The Precocious Daughter

The little girl's smile is charming and mischievous. The triangular perspective formed by the smiling trio captivates and catches the viewer's attention. Looks like our little star has her fans.

This young daughter, her mother gazing lovingly on, as well as a

traveling friend, is on her way from America to Turkey, charming

fellow travelers as she goes. Here she makes a stop in Munich,

Germany for a plane change. Your ratings and critiques are invited

and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, please

contribute a constructive comment; please share your superior

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! John

Yes the triangle is cool

three different glances ... you caught their soul with one click:-) Bravo, Giuseppe

Adan Wong resume perfectly what I wanted tell you about this picture. Nice to "meet" you here mon copain Adam and nice to "see" you John. Regards, Roger.

To all of you who commented and rated, much thought went into the choice of composition of this photo.

 

It's destined, when software for Presentations is upgraded, for my 'threes' Presentation.

 

The little girl was absolutely precocious and extremely cute and very aware of it, and so was her mother who had no qualms about daughter being photographed (that's mom, to her left (our right), and a traveling friend, rear.

 

I have a much better expression on the little girl, but the composition is not as good with the 'threes' arranged 'just so' and the various assortment of approving smiles.

 

This just goes to show that I don't always take photos of old men/women and also can take photos of kids and attractive women -- it's just that in the US such things are very hard. (Also I don't post many of my photos of attractive women; they conflict with the gravaman of my work.)

 

Best to you all (I'll be back in this place in two and a half hours from now -- I'm on Warsaw and being misrouted back to Munich as I write this . . . . oh, the vagaries of International Air Travel, as I never was supposed to be in Munich today . . . . ' and just don't want to be there.

 

John (Crosley)

 

 

Best to you all.

 

Nice bokeh. The only thing I would say is that the photo is a bit too sharp or contrasted. The charm of this little girl, imho, could do with a little bit softer tones. In the olden b&w film times I would have printed it on matte, soft-graded paper.

 

Best,

 

Luca

What a coincidence John. I took that same routing Warsaw to Munich some time ago and it's not that bad. Have a safe journey my friend. Salut Roger. C'est une surprise de te trouver ici.

It was a little dark and I used a little too much shadow/highlight filter on it on a jpeg; I didn't have software at the time for working on the raw file which I do now. I often lose track in my files where a photo is, once I've worked on it and I go to post it, even though they're carefully organized and numbered by download on huge hard dives (one half to one and one half terabyte each 12 to 14 terabyte drives alone).

 

The whole mass of all my shooting is just overwhelming, though, and it overpowers my machines when I attach one or more terabytes of outboard memory to a computer with a program.

 

I often end up with files such as Lightroom taking hours to sort though files to create an index and thumbnails, and same with other files, before they will let me use them, whereas with Adobe Camea Raw and CS3, which regrettably no longer is available to me (or was until today), I could surf though my files with 'browse' and find photos rather expeditiously; but that function no longe was at my disposal -- regrettably quality suffered to reflect that, I think, as here. I think if I had had the softward to work the raw file, it would have come out quite nicely IF that software had been ACR from CS3.

 

Now I almost got stranded with my three computes, five cameras 12, lenses and 11 hard drives (all cary on) as LOT wanted to check the 'lot' to Munich and then transfer them to Kyiv as checked baggage and I peaded, cajoled, and threatened to get my way (can you imagine after the thieves and the baggage monkeys got through with my cameas, lenses and smaller and huge hard dives what I would have had left? (they were ok'd for carry on to Kyiv, but the connecting plane took off because we were four hours late in arriving in Warsar, so I had to backtrack through Munich, delayed by 11 hours.

 

And believe it or not, I sat in this very seat only hours after I penned the response above, and schmoozed with the 'Aran' restaurant personnel -- who are always delighted to see me, big cameras, big lenses and all.

 

I did get to Kyiv and Ukraine where I'm working off a pirated Internet signal (no Internet where I'm staying, or so my companion was told, but the air is full of strange signals, and I'm on one of them.)

 

;~)

 

Good ol' wi-fi and unsecured signals.

 

John (Crosley)