Happy And Sad, Cambodia 2006. Scan from Kodachrome.

Scan from Kodackrome.

nice

Great shot. I like very much the composition.

Regards,Teresa

 

I really like the overall composition, but I prefer your other crop (and b&w); the lady's hand seems out of place, did mean for this to be part of the image, or am I seeing it wrong?

I very much admire this photo, even moreso because you have trusted a medium in which there is no 'latitude' for more than very minimal manipulation -- Kodachrome -- and almost amazed you could still find it and get it processed.

 

It's still amazing film and deserves a special place of merit in the pantheon of the photographer -- will digital images ever get THIS GOOD just in image quality? If so, we'll all be the better for it.

 

Compositionally, this is wonderful; and the note about the hands -- I hadn't noticed -- people in the Orient assume such unusual positions so many times I took it for granted.

 

I am wondering if you had aimed the camera a very tad to the left, but there are no do-overs in life, with Kodachrome, or even with street photography, and in this case, no chance at all to bring out the third person, the child, background, left.

 

A very worthwhile photo, worthy of your finest.

 

Regards,

 

John (Crosley)

 

Thanks to all for taking the time to comment, I really apreciate it.

 

It's always a pleasure to see your name crop up, John, on my pages - it was you after all who introduced me to the site and I always listen to what you have to say, or I should say SHOW, with much reverence.

 

The slide looks SO much better than this poor quality scan from a Kodachrome transparency which incidentally has quite a good, albeit niche, following in Europe. I believe there are only three (maybe four) places that still develop it. I have to send mine to Switzerland in those nostalgic little yellow envelopes and then wait ten days for their return. You know, it makes you shoot differently than with digital having this in the back of your mind. I like shooting different mediums and with different cameras as I feel it keeps me on my toes, gives me a different user experience and allows me to explore subjects in different ways and frames of mind. There's no need for me to explain this to you of all people, John, because if you remember when I met you there were TWO cameras around your neck, one film and one digital. On another meeting you bought a little Rollei from that great little shop in Bangkok - have you used it at all?

 

I knew you would be interesting.

 

Very Best Regards,

 

Miles.