What else do I need ..?

The market place in the old city. Thanks for vieing.

Thanks, please read preface

I love this quizzical twosome, but I think it's the balance of color: oranges, red pomegranates, blue shawl and satchel: that makes the shot for me.

Muslim women in Traditional Garb, Kodak Film, Jewish Prayer Shawl.

Pnina, very good composition,exposure,colours and caption. I like the play of light & shade.Surprised to note that they sell Kodak cameras with fruits on the street.

Perfect caption for this funny and beautiful scene, dear Pnina. The colors, light and DOF are great. Excellent capture! Warm regards

Coming back...The prayer shawl..Looking again, blind as I am, it is on a woman's sholder not hanging in a shop. So how can it be a talit? but it is

Great colors and light.

BR,

Mário

Jeff, thanks, it is exactly what attracted my attention ,the color palette , the market scene with the connection and differences of the 3 women.

 

Meir, it looks a bit like a talit, but is is just a scarf...Thanks for looking and commenting.

 

 

Amal, you can find funny melanges of what is being sold there. As there are a lot of tourists visiting, it can be handy and good business;-))

 

David, I can only thanks you again for your constant support and your recommending my work to others...

 

 

Mario, Thanks as well. I hope all is well with you

Yes my eyes are off about the tallit. However the title I see is: ? באמת

A wonderful slice of life in the Old City, Pnina. I also like the color palette, the composition of the women, the expressive finger of thought above the lady's mouth, and the bit of light on the top of the pomegranates, but what also intrigues me is the fruit itself, which raises a question of this situation "Ha-Matzav" with the many meanings of a pomegranate juxtaposed to these women, and, as Meir so perceptively pointed out, the similarity in markings of the headscarf to a tallit. Food for thought.

Meir, the title is my fantasy. How could I know what she really though ?...;-))

 

Donna, Thanks, I was as well attracted to this scene. Every thing in Jerusalem in every corner is a food for thought ,to those which follows what is going on. I really wanted to express the mundane reality of people's life when you subtract the political debates and wrestling and hide them behind..

 

( not easy though)....

Pomegranates -- the seeds inside -- be fruitful and multiply...

Pomegranates -- "rimon" in Hebrew. Same word for grenade.

Jerusalem is so political, these alleys are so insecure and fraught with political conflict

The similarity is well understood, Political situation is not easy in general , but many times riots are starting by both sides extremists.Being twice lately in the old city it was quiet , everyday life, no problems. (I like your point of view on Michael L, photos I don't participate for known reasons.....)

Nice street capture.

Of course you cannot know and neither can I..... '... באמת is my fantasy. But "What Else Do I Need" works. You see two shoppers. I see two women engaged in a harmless gossip. Isn't that what women do? :-) The fact that I could grow my own story from your photo suggests that it is a good photo. Yes?

Lovely. Fabulous candid moment with lush palette. Kodak should be so lucky as to have a photo this good of their own.

I'm edging back into pn and obviously have some catching up to do. It's going to take me awhile to comment on many of these pictures but I'll start with this one. As a long time street shooter, I appreciate the pleasure you get when that perfect moment is fully captured. The woman's thoughtful gesture, finger to mouth, furrowed brow as if she were trying to recall just where that special shop was located, seems to be universal and could be read and appreciated in any corner of the world.

A belated thanks to Apurva

 

 

Meir they were not talking to each other.....

 

 

Don, I'm not sure Kodak company will be happy with its products in a market place....? !

 

 

 

Jack, really glad to see you back again, you are such a special street photographer that I see it as a compliment.