'Put Your Things in the Tubs for X-Ray Please'

This airport worker is caught at a moment of rest between busy

moments at Los Angeles Int. Airport, resting on tubs that hold

possessions for security x-ray screenings. Notice is vacant, maybe

exhausted look. Your ratings and critiques are invited and most

welcome. If you rate harshly, very critically, or wish to make a remark,

please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

superior knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy!

John

He was free while you were busy clicking him! Nice capture of a nice moment.I think he was curiously looking when the next set of passengers will come!

Congrats.

Susmit

This photo has two strong points, in my view . . . . as a photo editor (which is what I am when I choose one from numerous captures to post here).

Symmetry (and some asymmetry), the broken symmetry of the subject, making him 'stand out' and be 'framed'. by the (somewhat uneven piles of) tubs (which indicate his occupation, together with his security badge).

And finally his expression; an expression you seldom will see on anyone.

Think carefully, when did you see an expression like that on an otherwise 'blank face'?

I thought so.

His expression alone makes this portrait's look 'original' in my view.

In MY view . . . at least.

Thanks Susmit for your comment.

john

John (Crosley)

This fellow's expression is a large part of why I chose him as a subject.

In one sense, his features are similar to one or more cartoonists. Think for instance of Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury, and how his characters seem to have droopy eyelids.

This fellow has such droopy eyelids.

His mouth turns downward, just the opposite of a guy with a totally dissimilar look -- Erwin "Magic" Johnson.

Mr. Johnson is blessed not only with outstanding basketball skills, but through some quirk of physiognomy, he appears always to be smiling. I am sure that it has unnerved a large number of opponents, seeing him driving a ball and 'smiling'. 'How can he smile, coming at me like that?' they must have asked, 'he must have known he was going to get around me?' In fact, he probably cannot do otherwise.

This fellow probably has his mouth's 'look' mistaken for a frown, when in fact it probably is just like the opposite of "Magic' Johnson's smile. Perpetually, I am sure, it's seen as frowning.

With 'droooping eyelids' and a perpetual frown, he'd be a charicaturist's deligth.

And for just a pass-by by this photographer, just a simple photo took on 'character' because of his unusual physiogonomy.

(and he was patient and understanding, for which I thank him).

John (Crosley)

One of the best, most pithy comments, Meir.

In addition to cartoonist Larson, there was a Playboy cartoonist who drew droopy-eyed figures for that Magazine some time ago (I do not look at it presently). Of course, such a Playboy figure would have just finished having relations, accounting for the drooping eyes . . . .

Thanks for your contribution.

john

John (Crosley)