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This is how it looked recently at a jitney bus (marshrutka) stop in

Dnipropetrovs'k, Ukraine, with a touch of symmetry added by the

standees and the advertising sign. Your ratings, critiques and

comments are invited and most welcome. If you rate or evaluate

harshly or very critically, please submit a helpful and constructive

comment; thank you in advance for sharing your photographic

knowledge to help improve my photography. Enjoy! John

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John, this reminds me of another of your photos; the coloured one where the characters were bound together by an inverted 'V'.

Here, the mutually balancing stances of the man and the lady is balanced by the poster where there are two characters on both sides of the woman and then the woman in the centre has her arms (almost) spread out.

One of those moments in time when everything falls in place. All it needs is an eye to take a photo.

Regards.

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And so I went to Dnipropetrovs'k for a night or so, just to take photos.

Upon arising, this is what I saw, first thing and the first photo I took.

It's a sneaky little photo.

It's not something that will hit you over the head with its greatness; it's subtle, as you have noted.

Both in black, both equidistant from the sign, one facing more toward the camera, one completely away, man and woman, and a sign to separate them (with men and women).

It's far more complex than viewers might ever give credit for, and one of those things I 'see'.

But the ability to 'see' is an 'art' that is the product of long cultivation, as you no doubt experience.

Just one in hundreds that turns out to be good to great is a very good return in 'street'.  I went out that day and got maybe 20 that meet my specifications for good enough to post; and I couldn't do that even a year ago.

At some point, it all builds on itself and returns become logarythmic.

Cartier-Bresson, on being shown a photo of his family and hearing it praised, said:  'Oh, that, I just considered it a snapshot'.

The old guy didn't even know how, at that point in his life how NOT to take a good photo - they weren't all good, but all had something in them that others could strive for (that's why I gave up initially when I first saw his life's work.).

But I'm getting it now, at a time in my life when he was retiring plus my color work is leaps and bounds better than his!

He tried to destroy his color work; he knew he didn't have an eye for color and didn't want anybody to see it and hated anyone who brought up the subject of his 'color work'.

I saw some recently in a Calumet book in You-Tube, and it was decidedly inferior, but who cares - the old guy was so great at what he did.

Best to you Samrat, and I am working on your e-mail request. (was very, very sick all day).

john

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You are right about the posted photo with actor Seth Rogen making a 'V' upright with his finger and the furry cape of the seated woman's jacket making a white inverted 'V'.

For a long time, I puzzled why I had felt it necessary to take that photo, until the inverted similarity finally dawned on my consciousness; my subsconsciuos is very active on the street, and through these critiques I make an effort to verbalize both after the fact, and so the next time I can also do so before the fact, thus being able to 'create' such photos with a little less intuition, as it cuts down the 'hit and miss' nature of such captures.

As always, your comments are VERY helpful.

john

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I think your taste is impeccable.  You comment on my photos seldom, but never have failed to find a good one, even one as subtle as this.

john

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