Friendly Hand

For some reason, I just respond with so much happiness to this photo...love to see it!

So much better than the current "photo of the week," but, then again, that requires breaking with the conventional frame of mind on photo.net, in which the "oooh, aaahhh" slick colour photograph is to be preferred over the quiet, charming and poetic photograph that needs not scream "look at me!"

Photo of the week... what does it mean ?

 

I do not even comment or rate on those when they are already photo of the week. To me they mean that the photo in question has been its been rated 8 or 12 times with high notations and got into an automated system.

 

Its the automated system that doesnt mean anything to me.

 

Respect to thoses whose works deserve to be diplayed in the photo.net homepage and get there. It surely must be flattering to have one's work seen by hundred thousands of others, and I dont even know if the photographers in question asked for it....

 

Well thats photo.net... the dark side of its force is be seen, be seen, be seen :)

 

MUCH LOVE to thoses whoses works, hidden beneath the layers of linux and html code of the photo.net capharnaum deserve more attention.

 

To me they are the gems I go about searching for from time to time.

 

Regards,

Charming. Love this photograph.

Hi Nabil, As Barbara said the comforting gesture is cute, but then again there is the sobering thought that this monkey is held in captivity. I don't mean that in an animal rights activist kind of way. But photographically it adds a deeper layer to the story of this photo, tension between the seemingly equal partnership and behaviour, and the different actual situation in which the monkey is very much dependent on its master. I only wish there was a tad more shoulder or neck, so it's a bit more obvious (s)he's patting a shoulder. Then again it's part of a man-animal interaction sequence. And now we can think up a story of our own. Well, I'm not sure. It's a good photo nonetheless! Regards,

Listen, sometimes the monkey is not who you think it is :)