jon_fernquest

Any comments welcome.

Love the way the light comes up slightly from below, but not too much. The shades of grey are wonderful as is the face hidden by the smoke. This is my favorite in the folder.

> I wish the guy's face were sharper.

 

I do too. Guess I just got to get better at focusing before the subject is in plain view. Also I'm going to start using 1/250th for all street shots.

Any comments welcome.

Thanks for the comments.

 

I envy you.

Sure wish we had exhibitions like that around here.

I can't get any new photos to look at by people

like that. Exhausted the web and local bookstore.

I really wish I could get hold of the books

these guys published and also especially Koudelka.

 

 

We're getting an exhibit in the nearby Chiangsaen

historical museum of photos taken a hundred years ago by a French

photographer of a tribe that just blended into Cambodian

society and disappeared. Doesn't exist today.

Same thing's happening with Akha hilltribes today

in Chiangrai often in strange ways like missionaries

are pulling kids out of villages to educate them in schools

down in the low lands which on the surface seems nice

but it destroys Akha society when there are no kids to follow

in their parent's footsteps. Matthew McDaniel:

 

http://www.akha.org/

 

has been watching it happen for 12 years.

Eventually I'll convince him to start a photography project.

He's fluent in the Akha which should really help.

All the member's of Chiangrai's Alliance Frnacaise photo club

get to contribute photos to the exhibit too, but I'm afraid none of

our photos are relevant to the theme of whole cultures disappearing.

 

Cheers.

 

 

Thank you for the comment and rating. Sorry for sounding so serious above. I'm still recovering from living in the place, that is Burma. I love the people but there are so many problems there, making enough to eat for your family, the health system for your family when they are sick and dieing. If you attempt to live there you inevitably get wrapped up emotionally in those problems yourself. Cheers.

Any comments welcome. Had a hard time taking this photo because it

was very dark, much darker than it appears in the photo and f3.5 was

the lowest I could go on my 28mm lens. Have another one where he's

closer but couldn't avoid motion blur with him and the water. Any tips

for this type of situation?

These guys aren't dangerous at all. They're just young guys taking a break from work.

 

The dangerous ones in Tachileik are the Wa druglords that produce mephamphetamines. In a country in which people typically earn $1 a day if they can find work, these Wa druglords are filthy rich. The Burmese government allows them to carry their guns around with them in Yangon. They provide much of the capital to the Burmese banks which have no real international connections at all. (The contractor who was building the apartment next to ours in Yangon was thrown in jail after the Wa bank pulled his financing. He was found guilty of fraud for being unable to repay some prepayments that future tenants had made. Everytime we opened our window we saw his family who was camping out in the skeleton of the unfinished building while he served his jail term. The inscrutable East?)

 

Any comments welcome.Part of a series on farming in Chiangrai, Thailand:black and white 1,black and white 2,black and white 3, black and white 4, and Color.

Love the color and the way the grass has caught the light, as well as the way it leans with the current of the stream below.

 

The colors in these canyon shots are exquisite. This one reminds me of Georgia O' Keefe orchid photos.

 

You certainly captured the great visual impact that this statue can make!

Any comments welcome.Part of a series of portraits of farmers.

Any comments are welcome.Part of a series on rice planting in color and black and white

I really envy you. I don't how accidental this was, but it sure is beautiful.

 

 

Love the colors, the hues, and the soft gradual gradations of color. (The raw wood of the table appears to play some role in this.) The simplicity of the lines and curves make a wonderful composition. The glass and the blast of light through the glass make a wonderful center of focus.

Love the low key light with so much hidden in the shadows, combined with the close crop they almost seem detached from the rest of the world, floating without orientation all by themselves. Sublime.

Wonderful high contrast light. The composition really stands out when viewed from a distance and up close the texture of the hand and face still stands out. Fantastic!

Wonderulf light and shadows, the grid the skate marks on the ice, the blown out place where the sun hits, the gesture of the skater's hands, great moment, great capture.

Looks like a Calder mobile (maybe because it's so dark on my internet cafe monitor). I really love this effect. Wish my monitor allowed me to see more the grain of the wood. Lovely.

Wonderful!

I didn't think of turning that line in the mud to the left into another diagonal.

 

I guess I was too busy trying to compose by the book, getting the planter a third of the way into the frame and the rice stocks positioned as a foreground center of interest.

 

Thanks for pointing that out. You're facing the same constraints and situation everytime you shoot in a rice field and diagonal lines are a nice compositional element.

You've cropped out a particularly beautiful segment of this stem and the plain black background really makes the lines of the stem and the texture stand out.

Wonderful idea: steam spewing out out of manhole cover with headlights piercing it as it winds into the sky. You did a great job of capturing this in the split second that you had. Love tyhe texture in the manhole cover and the cement around it.

Mysterious! I can see you're developing a great photographic series on the steam that wells up from New York streets. I'm enjoying the new additions.

Cool! Ignore the low ratings from anonymous cowards.