I have to agree. We are trained instinctively to notice differences in humans and animals. So, we can remember those easier. Have you ever seen someone and felt you knew them from somewhere else? That's because we recognize something in them. We go through our daily routines often not even looking at what is around us. So, I think we just filter out the details unless it has some real unique quality like the light or color. Morning and evening tend to catch our attention more than midday and night. This can be seen by the photos we post. Yes, it's an interesting article.
@viranod@scatcat Many of Ansel Adam's picture contain objects-to-scale , his Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 ( http://www.hcc.commnet.edu/artmuseum/anseladams/details/moonrise.html) comes to mind (quoted site has a different version and commentary of Adams taking the photo - ref: I think the PBS video). Much of his talent was in the dark room, not to take anything away from the photographing side.
I think the original post by @byrdlip was only to ask which pics people remember easily (type of memorable), not the kind of great memorable piece of art!
Photo's that tend to stir up an emotion in me I remember. The emotion could be of several different types.One bad emotion and photo that still haunts me was in a Sunday morning newspaper. It was in the (Nam) era. A photo of a man getting shot pointblank in the head. Gun, smoke from it ind the expression of the mans face right at impact. I could and never will understand why that photo was published on the front page of a Sunday morning paper. I know it is called (journalism) , but I think there should be a limit and more discretion used in some cases.
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