Prayer

I am glad to be the first person to comment on your latest picture, Jim.

 

Have not heard from you for a long time! Welcome back!

 

This photograph is involving and passionate. At first I found it to be too dark. However at a second glance - it adds to the story and mood.

 

Cheers,

Your fan,

Ringo

Most Pow Wows have a Grand Entry at noon and at 7 pm each day that the event takes place.

Participants, dressed in regalia, parade onto center stage in groups -- these two gentlemen are probably in the Senior Mens Traditional group.

Once everyone has assembled the flag-bearers that lead everyone in have their flags retired. A prayer is offered and brief speeches are given.

Once thats completed the drumming and dancing exhibits begin!

This is a shot of the annual North Vancouver, Squamish Band, August 2002, Canada Day Pow Wow's, noon Grand Entry. The sun was blazing down yet I found the intensity of the moment to be just as strong.

Hope you enjoy the shot as much as I enjoy Pow Wowing!

Excellent. Please check my folder, I have some Indian shots as well. Nothing to match the intensity of this image however. Regards, Howard

This shots original scan.

Excellent composition. Nice tones. Very good PS work on this photo.

Wonderful work! I'm glad that you're back!

Hey, Jim!

 

Great to see you posting again. Now maybe well see something from the Pacific NW beside's KW's eggs!

 

You've clearly captured the spiritual importance of this ceremony. My only reservation about the vivid sepia is that the separation between the two subjects seems reduced, so that at a glance it doesn't "read" as well as the B&W version. Also, on the sepia version, it looks as if you burned-in the white feather with repeated strokes from a fairly small brush. One or two hits from a 700 pixel brush would probably produce a smoother result.

Make sense?

 

 

Hope we see a lot more like this one. --jim

I find the comments left on critique photo's are often great ego builders -- we all like being told out shots are the bomb -- but are seldom thought provoking. (Please dont get me wrong as Id like it to be mandatory that one must leave a comment before they can rate a photo.).

Therefore I find comments like Jim McNitts to be priceless. You see I never know how good my photos are. Add to that the fact that I tend to get lazy! So I need to be pushed and Jim's comment does just thatit makes me reevaluate this shot.

Ive decided his opinion on the feather is totally correct, I mottled it thinking it would add a sense of dimensionality -- it doesnt show that -- no, it looks like a cheap job of burning!

And the comment on the sepia tone reducing the separation between the two? That one is harder! I played around with different sepia/non-sepia versions after reading Jims comment. I think Ill hold off on a decision on that until I actually print a couple shots!

And so to closeonce again, thanks to those that get me thinking

Priceless? Yikes. I've been getting called all sorts of things lately. And now "priceless?" :-) Off to see if there are new JV uploads I can pick apart. --jim

I actually like the separation better in the sepia shot. The background figure is just a tad too much in focus to me, and the foreground figure captures my attention more in the sepia version. To me, the original doesn't draw attention enough to the powerful expression of the foreground figure.

Jim ...... often I do not leave a comment because I possess no formal training in art nor photography .... I do not have years of experience .... and almost zero PS skills. Therefore, I do not hold my opinion in those areas in high regard and see no reason for you to either. Jim McNitt, or 'Little Jimmy' as his friends call him, possesses the experience, knowledge and skills that to me, make his opinions valuable. I do however respect your feelings about leaving a comment so here I have done so .

 

To me , the expression on his face reveals the intensity of his spirituality that I deeply admire.

I've read through all the other comments, so I won't be repetitive (hopefully). While I appreciate the shot, I can't help but be distracted by the white, diagonal "stripe" coming from the man's mouth in the foreground. I keep trying to see through it or beyond it, but there it is.... I enjoyed the folder very much, overall. cc

Chris...I feel your pain!!! That white strip, a long bone bead that sits in front of the white ermine fur of the Chiefs headdress is what almost killed the shot for me when I looked at the original neg scan.

I couldn't figure out how to overcome it's presence conventionally so I sepia-ed and rearranged the tones of the print in an attempt to make it less distracting.

Appreciate your comments...jim

Over the past few days mr k williams has, in his very modest uneggbroidered style, add his exegesis to a couple of my photo's.

Yes, k williams depicts himself as a snapshooter -- a yoke at best!

One simply has to study the light, composition, shadow and texture of a shot such as this to know that k williams is in fact a spirited seer of light and shooter eggtraordinaire.

Well worded - as usual ..... (-;

 

The best thing about the Egggs ? ............. Is the special people it has allowed me to associate with here on the site ..... people like yourself.