Brilliant street photo from Manchester on new year's eve

That it does, that it does.

I do love when people jump on the Bandwagon of editing said Photos into hilarious situations, also. My personal favourite is the Blue-Suited Man Photoshopped into the Seurat Painting.
 
...and this is the photographer.
Joel specialises in after pub/club shots and has paid the price more than once.

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You can rely on "The Grauniad":

The photo credit is-
"Joel Goodman’s stunning image of New Year’s Eve on Wells Street in Manchster,"

It's Well street and it used to be "The Manchester Guardian" seems they have forgotten that!!
 
Oh, yeah ... a very colorful digital capture.
Lot's of stuff going on but beyond a short live new flash I can't see anything that will endure more than a couple of days.
Going "viral" is pure click count, a masterpiece is something different🙄
 
As an aside, one of my favourite photographers, Tom Hunter, alludes to classical painting in his images.

This is his most famous work. It's a "straight" photograph on large-format film and was made before digital cameras and manipulation were widespread - it was staged though, albeit an actual situation and place: the people in the house really were being evicted, and she is holding the eviction order.

Woman Reading a Possession Order, 1997. After Vermeer

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All I can say is that we yanks can't compare to the brits at party time.

Have yet to see an American horizontal on the sidewalk while still keeping his drink vertical - hats off!

Randy
 
""To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression." -Henri Cartier-Bresson


Great shot! Great publicity for 'good' street photography.
 
Here's a take on why it ended up viral. It's an OK image. In terms of what's going on, it does indeed have a lot. It unfortunately has enough other stuff, cars, extraneous colors etc that don't make it live up to its hype.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-35214873

It is indeed just more of the same. Pick a mid-size British city and go to its watering hole on a busy night and you'll see similar scenes.

I did for a year so that I could help pay for my studies with evening work, but it takes many tolls.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/swansea-is-a-paradise-929
 
he he he I am just being honest here.
If you want me to, I could say "WOW! I am amazed. This is AWESOME. "

Brutus a.k.a. Raid
 
raid said:
I am not very impressed. A masterpiece? I don't think so.
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I don't think anyone is claiming that it is a masterpiece in it's own right, more that they are reminded of actual masterpieces (from classical painting)in the way that the components of the photo come together.

It's comparable to the photo from the fight in the Ukranian parliament which received a similar response.

http://www.goldennumber.net/renaissance-art-composition-ukranian-parliament-fight/#jp-carousel-6764

I think it's impressive how people have responded to the photo, which I personally would have been quite happy to have taken.
 
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