proberok
No longer a newbie, moving up!
I sometimes miss threads when I'm scanning posts. I missed this one. Then I just happened to notice it had 48 replies, so I knew I needed to have a look!
I'm on the side of, I don't get the uproar about it?! Everyone that is so concerned about the passed-out drunk, why aren't you down there helping him out?! I'm sure in real life, he's an upstanding, fine man! The concern for his "esteem" seems a little bogus to me. But then, I grew up with drunks, alcoholics, idiots and just all-around scumbags. I never had the chance to simply just casually "observe" them from my ivory tower. So maybe I don't understand the feigned concern for him. It looks to me that the op saw him, snapped it, and that was that! It's an "okay" street shot. IMHO, of course.
yeah i didnt think it was such a great photo either, it was just something i saw and snapped a few. People on facebook love it tho. One person wrote "Okay. So the subject being what it is..this is a ****ing outstanding photographProbe. Wonderful composition, reminiscent of Diane Arbus or Mapplethorpe."