sifting soil

this is the nursery where new tea bushes are carefully nurtured before they are ready for transplantation in the fields

two close-ups follow (note: both are taken with the 20mm pancake lens)

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Cool!

May be you are into why I do not come to add a comment on your images, I am so sorry for that.

My friend one essential element with photography is light and you are posting a lot of images but never tried to find out a way to control light to properly serve your image.

Please look at all of the images posted here and pay attention to the faces of these people, they are all un evenly lit and luck details and definitions, the surroundings are also very confusing and disturbing which do not have an appealing impact to the image lay out and de grading the value of the composition.

It is necessary for us to look into the means of improving our images and rise up or skill skills by learning from other before we start jumping into conclusions.

I hope this is of of help to you my friend and wishing you all of the best.

No apologies are necessary for not commenting on mine or any one else's photographs. Why and when we comment is a function of many ponderables.

I respect your right to an opinion, even though it may differ from mine. In fact that is why I am on PN - to get the opinions of others who tell me things about my work in what they write and even sometimes in what they leave unsaid.

I totally concur with you that light is an essential element of photography. Your following statement "you are posting a lot of images but never tried to find out a way to control light to properly serve your image" is too sweeping a statement to be meaningful.

In the first image their faces are averted from the camera and are not to be seen. The composition is structured to show the hard back-breaking nature of the work being done by these women in harsh sunlight against the backdrop of a tea garden nursery. The nature of the work is documentary and is not to be viewed as a work of art. This photograph has been posted for critique to that category. Ratings are sought only on the first main photograph (most will not even see the other two).

The other two photographs are just closer look-ins at the working women. Their faces have been dodged to shed additional light on them keeping in mind the fact that their dark-skinned faces are averted from the sun. I did not feel the need to illuminate them more.

As for their surroundings... "confusing and disturbing which do not have an appealing impact to the image lay out and de grading the value of the composition." Your point of view, and you are certainly entitled to it.

Your next statement totally foxes me: "It is necessary for us to look into the means of improving our images and rise up or skill skills by learning from other before we start jumping into conclusions." I am totally at sea - what "conclusions"!

My best wishes to you too, Rashed.

Excellent piece. Great showed atmosphere of heavy labor