Robert Watcher
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Early Morning Streets Today Pics
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hello Robert!
Are you in Nica right now?
These pictures are all arresting and demand our continued interest and attention. But why?
I think that it's because each gives an immediate impression of a way of life, something that happens each day, but there's ambiguity, so we don't know really what might be going on. So in the first case, is he giving alms or perhaps paying for something? In the second, are those garlics for delivery to that house when it opens or perhaps a they're for sale, but then why the commercial packaging....and there's far too much garlic for even a bus load of vampires!
Lastly, the man with the table has an early morning set of "stuff" to sell or he's waiting to move it all somewhere else or for the door to open so he can deliver it as requested!
The truth is that for people at least, we make judgements based on outside appearances and people "like that" we've seen previously. Mostly we're wrong. But here, in the early morning it seems that we have perhaps a 75% chance to guess correctly the first time out!
Asher
Jerome Marot
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Robert Watcher
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I am still in Nicaragua for another 2 weeks. Come The first of November however, Anne and I are finding our Central American home in a city in the mountains of Guatemala. I am really looking forward to that change after 4 years in Nicaragua. There is rich and vibrant cultural tradition in that area that will provide new adventures with my photography. I look forward to sharing those images on OPF as I had done in the past with both Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
As for the pictures above - the only enlightenment I can give you is the first image of the man passing the beggar woman a few coins.
Other than that - I am moving through the streets from one area to another. I got up at 3:00AM and headed out into the city at 5:30AM as the light was increasing - then returned home with my last shot at 8:05AM. I brought home 570 images --- about 1/2 being usable for display.
On rare occassion do I stop and engage my subject in a conversation to see what they are doing. So I am no help to you in that regard. I simply look for subject matter and composition that visually stimulate me --- and I capture that. It is so amazing to me that with this culture, that dynamic composition can be found so easily.
People are always sitting in the right place and with the perfect body language. Walls, doors, windows and paint schemes provide endless perfectly placed elements for properly composing. That is all I see and those visuals are what intrigue me.
As for the pictures above - the only enlightenment I can give you is the first image of the man passing the beggar woman a few coins.
Other than that - I am moving through the streets from one area to another. I got up at 3:00AM and headed out into the city at 5:30AM as the light was increasing - then returned home with my last shot at 8:05AM. I brought home 570 images --- about 1/2 being usable for display.
On rare occassion do I stop and engage my subject in a conversation to see what they are doing. So I am no help to you in that regard. I simply look for subject matter and composition that visually stimulate me --- and I capture that. It is so amazing to me that with this culture, that dynamic composition can be found so easily.
People are always sitting in the right place and with the perfect body language. Walls, doors, windows and paint schemes provide endless perfectly placed elements for properly composing. That is all I see and those visuals are what intrigue me.
Robert Watcher
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Robert Watcher
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To Carry on with Jerome's Theme:
You can never have too much (all taken this morning):
TOILET PAPER
FRESH FISH
REFRESCO CHOICES
CORN FLOUR
You can never have too much (all taken this morning):
TOILET PAPER
FRESH FISH
REFRESCO CHOICES
CORN FLOUR
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
You've just vaulted into 3D reality. but let's temporarily go back to the flatter form.
These two are particularly special because of the simplicity and your finding ion bold sections of colors with focus of human interest. This is a separate and very special format you should segregate and perfect for a single series. These border on abstracting just two dimensions from a 3D world.
It's the people that make them 3D. (yes the ta le too, but we can ignore that as minor.
Asher
These two are particularly special because of the simplicity and your finding ion bold sections of colors with focus of human interest. This is a separate and very special format you should segregate and perfect for a single series. These border on abstracting just two dimensions from a 3D world.
It's the people that make them 3D. (yes the ta le too, but we can ignore that as minor.
Asher
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Robert,
Now here is your definitively 3D world we cannot help but to be embedded in.
FRESH FISH
REFRESCO CHOICES
This is remarkably different from the initial set of pictures which are much flatter.
Where as the former seem near abstraction, these are vibrant and full of life and do not have any lingering questions of what on earth is going on.
Fabulous and so busy and really alive!
Asher
Now here is your definitively 3D world we cannot help but to be embedded in.
FRESH FISH
REFRESCO CHOICES
This is remarkably different from the initial set of pictures which are much flatter.
Where as the former seem near abstraction, these are vibrant and full of life and do not have any lingering questions of what on earth is going on.
Fabulous and so busy and really alive!
Asher
Robert Watcher
Well-known member
HeHe. I accept your way of analyzing and categorizing the images Asher. No problem. To me they are all the same - simple photographs that i enjoyed creating and hopefully a few people enjoy viewing (for whatever their motivation might be). ???
Maggie Terlecki
Moderator
Love the guy sitting with several bags of garlic and yes, I agree, there can never be too much garlic! heh :-D
What impresses me is how hard people have to work to make ends meet. Nothing appears easy, but they always seem to not let it get them down, instead, they just get on with it. Thanks for sharing.
What impresses me is how hard people have to work to make ends meet. Nothing appears easy, but they always seem to not let it get them down, instead, they just get on with it. Thanks for sharing.