men of the navy ...Men of the Navy...

Flottans M䮠= Men of the Navy. Its a group of people that has worked

in the Navy (all sorts of work on the sea) that sing together. They

had a show today and i was asked to take a few photos. I got a few

good portraits and group portraits while they sang. Hope you enjoy

it. No crop, Handheld.

 

Comments are most welcome!

 

Regards,

 

Patrick J

> In 1954 the late, world class photographer, Yousuf Karsh took a photo of the famed cellist Pablo Casals in what appears to be a small room. Karsh took the shot from behind Casals, over his right shoulder as he sat and solemnly played his cello. The image is photography extraordinaire. (Copies sell for six to seven thousand dollars, US.)

A young man stopped at the gallery every afternoon and went to that picture and silently gazed at it for extended periods of time. Overcome by the ritual, the curator approached the visitor and asked him what so fascinated him about this one piece of art. The young man quickly and softly replied, "Shhh! Can't you hear the music?"

Your image of these naval singers quickly brought Karsh's image to mind. It is almost alive with sound. I don't know what others will think of this portrait; but for me, it is as good as they get...in this sort of category of course.

Color scheme is simiple (basically three); placement of the foreground singer is on target. On my monitor the skin tone is a bit red.

I am 54 years old and have been a musician all my life. Again, I will tell you, this image is alive with not only sound, but the emotional vim of the moment. This is the first pic of yours I've seen...came to it via the Rate Recent page. Your image gives complete meaning to the addage "a picture is worth a thousand words."

HumblyCerto

I stated this is the first image of yours I've seen. I'd forgotten your name and upon opening your view all thumbnail page, I remember commenting on one of the ship images and your old watchtower pictures, especially the textures. :-)

Thank you very much for your long comment and thougth about this shot! =) Ive also been doing music and its still one of my passions in life so your comment gives me much joy! =) I think you have commented on my photos before though.. =)

 

Thank you once again for your wonderful comment and story! =) Im honored!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick J

Thanks for the comeback. I've made numerous attempts to rate this pic and have just now rebooted and tried again. All I get is "Rating Insert Failed." :-(

I'll get back to it soon enough and give you the top marks.

Thank you Certo.. =))

 

Regards,

 

Patrick J

Patrick, I have tried almost every day and sometimes twice in the day to rate this image and continue to get the failed insert page. I never get it on any other images. This week I built a new pc with all or most of the bells and whistles and set it up for high speed connection and different IP number. "Surely this will get thejob done!" Well, it didn't. My wife teaches school and next week I'll try from her pc when I take her over for a teacher's work day and do some errands of my own. If I fail with that, I'll assume it has to do with my handle...some kind of PhotoNet glitch. I know it's not the end of the wolrd; but I did promise to try and I'll continue as long as I think there's some chance I can get it done.

Regards

Im glad you tried to vote Certo! =) That only is worth more to me then a high rate from you! Thank you! =)

 

Regards,

 

Patrick J

Very curious. I just again tried to rate the image and I get a 3-word message: "Rating Insert Failed."

Perhaps photo.net doesnt like this image and doesnt want it to get to high ratings? ;) Guess the image is broken in their system or something. Thanks again though for trying. Im very happy that you like this image so much as i like it myself alot as well!

 

Have a great weekend!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick J