caress...

any comment and critique welcome

Great choice of colour! the photo feels off-centre with the guy on the left cut off and some space to the right, but it has that nice documentary unaltered reality feel to it.

Please tell me what they're doing...

If the right guy won't get cut off, and there would be more details in dark area, this would be a very good picture.

 

Anyway, I like it very much. Nice work.

Singeing the bristles of a porker before it gets turned into hams and sausages, I think... Still, it is an interesting shot of rural activities - more so because it isn't something I'd get to see here in the UK in this day and age, but I do remember some old farmer friends of mine talk about doing this when they kept pigs. I like the monochrome presentation of the image and the motion blur in the two figures conveys the feeling of work going on, but I'm not so sure about the focusing. It seems the camera has latched onto the background as the foreground is a bit soft, which is a shame, as the overall idea of the image is good. Still, I'd much rather see less-than-perfect interesting photojournalism shots than perfect boring ones and I find this image interesting.

imo you should be shooting as much of the everyday life as you can. these scenes draw me back to your folders. Regards,

very good