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Excellent capture. I really like your BW treatment. Tones are awesome.

Gran imagen. Encuadre y edición perfectas.

This is not an ordinary photo. This is the combination of techniques of photography and the reflection of the feelings. Three different face and three different story. I think, everybody can create another story in his mind. Perfect

oh,great!

What a great photo. Very nice!!!

Most engaging. Somehow everything fell into place here--the dropped hand that leads one into the faces, the upraised hand that arrests, and the three expressions, inviting, uncertain, enigmatic--and that happens once in a great many frames. Well seen.

Excellent B&W! The mood is outstanding and so is the moment captured. 7/7a. Best regards.

Magnifica,gran expresion.7/7.

Beautiful B/W image, very nice expression. Excellent composition

Wonderful 7/7a Take care

This is really a great portrait...you've explore the emotion...the gesture is alive...and B&W is so excellent. 7/7 Bravo. Regards, Erwin.

wonderful documentary shot, congratulations

Expressive and great tone handling

Great image and beautiful B&W. Congrats!

Great atmosphere ... well done !!. Regards

7/7! Super!

Nice pic, perfect.

Felix, this is a wonderful black and white image. What sweet, shining faces.

Fabulous B/W with excellent tones, light & contrast. Perfect details & clarity. Their innocent & beautiful smiles so heartwarming.

Excellent!

Excelente imagen Felix. Las caras, los gestos, la composición, el tratamiento. Todo perfecto. Mi más sincera enhorabuena. Saludos

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I will jump in and make one of the first comments on this very attractive scene. I have often visited Felix's portfolio and have had the greatest difficult of coming to terms with his landscapes (too much saturation and too repetitive in my eyes) but then I fall on his portraits and you see some pure gems. This one chosen as POW and maybe especially his "Embarcadero" are beautiful scenes that haunt you after first having seen them. Something special is going on that make you stop and wonder what it is that makes them so different and attractive.
This scene is of course noticed because of the communication with the two boys to the right in the scene with eyes of questioning and amusement - the third boy has his attention on something beside the photographer, but completes the scene and plays a central role in the framing of the faces by the position of his forearms. I think what makes the scene special is in fact the framing of the faces by these two arms prolonged by left forearm of the boy to the right.
The B/W is very good in the areas of the faces but the very restricted depth of sharpness makes not only the background blurred , which of cause it strived for, but also important elements of the foreground are clearly out of focus. The whole window frame is slightly blurred and the second vertical wood frame to the left is completely out of focus (strange, because it seems to be almost at the same distance from the camera as the arm of the boy to the right!). Furthermore the sharpening of the wall areas under the window are clearly overdone as far as I can see.
These, as I see them, flaws of the photo do however not make me change my mind that overall it is a very beautiful scene that deserves the attention and honor of a POW. Congratulations to Felix.

A nice documentary photo but with fairly typical composition. The lighting is what sets it off for me, it really brings out the expressions on the kids' faces, the look of longing to be where they're not is captured well. You can clearly tell that if the camera were not there, they would not be smiling. Technically, the OoF post on the left seems bizarre and out of place, like it was forgotten in post or accidentally included in the background blur.
PhotoShop manipulation should be transparent to the viewer. In this case it is blatantly obvious from over-sharpening of some elements and apparent random blurring of others. A very nice but prototypical capture that is flawed by technical issues.

Felix has some other very powerful portraits in his gallery, I highly recommend your perusal.