The Well

Water is a very importent in a country which is a desert in a big portion of its terrain. The Niger River is a good source for people living on its borders, but many rural population need to recieve and carry their water from wells, sometime real far away from their houses.

 

Thanks for your thoughts. Pnina

Thanks, Pnina

Pnina, will there be a time where the well go dry?

Shalom Spencer, I assume it is a possibility , Don't you think so?...

Well,I think so too. Let's keep them in our prayer. Shalom to you dearest friend.

I really like your lively & nice series of local life, excellent light & exposure control for perfect details & good layers, and very well capture with different expression!!! Best regards.

Powerful image Pnina! It does tell a story of these people!

very beautiful pic!!! Fantastic B&W..!!!!

I like that you can see the harshness of the land, even in b&w. I'm wondering what that bit of blurred area is on the lower left (it's distracting me somewhat)? I'd consider cropping, but then you would lose that interesting bit of tree in the upper left.

This image instantly reminded me of the last scence of the movie "Millions". To think that these children will be responsible to carry cases of water on their heads back to their families in the villages deprived of water makes me sad.

Pnina, I'm thinking how good a drink of this good cool well water must be to these kids, and what a luxury it probably is to them......I can tell that a good heart is behind these photographs, God be with you.....Jim

Richard,Vincent, Francesco,Kim, Haleh and Jim, thanks for your written impressions.

Kim, that part is sand and shadow( of some other person standing out of the image), I did not want to give up the tree... so I left it.

 

Haleh, Yes it is unbelivable how we, look at water coming from the tap as the most natural thing...They work hard to get water for every day needs.

 

Jim, thanks for your kind words.

 

Thanks again to all of you for taking a part here.

Pnina, another great picture from you made even more interesting with a black & white conversion. Well done. By the way, I understand that odd numbers have more artistic appeal than even numbers. Three children more artistic. I don't know where that rule came from? Maybe someone on PN can explain.

Pnina..

Love the image captured.

Thank you.

A good glimpse into the rural like that is so far away from us. You really lead us through a documentary seris, Pnina.

Howard, I don't think there are rules about it....and if there are, no problem to break them as long as the last result works.

 

Chipsy,really glad to see you !thanks and skype. with Cherlyn!!

 

Thanks to all of you, Pnina

Beautiful continued documentary and I love the effect that you have created with the B & W. A great moment captured and once again a life that most of us will never either understand or see.

 

Great image.

Hi Marco, thanks for your visit, always nice to read your thoughtful comments. Pnina

Beautiful glimpse of life and the harshness of the land, Pnina. You really have

captured the land and its people in this series of photos.

This is just beautiful,The B&W is very becoming,even the cloth must have attractive colors.It gives such a wonderful timeless feeling.

Pnina, how are they about keeping the water clean ... and about hygiene? Isn't that a significant problem in third world countries?

Hi Lou Ann, Hygiene is a real problem in that kind of country where there is no infrastructure or very little of it. that why mortality of babaies is so very high there. Thanks for your interest and comments. Pnina