'Youth's Universal Moments: Boredom Listening to Mom on the Phone'

Remember as a kid, those interminable moments when mom chatted

on the phone and ignored you and whatever that you were doing? Now

there's the mobile (cell) phones so she can do it wherever she is not

where a phone is hard wired so her attention can disappear even if

you're shopping or in the Metro station even about to leave for the train

station (here) to a far-off destination.. Your ratings, critiques and

observations are invited and most welcome. Please submit a helpful

and constructive remark to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! john

This photo shows equally well or even better in color.  I prefer black and white, but I have worked up a very good edition in color and it's very nice -- show quality, with excellent whites and super colors.

Regardless of ratings, it's among my very best works.

ISO 2500.

24 mm. DX camera (D7000, Nikon).

john

John (Crosley)

Reading through your introductions often takes the words out of what one could say other than I AGREE!Here maybe,it could be something else:as kids,the interesting part of going somewhere far like in this case,is arriving and it could be that this young one is going over the WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET THERE pondering and not so much the fact that mom is on the cell,an image that is so common now (here anyways) that not having this time on the cell is almost abnormal.All this in a good as always B&W composed to get the principal subjects and just enough of the setting to back up the story.Excellent work!

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

I accept your generous compliment.  I regard this as among my very best (if more pedestrian) work.

While not enormously 'interesting' as I hope for most of my photos, nevertheless it tells a story and it encompasses close to a universal truth -- for many modern youths at least.

I also accept your alternate theory, although they are on the exit side of the Metro, leading to the train station, leading me to believe they were departing Kyiv, rather than 'just arriving', but who knows?

Thank you for a very well-written and very attentive critique.

john

John (Crosley)

Expressive scene! And  good BW version.

Thank you for the kind evaluation; it's what I try for almost always, though I often fall short.

Thanks again.

john

John (Crosley)

I understood from your introduction that they were leaving for somewhere relatively far away and my comment was that the young man was pondering on the arrival part of wherever they were heading.

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

Aha,  I hadn't understood that from your comment.

I should have read it more closely.

Thanks for the clarification - I always strive to get things right and if I get things wrong, hasten to make corrections and welcome them where justified.

john

John (Crosley)