black and white: then to now The Lineup

This is 'The Lineup' of Ukrainian citizens outside an ATM in

Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, but it could be any country in the world

that has ATMs, I think. This is posted for its compositional devices

(threes and background). 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

Great catch as usual. The perspective is well balanced with the guy as the center anchoring the composition. The face of a beautiful model is imposed over this trio like a deity waiting to be worshipped. Come to think of it, isn't beauty something that is worshipped after all? Money is a god along with beauty. Both can enslave.

Adan, once again, you have added something to a photo that I have produced -- adding something that I didn't see or couldn't see enough at least to articulate.

 

But this is Ukraine and they are not worshipping before the beauty that is omnipresent, but waiting for the most precious thing -- money. And ATMS are a new thing entirely -- having been added in the last two or three years, as well as banks, indeed, as there were no banks two or three years ago, no credit, no checks, no credit cards and no one to take credit cards - a cash economy almost entirely.

 

No signs advertise 'easy credit' 'Prosto Kredit' it will say (in anglicized Russian/Ukrainskij). So, they are patiently waiting to get their own money, and ignoring the pretty woman beside them, and, as typical in a photo of this sort i'll post, arranged geometrically - otherwise, why post it?

 

I see such things all the time -- it's my 'gift' if nothing else. I actually phtograph very little but 'see' a very lot.)

 

And right now I'm not far from you and trying to make sense of Silicon Valley.

 

Before I go atraveling again.

 

Ready to shoot some birds with my long lenses this weekend.

 

Superlong lenses.

 

Gonna go to Elkhorn Slough -- Moss Landing North Jetty, also Dairy Farm and a state park or other landing up the slough to shoot the birds -- driving my old beater Toyota . .. too lazy to get it fixed . . . after some druggie smashed it a year and a half ago and the insurance was a year and a half late in paying . . . they ignored me completely (I won't write their name as I have an injury claim and we'll see if they have 'fair and friendly service before I write their name, and if it's not then, we'll give them a big writeup. Who'd have ever thunk the last year and a half I've spent half my time in bed . . . . I just don't write those sorts of things -- that's why I had an 'assistant' --I just didn't tell anybody -- don't want to be thought of as a wimp, but the fees were thousands and tens of thousands of dollars.

 

John (Crosley)

I wish you good luck with your claim John. You should have nice weather this weekend for some shots down where you are.

and well spotted! John Crosley's eye!

 

Luca

Just one of those oddball little moments, preserved forever. It's all in where the photographer stands as well and how well he 'sees' what the possibilities are - one foot to the right or left and 'no photograph'.

 

I had to wait a while to get just the juxtaposition and the position of the standers, but I got it.

 

I 'see' then I wait until what I 'see' comes to fruition sometimes or sometimes even better.

 

This time it happened (one or the other, I forget which and it hardly matters, does it?).

 

Thanks for the helpful observation.

 

John (Crosley)