...Life Go's on....

Paula, thanks for your feedback!

 

Michal, thank you very much for your contribution to that image that has an important meaning to what I want to express.

 

I appreciate your suggestion again, but let me explain why I did it the way I did and I want it to stay like that.

 

The container is a distruction and don't belong to the image, but was there.to eliminate its presence I could clone it out or assimilat it so it will not be accentuated in the composition,I think that in my doing so, it lost its container look and is part of other forms in the composition. your sharpening especially this tomb, changed the old soft patina of the tomb, which I think does not add to the overall look of the group of stones.

 

I don't know if it is a "masterpeice" Michal, but it is for sure expresses my feelings in that time, that life must go on ! even among the ruins and tombstones.

 

Thanks again, Michal, it is very nice to meet you here.

Like the caption, perfect one.

 

Regards...

Pnina, you have become a story teller with pictures. That's why so much great disucssion about your pictures. This one is no exception.

I have rotated this photo and adjusted perspective a little. These tombstones are layered and piled up in a disorderly fashion for long here. I have corrected vertical lines of building to emphasize contrast between building and tombstones. I think it's a little bit better way to present relationship between the living and the dead. Hope you don't mind.

What a powerful image, Pnina. Old vs Young, stone vs life, you captured many different contrasts here.

Pulok ,for your comment

 

Howard, usually you are the story teller ;-))

 

Hiroya, thanks for taking the time, No I don't mind, but I like the somewhat slant perspective ,the house a bit to the Lhs while most of the thombs to the right, encircling the girl. anyway thanks for expressing your point of view always ready to consider .

 

Lionel, thanks for your kind words.

 

Pnina

it's all been said before. excellent shot.

You're right Pnina, colour version is better.

Great find, efficient composition, incredible texture and powerful meaning. I agree with Michal about the container. Deep shot Pnina!

Klaus, Kah and Paul, thanks to all of you.

 

Paul, the contasiner is no longer a factor in the composition.

 

Pnina

Very good, and yes you are a story teller!

Sarah and Wilson, Thanks.

 

Sarah, Yes I was "accused" not once of being a story teller... I join Howard Dion...

 

Wilson, I'm glad to see you, thinking of your depiction of the maze , Yes you are right , we are now in a maze of life around tombstones, but I hope things have changed from than. Thanks for your concern.

A stunning and eerie juxtaposition. Excellent control on exposure to create the intended effect. Very well composed my friend. Regards, Kelvin.

It is the cycle of life; not even the most desolate winter lasts forever. A very telling picture, Pnina.

Kelvin and Jack, beeing in the situation my country is in, with so many new graves and so much sorrow, that image is my expression , saying that human life have the highest value, and my hopes for better days to come.

A beautiful and elegaic shot that says so much about life and death. I like how the headstones are crowded together and the girl is part of the scene. Did you use the 70-200 here?

 

Old cemeteries always seem to get higher and higher as more people are buried. Some in London are several feet higher than the surrounding land.

Colin, I used a wide angle here 22mm. but the 70-200 is so good ! I use it a lot!Thanks, you are a good advicer, and I have decided to keep and not to sell the 10-22mm.

Pnina, this is one of your best photos. Very touching, moving, thought-provoking and hopeful at the same time.

Michals suggestion was excellent.

Carsten. Thanks for your comment, I think the same of your image I have commented on today. Very touching.

 

Yes, Michal is a nice skilled young man, and I think that mutual fertilisation is the best way to develop. Pnina

Carsten, Pnina, thank you for your compliments 8^D .

Michal, I see that your eyes are everywhere...;-)) Pnina

beautiful shot, I wish I was there too, taking photos :)

Pnina, this photo conveys a lot of unfortunate sad facts... A good discussion here too, as always. Initially I was wondering about a sepia also but I see your point about losing all the different layers of colors in it. Yes, color is a definitely better choice imho. I liked Michal's suggestion too. Thinking about the mood of the photo, I worked on it a bit, hope you don't mind. Just another rendition that's all.

 

Chitra

Hi Chitra, nice to see you here, and thanks for taking the time, Of course I don't mind reading and looking at other points of view. My aim was to convey the fading colors of tombs that comes from the long time of existence, and the new life conveys by the girl .

Great shot. Great title.

 

I think it's the caption for the photo that really makes one think about what the past means, and yes, life goes on, which is the most important thing.

 

I would not use sepia as this girl is here and alive now and facing the future. Sepia implies the past and history.