A Few Faces in the Crowd** *

Here are a few faces in the crowd I encountered recently. Your

ratings and critiques are invited and most welcome. If you rate

harshly or very critically, please submit a helpful and constructive

comment/Please share your superior photographic knowledge to help

improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

This photo is destined for my 'Presentation' on 'threes' in which the subject matter of 'three' predominates in the photo.

 

John (Crosley)

When I first joined Photo.net, I saw such strange images as this and wondered . . . 'from where do members get such 'wondrous and strange images'.

 

Well, know I know. You carry a camera everywhere, and sooner or later, if you stay sharp enough, point the camera at enough stuff, and stay out of those Iowa bean fields, (travel) you're bound to find some pretty extraordinary stuff.

 

Combine that with an assortment of lenses and really any old camera (I use digital but an old N90 film would have worked just as nicely), and voila.

 

That's where such images come from.

 

Digital just gives you an opportunity to edit in the field.

 

And not pay Costco or some other $200 a week just for basic film developing.

 

I figure my Nikon D70 paid for itself after its first three or four weeks just in cost savings (excluding all the hard drives I had to purchse to save the hundreds of thousands of images ;-)) which far exceed the projected shutter life.)

 

So, that's how it's done.

 

It's really pretty simple.

 

Look at the bottoms of your shoes.

 

If they have no holes or are not delaminating, you probably haven't taken such photos as this (or others as absurd.)

 

A rumination.

 

John (Crosley)

The third... It looks like a group of "field actors" that were wandering from place to place in the middle ages, entertaining people in villages. what is remarkable is the smile vs.the other two....

This photo is totally absurd, isn't it. Actors, they are, and this photo is totally surreal, and thankfully, 'theater lighting' is not used, or its worth would have been destroyed . . . as a theater context would have destroyed its worth, I think. It's better with 'natural lighting' leaving it to the imagination where this 'oddball' photo came from.

 

Maybe they're just orphans left over from the 'Wizard of Oz'?

 

As it looks now, it just looks more 'gnome-like'.

 

Perhaps this is what 'Swiss bankers' look like when in Zurich they crawl under Bahnhofstrass (Zurich's main street lined by banks which have vaults under the sidewalks and high-end shoppes and stores) to inspect the gold in vaults from dictators such as Idi Amin of Uganda, Sadam Hussein of Iraq, Pol Pot of Cambodia, the Wal-Mart fortune . . . ;-))

 

And I had a passing acquaintance with Mr. Sam (Walton who founded Wal-Mart -- we used to speak by phone periodically) . . . and I think he's be aghast at his heirs' behavior . . . but who knows.

 

Thanks for taking the trouble to look, Pnina -- I posted a list of the Argentine buskers' photos for your effort back where I commented on this series of photos (you might go back to look at the original comment).

 

John (Crosley)