'Love'

After a long day's exhausting work, a relaxing trip to a narrow bar for a

drink, a beer or other libation seems to give them energy to intertwine, hug

and kiss. Your ratings, critiques, and observations are invited and most

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

please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy!

john

'Life' from the sign in the window is the name of a mobile phone company (cell phone company) which provides a proprietary network and sells PIN codes on recharge cards to store user cell value for use of their telephone SIM cards as for this company and most others in Ukraine there is no monthly billing.  When one wants 'units' for use, one goes to a vendor on the street or an electronic credit-card driven or cash-driven box, inserts one's payment, receives a special code, enters it into the phone, broadcasts it with special phone symbols and the phone is then recharged throughout the company's network.

It makes a helpful analog to have the red 'LIFE" sign in the window with the woman making 'LOVE" in the doorway while wearing a red shirt of course, all visualized and planned of course.  

If it weren't for the two red things and their importance as presented, this would have been presented as a B&W photo -- the double reds and the message 'Life and Love' made color posting almost mandatory.

john

John (Crosley)

Great momentum, awesome crop...fantastic "blue collar" atmosphere, pure photography!

In this photo, no one can accuse me of rubbing noses with the moneyed classes.

I have a 55~300 Nikkor lens with the personal ability when using V.R. to hand hold at about 240 mm sharpness down to about 1/13 of so when I'm firmly planted, my subjects are not moving and I can shoot a burst.  One will come out, almost always, even though the V.R. will make the subjects jump around in the frame a bit if shooting a burst -- which I don't always do and not here, for instance.

I love your comment.

This is a pure 'blue collar' moment to borrow your expression -- something I'm proud of -- to mix with the blue collar (and dirtier collars) to get those wonderful photos.  I would have done well, I think, as a Depression era photographer, but the equipment then was much more rudimentary and hard to deal with.

These people I didn't have to interact with, but the next shot I did interact with a complete stranger - a man with a wonderful face I preserved possibly forever, cigarette, whiskers (badly shaved), puffy face, and all.

I appreciate your comment so much.

john

John (Crosley)