rdgreenwood Loc: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

I just returned from Italy, where the street options were plentiful. We spent our time in Florence, and the Duomo provided the setting for this shot. I'm a believer in the idea that a photo should tell a story; can you follow the story here?

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AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

Breaking News: Alien couple aims ray gun while spectator calls Homeland Security. Great shot-hope you had a great time!

rdgreenwood Loc: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Hmmm... I thought they looked suspicious.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

How can a single photograph possibly tell a story? A story is what happened, how things changed, what is going on... None of that is in a photograph. There is no narrative, there can be no story!

All a photograph can do is show what was there at the moment the shutter was fired. Any story is not from the photograph but from the imagination or memory of the viewer. Hence a photograph does not tell a story, but it might inspire a story. The problem is that it won't be the same story for each viewer

Photographs invoke emotions in the minds of viewers, and one measure of how good a photograph is at communicating with viewers is how many of them feel the same emotion. Whatever stories that emotion happens to inspire are incidental.

rdgreenwood Loc: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Wow! I couldn't disagree more, but you have a right to your opinion.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Look up the definition of "story"! This actually isn't a matter of opinion, it has to do with realizing what the facts are.

Also, research Garry Winogrand of Street Photography fame and John Szarkowski who was the Director of Photography for three decades at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. They are the people that pointed out the lack of a relationship of a photograph to a story.

rlaugh Loc: Michigan & Florida

Looks like a local,unimpressed with his surroundings, going about his daily business...and a vacationing couple, excited by those new surroundings, and wanting to document them for their friends and family back home!!...fine shot!!

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

What Bob said. Nice street work--I like it.