The Gallery (Color Ed.)

The Gallery (Color Ed.): Three Pairs: Three panels show three 'pairs',

in this photo from the opening of a Los Angeles art gallery not long ago.

(If there is any question about the 'third pair' please address it in

comments). Previously shown cropped by one-third in the B&W folder,

this is quite a different capture. Your ratings, critiques and observations

are invited and most welcome. Please submit a helpful and constructive

observation or submit an observation to help improve my photography.

Thanks! Enjoy! John

Wonderful capture. Interestingly, the light gray "frame" photo.net adds works very well here. I suppose the third pair could be called the woman and her conversation partner, but I see it more as woman and cell phone, which to my mind fits better with the theme presented by the other two pairs.

Whichever way you see it; woman with mobile (cell) phone or woman with (child, friend, 'close personal friend/relative, etc.) this is a photo about 'pairs'.

 

Some people are so closely attached to their mobile (cell) phones that they indeed should be seen as 'pairings' . . . because you almost never see one without the other, closely joined at the ear -- almost like an appendage. Want to trade your appendix for a mobile phone (cell)?

 

At least the phone is not seen as a 'vestigial remnant', but then again the more doctors/scientists/medical researchers are looking at the body. the more they find that seemingly 'useless' organs do indeed perform important tasks (ovaries are not just something to 'throw away in a hysterectomy - they perform important work in the female body, for instance, and tonsils, once regarded as expendable, are really super lymph glands, while foreskins . . . well don't get me started.)

 

This photo, somehow, fit well into my theme of threes, which I 'ran into' early in my career, as a pleasing element in photography. Notice how her split legs also reinforce the element of 'twos' in this photo -- one which is a combined composition of three and twos.

 

You said a lot in a few words; congratulations (and seasons greetings, from me, now recovering from my long journey and now once with vital medicine, of which I was deprived due to one man's carelessness which has cost me thousands to retrieve just to fix his error. (not obtainable where I have been).

 

(So now I have a virus, a result of traveling 6,000 to 8,000 in winter cold seated on a plane -- unwillingly too) --next to a person with a virus, and am spending Christmas confined to bed in a strange hotel room, with no one -- visitors, friends or company -- even the hotel restaurant is closed.)

 

My assistant Nina almost died, before I got her into a hospital with Western doctors and sat at her bedside during long night, until the doctors figured out what was wrong with her, then slowly and deliberately 'cured' her (no virus like Ukrainian docs told her - medical care in Ukraine is 'free' but sometimes you get what you pay for; private care isn't, but it can be worth it. ;~))

 

Such is life.

 

Hope your Christmas is better than my last week or so.

 

Maybe New Year's will be better (if I can get back abroad, being infected now, and not a desirable seat partner).

 

John (Crosley)

Very original subject and I like it very much.

The colours and treatment are very nice.

Wishing you Happy Holidays!

Thank you so much . . . . like so many of the photos I take, this was completely 'ad hoc' and I happened to be late at night, in shadows, in a place I might not normally be, but there i was so . . . this is the result.

 

A very happy result . . . . in my view (and yours too, I understand . . . and for which I am happy to learn).

 

Thank you again.

 

Happy holidays to you also.

 

John (Crosley)

I hope your Holidays were merry and I wish you a very Happy New Year!

My assistant Nina came extremely close to dying, but I saved her life by getting her to a private hospital, then had to leave for America to fill an important personal prescription my pharmacist forgot to send me in time and could not be filled anywhere else at a cost to me of thousands, and there spent Christmas in bed with a virus caught from an airplane passenger -- all at a cost of otherwise unnecessary thousands and major disruption to my life, even causing me to leave Nina's bedside at the hospital before she was recovered.

 

My assistant, Nina, now is well and happy, and will live (see her photo elsewhere and understand that this is a big thing for me and her family). Public Ukraine doctors missed he diagnosis until I got her to special, private doctors who puzzled it out, or she probably would not have made it; Ukrainians do not have money for private doctors, but I made sure I did for her.

 

Christmas, sick in a Los Angeles hotel room, was not my idea of 'happy holidays' ,but I have just arrived in Ukraine to a foot and a half of new fallen snow and not cold temps -- just about freezing and people thanking me for my good deed. Smiles and warm looks all around are my reward. I guess I got some karma, even though I don't really believe in it.

 

Life goes on.

 

Even on the airplane over here I got one of my lifetime best shots, I think. And I flew and met Madeleine Albright on the way over to the USA (very short, diminutive woman, surprisingly so).

 

And, one day, just before I left, I FOUND JESUS!!!!!

 

Got photos to prove it.

 

There's a new standard of proof for all those people now who proclaim 'I found Jesus', as I now have a photo of me shaking his hand, just after his 'last supper'.

 

Yes, my life is unusual.

 

I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

How else can you get the photos I get just by carrying a camera (photoapparat) around, during daily rounds?

 

Hope you have a better New Year's than I had a Christmas.

 

For that matter, me too!

 

Thanks for the good wishes.

 

John (Crosley)