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Olga.L
This has such a great visual pull on our eyes, from the leading lines to that magic number our brains love, we see 3 figures, clearly. I love the tonal quality to this post crisp it tingles. This is embraceable photography, an image that one studies and feels embraced by it! Ten thumbs up.
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Wayne-Cheah replied to
Olga.L :
Thank you very much for the encouraging comments.
As for the 3 figures, it was most fortuitous that the larger figure was in the middle, providing a good visual balance to the magic number as well. And the lady holding the hand bag swung it just so that it was "stopped" by the camera just at the right place to occupy the right bottom area which otherwise would be too "empty" and off balance the whole image.
When I post-processed this image, I was wondering wouldn't it be wonderful If I had their email addresses and sent this image to them?
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Marleen
This raises questions and is very interesting. Where are they going? Who are they? What's in that handbag? Definitely passed
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Wayne-Cheah replied to
Marleen :
Yes, I quess we'll never know. This is the ultimate beauty of photography. It captures a fleeting moment of time and place of people, a mere fraction of a second, and "immotalizes" it perhaps for the next few centuries, (at least so long as the Internet is alive), like the early photos of the last century where everyone of the people in them are all dead, some without even knowing they were in any photos.
In my photo, the person on the left was gesturing with his right hand, as if making a point. What was it? What were they talking about, obviously of some interest to them, and they did not even know that that moment was captured and now displayed as an image for a photo competition. Would it not be a great twist of fate if one of them were to see this image now?
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Wayne-Cheah replied to self:
On the technical side of this image, I had to time it perfectly because if the moving figures were too forward the bright sunlight would completely "blow-out" the figures which would then lose their sharp outlines. Too early and the figures would not be nice neat silhouettes.
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photonut
Well done for this one,a visual treat and the overall blackness gives the area lite that much more BITE,well taken photo.
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Christmas Angel 🎄 created by Merlin
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sufi reflection created by Velya
Preparation before the Mevlevi Sema Ceremony. The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony is a Sufi ceremony that symbolizes stages on the path to accessing God and contains religious elements and themes with detailed rules and characteristics. The Mevlevi Sema Ceremonies that describe divine love in artistic terms with choreography and complex musical structure are performed at least twice a week throughout the summer, particularly in Konya. Konya (also known as the Mevlana’s City), one of the most valuable cities to be seen in Turkey.
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