 +0000 UTC]

Very hilaric, Liz

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Elizamac In reply to retro2k [2011-04-01 13:53:59 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Frank

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A-teinna [2011-04-01 09:26:36 +0000 UTC]

Was there anything of interest to see or just this solid black background? It's odd

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Elizamac In reply to A-teinna [2011-04-01 11:20:23 +0000 UTC]

The Patrick's Day parade was going past the black barrier in the background. Whatever about being able to see through one barrier, I don't know how they managed to see through both. I had a look after I took the picture, I could just make out a few blurry figures. Perhaps they were going for an impressionist view of the parade Funnier still was police moving people away from the barriers, the were serious about NO VEIWING.

Thanks

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A-teinna In reply to Elizamac [2011-04-03 18:33:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the reply and you'r ewelcome

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