anthonyirik

Superfast?

Probably walked right past you in the huge crowds! I could often be found eating then-thuk and momos at the Amdo Yak cafe next to the initiation compound.

Human cause and affect - The inner Kora: Offerings of 7 of 9 cups of

water, candles and incense litter the edges of chortens and the

pathway of the inner kora. Pilgrims take advantage of the soot from

the stacks of burning incense to leave their family name.

A touch of underexposure would have turned the water completely black and exposed the swans better - Same goes for snow-scenes - you can get some funky shots the same way by push-processing your film and increasing its rating: increasing contrast - lights lighter, darks darker. Nice shot - perhaps by croping in closer on the more bunched swans on the bottom left might improve the image furthur, cutting out the flare also.

I love this!

 

I have taken tonnes of closeups of fields but this is unique in its own way - good use of an otherwise ordinary sky - sillouettes the cat tails [is that barley?] nicely.

Cafe doorway in busy street

Critiques welcome - plus have a look at my other Kalachakra photos,

ill get the rest uploaded when I sign up.

Critiques welcome

Vegetable market at around 7am.

I appreciate your comments, thanks. I was trying to capture the essence of a landfill site - they arent especially photogenic, which is why I chose to sillouette - Photography should stimulate the observer into thinking, it shouldnt necessarily be obvious, yes this could be a farm during the backburn season, it could be a number of things -

- Maybe its photojournalism in a raw form - a subject, loosely tied to a photograph, reinforced with words - A photograph tells a thousand words etc etc, but one with a title can provoke imagination and thought - ?

Taken at dawn - the steam is from exothermic reactions produced by

decomposition.

The hardest thing is keeping the lines of the bridge parallel - Its a mismatch of not being too close whereby you develop diverging lines/perspective, and not being too far away so that you need to excessively enlarge the image/invest in a honking great telephoto. I was standing at the end of the Overseas passenger Terminal - where all the cruise-ships moor up - Shot using 300mm/f8 or f11.

Either hate it or loathe it....

No PS'ing - I think the darkness on the right was caused by my ill-mannered slidescanner -

Any comments welcome

On the edge of the inner-harbour, Sydney

I bracketed half of the roll of film I took here -to excentuate the highlights with some degree of effect, the colours are as is, with nominal corrections from whiteness generated by my slidescanner - Ill upload some more when i have time ;)

Journalism - its not as strong as something from the Gulf war, it doesnt show death or destruction, but to me it is Journalism - when you consider the location of Sri Lanka - consider how many boats skip by the coast, like this one without a second thought from anyone - Every boat heading east to west, west to east HAS to pass this point - I think its pretty significant - its not going to win me a nobel peace prize, but its more than just a picture of a Tanker: Then again, perhaps its just me!

You have a great selection of portraiture here!! You are right about the use of colour in India - I just spent 11mths travelling through india, nepal, sri lanka and Tibet, and took mostly colour but am still getting round to scanning them all in - ill keep you posted

I took a few photos of this guy at a chai stall in the desert outside

of Bikaneer on a camel safari - He seemed pretty amused by the entire

situation - Check out the other pic on my site - without ciggy :)

Pressure valves at a Petroleum storage facility - San Diego.

 

Theres a few more shots in my SILO folder - any comments welcome :)

First of a series - I took dozens of pics allover india of their

record breaking railway system: wins handsdown as the biggest network

in the world, and also as the largest company of employees, both

directly and indirectly -

 

Like trains? Go to India.

Nice use of long-exposure. I like the way the image is partially overexposed over highlights - it excentuates the spray and haze from those storm-surges. Not sure how this would look enlarged seems a touch out of focus on the horizon, windy shaky tripod - inevitable at such an exposed position.

Off-shore - Mirissa. One of the busiest shipping lanes in the world -

ocean-bound container ships and tankers cruise by in formation - the

same distance behind and infront of other boats heading to Singapore,

East Asia and Australasia, and back to the middle-east and the

west.

This shot was actually taken at sunrise - not sunset - this may be the reason why the colours are so unique.

- No filters, I only use a UV/skylight, No tripod, used prop and clenched fist... lazy me.