Going Global

Great social street shot: showing the distance of ... . BR Joerg

A shot with an excellent mesagge ... an excellent document. Great work. Regards.

Thanks you Joerg, Ricardo and Devon.

I was lucky with this and "I`m lovin it"

Kind Regards

Beal Dick

Nice shot, Bela...wonderful composition with the diagonal line and two world on two sides...one is seeking help and the other with a symbol of affluence (McDonald)...nice interpretation through selective coloring...my best

Thanks a lot Kallol.

Why the ballon in Color? You could also make your message in Black and White....this is a street photograph no manupilatations please...In the west supposedly Mac donalds etc make people poor becouse of U.S. global hegemony....Why? You do not show this....Yet good image....  

To Anonymous.

I thank you for your view and it gives me important input to my work.

To your question why I choose color on the balloon:

The colors are used as commercial by companies  - we are confronted with it most of our lives day by day in all media and on the street - here with a balloon. The true everyday life is a bit more grayscale. We do have poverty, we have abundance and that is what I try to express with the divide.

Kind regards

Bela Dick

Wonderful capture and your choice to use color on the balloon was an excellent one! Great job on this one! Thank you for sharing. :)

One of my favourite street photos for the contrast that you have displayed a). directly by displaying the corporate symbol and the lady begging and b). by use of the line that forms a division between the subjects. Also, there is a distinct tension in the photo through the invisible line that joins the cup and the balloon.

I'm not so concerned by the use of yellow here; I think that stresses the point a bit but the message would not have been lost even if you did not choose to do it this way. (I wouldn't have used colour, I think.)