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I just looked at the rest of your work and enjoyed all of your images. The question I have is where do you reside? NY? LA? Poland? I love the girl in IR. Magdalena? She is a wonderful subject. I hope you were able to really work with her. So innocent yet verging on adult. That wonderful in between age. I enjoy talking with photographers like you who exhibit an eye for line and form within your photographs. I am in So Calif and envy you the chance to photograph in NY. I have a couple friends who live there and will visit them soon. You have some very nice images. Keep shooting. One suggestion, work from different angles. Lower, higher, don't worry about "level". With your sense of space and form, I think you might benefit from the viewpoint. Have you ever thought of putting together say 10 or so images at 5x7 or 3even 8x10 on single weight paper and crafting a book? I think your images are worth it.

Eric, I have no idea but it feels good so keep shooting.

Looking at this picture, I had 2 feelings that caught me at once: extreme cold and incredible mess. Brrr!

Wild weather, terrific photo maria. The driving snow all over the place provides unity, and masses of atmosphere. The man leaving the frame is no problem IMO, in fact his hunched back as he retreats (hopefully to a warmer place) adds to the sense of urgency. The photo is crying out: get home! but what on earth is he pushing?

Knowing what he's pushing adds to the appreciation of the image. I think we're looking at what I would call a hamper - a heavy canvas 'bag' with an exterior frame. The size of the wheels are tiny. Even though the snow is not that deep yet, this guy is really struggling.

 

It took me a while to notice the second person in the doorway, again, assuming I'm reading that right. The snow makes everything indistinct and makes us look harder to read the image. I find that a bonus rather than an obstacle.

This is a beautiful photo Maria,

The silent chaos of the snow and the many fire escapes are what attracted me to it most. The figure(s) is/are important but are almost secondary for me, sort of Impressionist. I'm wondering what that white puffy thing is up at the top?

e.e. -- I uploaded a close up of the steam pipes sticking out of the walls on Cortlandt Street (sorry for the quality). As I said before, it is a place with a few manufacturing factories still survive in Manhattan. The steam is a part of the Cortlandt's charm. If you ever in NYC, you should check this place (Chinatown on Canal Street, one block East from Broadway) Carl, I think that a hamper is precisely what this man is pushing.

I like the energy of the obliques in the inline image . . . another good example of why the maxim of keeping veriticals and horizontals straight would ruin this shot by subdividing it.

Maria, if you do much printing at all you might think about getting a Leitz V-35 enlarger. They're really nice to work with.

beautifull classic photograph, tones are great, but I have a problem with a man down there. I can accept him leaving the place, and because of that seeing him from the back, but in that case I would like to be able to see him more, and understand better what's he doing; then again, I love to see peoples faces on pictures, and surely would love to se this mans face on a weather like that!

Looking at this picture I remembered what being a true photographer really means, since I'm so much at studio, portraiting fashion models...

 

Congratulations!

Branislav Jesic

photographer-

cinematographer

Nice shot, at first I thought it was just all that digital noise you

get with those new fangled Canon digital toys, but behold it was shot

with the mighty f-3, when things get rough give me a Nikon.

Ray, I am watching this baby on e-bay ---> Leica focomat 1c 35mm auto focusing enlarger. Are they similar and could I enlarge 35mm neg to make 16X20 print with any of them?

Very nice job. I am especially glad that no digital manipulation was used to spoil my enjoyment of this fine photograph. Lone live film-based photography ;-)

Thanks Maria,

I thought it was steam, a great addition to the whole atmosphere, it looks sort of like a cloud too. Maybe it's near pearl paint, I may have gone by there in the past.

An image which stands on its own. Even if this was the only photograph you had ever taken it would still be great, Maria.

The man struggling along with his burden against the driving snow : I find it absolutely poetic.

I haven't read all the response but I wonder how much more powerful this picture would be if the man was walking towards Maria close to the camera with his face showing...

 

congratulations Maria, you deserved it.

Travis, if I had him walking towards me I would have a much stronger shot. But having him closer to a camera would change not only the whole dynamics (the close up of his face would've taken more space in the frame at the expense of other elements vital to this composition) but I also would have problems with depth of scale -- something would have to go OOF since I did not have a whole lotta light there. I couldn't have his face oof so the buildings would have to go -- and the nice catwalks on them. And I wonder would have happen to the lines left by the falling snow.

Rereading my comment, I guess I should have said 'in the driving snow', not 'against'. Against the elements. I don't think the shot would have been better with him walking towards the photographer - different, possibly more ordinary...almost certainly more obvious and so less poetic.

I may as well contribute. It almost seems pointless with such a large line to stand in. I like this photo quite a lot. I love weather photos, especially really bad weather. I have had the good fortune to personally experience some of the worst weather the planet has to offer and it constantly amazes me how much power there is in nature. I've been in heavy snows in NYC and elsewhere much worse but this does bring back memories for me. I can almost feel the chill. Time for a hot cup.

Maria, the latest issue of B&W magazine has a photo by japanese

photographer Kiichi Asano that bears a striking resemblance to

your picture.

I appreciate the time people have taken to make a comment. I am happy that B&W film photography is not dead and actually quite capable of reasoning strongly within our community. Much of what I know today I owe to Ian MacEachern whose work I admire enormously. His help, encouragement and sheer enthusiasm for B&W never ceased to inspire me.

Here's his snow shot

Thank you, Ian.

What a wonderful depiction of a cold snowy NYC day. I think the image works very well as is--wouldn't change a thing!

Maria, Just happened to the web site for the first time. Your photo caught my eye. Just loved it, so much so that it excites me to want to shot B&W (am an old die-hard color photographer). And I like the back image of the person trying to leave this weather. I always loved watercolor painterly looking photographs. Now I know you can have sketch looking photographs, which I now love too.

 

GREAT JOB!

 

Sam

Just looked at the photo again, and it appears that the man is walking backwards, dragging the cart and holding it up. It appears he is wanting to face the wind and snow with his back, which is resonable. The tracks of the cart seem to verify his direction too.

fine photo. this can help us all in having a good sample to street photograpy, and to follow it.