"'Come On, It'll Put Hair On Your Chest!'"

The caption (title) says it all in this photo, taken in an Eastern country a

while ago. Your ratings, critiques and remarks are invited and most

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

observation, please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please

share your photographic knowledge to help improve my photography.

Thanks! Enjoy! John

A very nicely composed beautiful shot with an original title, John!

Thank you so much, Ruud.

I lost this one for a while.

Glad I found it.

john

John (Crosley)

Yes, his angle of watching exactly is right..! Congrats with the pleasure you got in the process of getting the title..! :) Yes, catching a good title nearly is as pleasant as catching the image..!

As you may have read, for a short while with Associated Press Photos, part of my job duties (until I moved up) was to caption photos - to make the caption interesting enough that a newspaper could publish the caption 'as is' and people around the world would look at the photo.

I didn't know how I would caption this one, and was stymied when I uploaded it, but it came to me in a flash as soon as I had uploaded it.  She's offering him something, she's dressed weirdly, she and the other guy are 'way out' and they're offering him something exciting.

I do get a great enjoyment out of taking an interesting photo -- especially an unusual one. Of course, this was a 'stakeout' with the idea that he would turn 'just so' and I could complete the photo, and of course, he did, as the subjects most often do.

Captioning them also is a very important thing -- a caption can resolve ambiguities in a photo or help it be understood when it's not quite clear (see my photo of the women offering 'love' and the two girls hugging in the background for a good example).

Yes, there's a great excitement in those special instances when I come up with just the correct  caption - and in retrospect none other would do.

Thanks for the comment, Olaf.

john

John (Crosley)