'Glorious Gossip'

Three women in Buenos Aires, Argentina trade stories and observations as they gossip

at the end of a day outside their homes. 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 And

please see my NEW HOME PAGE linked on my bio page which contains a portfolio of

over 1,000 photos, most in color, many of which have never been posted here -- some

of my absolute best work. jc

The color version, which I like very much, is in my ImageBrief.com portfolio under a short biography.

You can see that and over 1,000 other photos (most in color), many never seen here or anywhere, by clicking on my new 'Home Page" link on my Photo.Net biography page.  

I invite you to have a look there and compare the two, then let me know which you think is stronger if you do go there (the color version is toward the top of the 1,000+ photos -- at least for now).

john

John (Crosley)

I like the partial window in the image, good shadows as well. However, the face that the woman on the right is making, I see a picture with in a picture. To me almost borderline disturbing in a  way I love it

Nice capture and timing, well done.

So much fun! I wish I were there too! Well captured.

Genuine and natural feelings on display are what makes a great street shot. Not that I'm telling you anything you don't already know John. This is a marvelous image from the tones and composition to the message and your title. Thanks for sharing and wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a healthy and Happy New Year.

Best Regards, Holger

Thank you for the compliments; about light and 'composure' but I think you mean 'composition' as 'composure' is another word entirely, but no scolding; I understand your meaning entirely.  

Thank you again.

Best wishes and happy holiday season.

john

John (Crosley)

Yes, the woman, right has an amazing smile/laugh, doesn't she, and I caught her at just the most interesting moment -- the apex of her expression, as I am wont to do.

Same, I think with the middle woman, except unlike the right woman, the middle woman is not as you describe 'borderline disturbing' which to me is  high compliment, because it means that you were affected by this photo, and lingered a little rather than dismissing it or passing it over.  Hooray!

I long to take 'interesting' photos, and every once in a while I succeed, then I try to share them; this one is 'old' but it required newest Photoshop to rescue and make post worthy -- I save old stuff just for such days, and unless I told, you'd never know the difference, right?

Best holiday wishes. and thanks.

john

John (CrosleY)

This is an old capture from early days, saved because of a defect, but saved on purpose for work when Photoshop was improved enough to rescue it, and voila, it looks like to took it yesterday.

Thanks especially for the remark about timing; that's why this one was saved and 'aged' so long.  It didn't get 'better' with age, but with 'additional work' that formerly was impossible, and then it's crept into my very best, and with GREAT timing -- for me unbelievable then and still now.

Thanks again.  Have good holidays.

john

John (Crosley)

Despite your kind comment, I haven't been there in ages -- this is a 'leftover' and heretofore unprocessable photo that I've rescued. It had all the earmarks of a good to great photo with great expressions and timing, but had an (unnamed) defect, fixable only recently by additions to Photoshop.  

Credit where credit is due.  Thank me for the capture and Adobe for the ability finally to be able to fix its defect and make it achieve its potential worth.  Despite the above comment, I'd love to go there; it's summer now!

Happy New Year!

john

John (Crosley)

Thank you for a most gracious comment; I agree that it's of my better photos; I'm not in love with all I post, but value the feedback; this one I do like very much.

Also thank you for your comment on tonalities; I once was a Photoshop idiot, and wilfully so, because I figured the time spent learning and applying Photohop was time I could be shooting, and in my old age I could be editing and learning Photoshop, so if my early photos were not so well processed, it was willful ignorance, from my eagerness to get back out shooting and damn post-processing, which is so time consuming . . . still is, but I've gotten better and better, as our comment shows.

Thanks again.

Enjoy the holiday season.

john

John (Crosley)

Great lively view of humanity and our overall commonality.  This could just as easily be three women outside a brick apartment building in Brooklyn or Ravenswood as it is of Kiev.  Nicely done.

You made a point, about how this photo could be anywhere, like say, Ravenswood as Kyiv.

Well, it's actually Buenos Aires,  Argentina, and I think that makes the point even better. 

You said basically 'this photo is universal' (at least among white people'), and I agree; and the place it was taken helps prove your point.  Yours was NOT a mistake, but sets me up to help prove the point you were making.

Please keep coming back, Steve.  Your evaluations are worthy.

john

John (Crosley)