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  Anonymous

  Is this some kind of "Slapstick Photography"? Quite funny, pointed moment and a nice outcome!

  • over 3 years ago
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  rob kaptein

  thanks M. I have to look for words now. What I find out, is often it's so unreal, how life unfolds itself. 'Slapstick' seems nice word for this..! It's like as iff you're a spectator to anyone playing it's role, identified with the Self. Absorbed in oneself. That's funny and tragic too at the same time. You see all this happening. It has a certain amount of touchiness that comes across as a slapstick and is alienating. Landscapes can be also witnessed that way; but they are Being always. An impartial decor that carries, nourishes life. Certainly if it contains human activities and constructions, they happen, it's funny how alienating this can feel, to witness this in that way... Feeling sympathy and understanding, but also clumsiness and pettiness of it, the weightiness at the same time of how seriously everyone takes themselves. Animals are not bothered by that: they are not so attached to themselves. But it's not a funny way of taking pictures, in the way that you oppose the humans, not judging or rejecting, but just 'simply' noticing how it is. Then freedom arises and lightness appears.. I kinda like this image, and it bonds with you because you recognize it.. but that we already encountered.. Nice you respond the way you do..

  • over 3 years ago
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  Anonymous

  I like this image too; it is the umbrella and the gesture of the man with the golf club, which reminded me of the situation comedy of a clown ..... and Rob, you've just written another great laudatory speech!

  • over 3 years ago
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  rob kaptein

  yes M. you invited me to speek me to speak out about the motivation that drives me to make these shots exactly like that.. Glad it seems to have worked. Important for myself and spectators to articulate my vision..

  • over 3 years ago

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