What is the danger,is it the teddy bears picnic

anniedog: Lol - haven't you heard, bears are dangerous!
Ingrid

Two hidden dangers!

anniedog: Not sure which is the worst!
Ingrid

The man is sleepwalking into his future. The sign has been censored: they do not wish you to appreciate the nature of the perils around

anniedog: Strange indeed - I have no idea what the unspecified danger was, so it's a pretty useless sign!
Ingrid

Left: perceived danger

Right: fabricated danger


richard

anniedog: Or could be the other way round?
Ingrid

Well done Ingrid. A strong atmosphere in both images!

anniedog: Thanks Richard - glad you approve.
Ingrid

If all that glitters is not gold, Ingrid, I wonder if all that's danger is not perilous?

anniedog: Good point Ginnie. Just because it says it's dangerous, doesn't mean to say it is. I think they like to frighten us to control us!
Ingrid

Holding the invisible in his hand, he looks like a man who has glimpsed for the first time something of what St. Paul may have meant by "the things which are not seen".

A man suddenly made aware that there is more to life than what the senses can perceive or the camera record.

anniedog: Intriguing idea - I am sure there are many things of which our senses are unaware. I was not aware of all the nuances contained in these photographs until I started looking at them closely!
Ingrid

Blackdog's thoughts are very interesting (I have to google: "St. Paul")! I had chosen the title "Hidden"- yes, it is one of the most difficult challenges for us to de-tect and to dis-cover the hidden, the 'things' beyond the surface, the masks, and the dressing and to find out the real truth, the 'a-letheia', the un-hidden as the old Greeks so wisely said! Good photo-graphy may be de-tective and en- lightening (aufklärerisch)- but often photography is covering, hiding and falsifying, too- sorry, in my opinion language and literature (with a big L as the Dutchies like to say) are the best media/ways to make the unvisible visible and understandable.

Looking at your two pics I don't feel any 'danger'- the sign could be out of order, the 'danger' looks now domesticated- surely I would prefer to look at the man en face, but even then I could not be sure to view/know what he is just planning/thinking- in general I first believe in a good mind and sentiment- perhaps still too naive!

anniedog: An interesting idea - that language is a better tool than a visual medium like photography for uncovering the hidden or invisible. I'm not sure I totally agree, as it is also very easy to mislead and falsify with words. The danger sign is a strange one, for if the danger is no more, then why not just remove the sign completely. I find the blanked out words which leave us ignorant of the precise nature of the danger, more insidious than if we knew what to beware of!
Ingrid

wonderful!! I totally expect this guy to turn around and have an absolutely sinister face. nice work!

anniedog: Thanks - I just hope he never gets to see this, as he would probably be horrified!
Ingrid

he appears to be peering through a gap in the trees in a perhaps sinister fashion which links i to the danger sign of the other image, at least that is how this strikes me.

anniedog: Thanks Brian - that is one way of viewing it and a valid one, it seems to me.
Ingrid

This is poignant - like you have caught a stalker in the woods.

anniedog: Probably the first time I have seen the word poignant and stalker in the same sentence! I know what you mean though, as there is something rather poignant about the man's rear view and the defencelessness of his bare ears and little bald patch!
Ingrid

I like the idea of on picture very blury/pixellated/cropped and the other one sharp - like the pairs "Record" and "Spot". I somhow get the feeling that I'm closer than I should to whatever I see....hmmm this is very difficult to explain....at least in English

anniedog: Thanks Aksel - I too like the combination of sharp/blurry. Some of them are blurry because they are greatly enlarged, so that is probably why you feel too close! In reality, I would not have been able to get up so close.
Ingrid

Is this man dangerous? Or is he a likely victim? He's already being stalked by a madwoman with a camera!

anniedog: Just as well he didn't turn round and catch me at it - then he might really have turned dangerous!
Ingrid

Great work!!

anniedog: Thanks very much.
Ingrid