[Don Schaeffer]

[Toad]

I am trying to be more tolerant of other opinions no matter how extreme - but I have to say that I just don't get it. Great capture.

[Zig]

Jolly impressive pic.

[matthew]

I have to admit that I've been wondering what would happen if someone was to wear this shirt where I am. Possibly nothing -- we are polite, after all -- but probably the reaction would range from ostracisation to taunts and challenges to worse. And I'm sure others would applaud him.

I'm suspecting (knowing the photographer) that the streaks across the photo are from a window, but I still wonder if they're from the top of a barbed-wire fence. But maybe that's just my assumption that someone wearing this shirt 'in public' is probably in prison.

[wulinka]

Great capture, weird shirt and some interesting thoughts on it!
very intriguing,

Uli

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks guys. Bus photo through a window 55-200 mm Nikkor lens.

[soldier4Christ]

Def. nice capture and comp. ... very strong feelings are erupted from this image as well.. makes it a photo that speaks... no matter how obsurd the ideas!.

[Zig]

This shot I feel would not work with the subject facing the camera either: "turning his back"/excluding/hiding are(or can be seen as) symbolic as well as literal. Not the photographer's conscious attempt, maybe...but yet again, I reckon that a lot of "powerful" art was never contrived as such but just comes about via the capture of a decisive moment.
Interesting comment matthew! Let's imagine the photographer never told us the information about being shot from a bus....indeed, what if Don had porky-pied(lied) and told us he'd taken it at a local penitentiary among category A lifers..........would we allow this to colour(no pun intended) our response to it as a single photograph? Yes, is my own admission.

[Don Schaeffer]

If I had lied to say that it would be immoral and libelous.