- A Sunny Sunday along the Waterfront

The kids of this family followed the capers of the ducks after they

had fed them. I don't know if their daddy does too....

 

I appreciate your constructive comments,

 

Ada

The composition with the boy is good ... but the man looking in a total different direction is an distraction to me ... perhaps cropping would help?

Thank you very much that you took the time to comment my picture J. Montgomery. I appreciate your suggestion. Though I think that the fact that the man looks in a total different direction makes this picture just interesting (at least that is my opinion). The expression on the man's face and the way he has turned his head and eyes away, gives me the impression that he wasn't mentally at that place at that moment. He just sat there and gazed into the water while his wife and kids were real interested in what the ducks where doing. His stare fasinated me and I'm still wondering about what was going on in his mind.

 

Perhaps that after my explanation of the situation you have got a better impression and I hope that the man will no longer form a distraction for you.

 

At any rate, thanks again for your comment J.

 

Ada.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really like the sepia tone and the guy does make the pic stand out a bit more.

ITDOESN'T BOTHER ME IN ANY WAY THE MAN LOOKING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION TO ME IT ADDS TO THE PICTURE THAT'STHE REASON I CLICKED ON IT ATRACTED MY ATENTION AND REMINDS ME OF MYSELF BEING IN ANOTHER WORLD VERY OFTEN ADA I love it AND GREAT TONE TOO CONGRATULATIONS

Hi Thomas, thank you very much for your kind words. I'm glad that you appreciate this picture. Many greetings, Ada:)

 

Dear Tony, your opinion concerns this picture means very much to me. The expression in this man's eyes really attracted me; he was completely lost in thoughts and wasn't conscious of the world outside. I'm convinced that he even hadn't the faintest notion that I was taking pictures.

 

The spot where I took this shot was along the canal of the castle in Heeze. Do you remember that place Tony? We have walked around there when you and Hanneke visited us some months ago and we need to redo it, don't you think? For now many greetings Tony and thanks again for your great support! Ada:~)

 

 

 

 

 

Nice shot, Ada. If that had been shot in the U.S., I would say that he was a refugee of the sixties or seventies, although in truth most refugees of that era are now my age or close to it.

 

Yes, he was truly lost in thought, or else on drugs, and so let us assume that he was lost in thought. I like the contrast between his fixation and that of the younger people in the photo.

 

--Lannie

Hi Lannie, nice to see you and thank you for your kind comment.

 

I agree with you; It looks as if the man comes straight of the sixties. I'm sure he was in deep thoughts and I don't think he has used drugs.

 

My next remark is not particular directed to you Lannie, but now you mentioned drugs I like to say that many times I get the impression that foreigers have the prejudice that almost everybody in Holland uses drugs; that we Dutchies find it quiet normal that people blow and sniff etc. The opposite is true. I'm sure that the average use of drugs in countries as for example the US, Great Brittan, parts of Asia, South and Central America and Africa is much higher than in my country. I think it's the open way in which we discuss the drugs issue which gives us the image of being a country full of blowers and junkies.

 

But if the man has been a refugee I would have had full understand when he was under the dope.

 

Many greetings Lannie, Ada.

People have varying opinions about the Netherlands' "liberal" drug policy. My own view is that it is probably the sanest approach to a difficult problem--and one that actually results in fewer persons who become addicts or who turn to crime.

 

In the U.S., by contrast, we tend to criminalize addiction, or else tend to drive people to crime by making drugs illegal rather than controlled, and then we build more and more prisons to house the criminals thus created.

 

In this as in so many areas, Americans would rather find someone to blame rather than solve problems. (Look at the "search for Osama" and the "War on Terror," for example--we would rather find the "bad guys" than critique our own Middle Eastern foreign policy.)

 

Of course, that generalization about Americans is not always true, any more than the stereotype of your country is true, but puritanical cultures must find some way to stigmatize people so that the "righteous" shine forth even more brightly.

 

As for drugs and the Netherlands, I understand that a lot of problems with drug users there come from having to deal with persons who come there from other countries.

 

A lot of us see your country as the most progressive country on the planet. Thus our continuing interest in a country that is small in size but which continues to produce a disproportionate number of great minds--great scientists and artists, etc.

 

Back to the picture: I never really thought of this as being about drug use. I was only kidding. Yes, he surely appears to be totally lost in thought, totally uninvolved in whatever has the attention of the others. It is actually a very well done picture, not the kind that hits one in the face, but one that gets more interesting the longer one looks at it.

 

Say "hi" to Rob for me. He hasn't posted here in ages.

 

--Lannie

Exclente imagen ,,,,como la anterior , un bello encuadre y una magnifica composicion, saludos cordiales Ada Van.