doctorbabaguy

Excellent photography. Outstanding tonality and mood.

Very nice balance to the composition, bringing out a sense of desolation. Nice tone separation, especially in the highlights. The fog adds a sense of mystery. Well done!

How does he learn to sing the song of the wild and the free? Children in India go to school when they are as young as three years old, where their parents are interviewed and the kids have to take admissions test. They spend their days in the school memorizing alphabets, learning to read and write through rote memorization, and are under strict discipline. Most, including the photographer and writer of this post, lament their lost childhood when they grow up.

Simple yet striking. The figures are placed in perfect position to provide an ominous mood, as if a premonition of something disastrous, the pair walking into an inevitable doom...like it is today in Ukraine.

My heartfelt condolence for your loss. I was attracted to this sensitive portrait by the force of his eyes, his personality. A fitting tribute to your father's memory. A luminous portrait.

Regards.

Excellent composition and very fine processing. (I would have voted for it for the black and white photo competition, but for the fact that you have artificially blurred the two faces. I wonder why you did that...in my opinion, it completely destroyed the photo!)

This is perhaps the most attractive photo to me in your black and white collection. Superbly timed, and the tonality is just perfect. A beautiful slice of life. Love it!

Beautiful and tender portrait. Bravo!

Brilliant photo! Love the dynamism and the lines. YOu took another color photo of the same subject, which is also good, but this one is really striking!

Superbly composed. Warm and beautiful color.

Just brilliant. To my favorite!

Another beautiful photograph in a complex setting.

This is also an excellent study.  Just that the technicalities are not stellar, but by the sheer quality of content this is really very high.

Straight into my favorites.  A one in a million shot...bravo!

Perfect moment and balance.  The three images (one on reflection) makes a brilliant triangle of relationship that transcends the mere subject matter.

Good stuff!

Funny moment, precise timing. Excellent stuff!

(Wish you hadn't cropped the sides)

Quite a dynamic shot, impeccably framed. Love the small details, such as the expression on the boy's face, his shadow floating, the little tap below the shadow.

A beautiful portrait. Excellent black and white tonality as well.

Wonderful image, rich in light and shadow, like a long lost memory...

A striking piece no doubt. I was struck by the sheer natural beauty of it.  Very nice contrast and tonality.  At this magnification one does not see signs of digital manufacture of the sky. When one realizes that it is artificial, then the charm wears off.  The grandeur of Yosemite is hard to capture on film. Part of Ansel Adam's charm is that the guy actually trudged there at the right time, with his large format on his back. So to look at Adam's photograph is to feel his interaction with the grand surrounding.  Then of course there is his craftsmanship.  Here, the image is grand too; at least in the puny confines of a few hundred pixels image.  But when one realizes that most of what is attractive in this piece is really virtual, some might call it "fake", then I don't know what remains.  Some will argue that it is no different from the work of a painter's brush.  Perhaps, but then that is a painting, not a photograph. What do we call this construct? There is certain degree of mastery in craftsmanship here too, but we cannot see the accuracy of that in this small piece.  If the function of an image is merely to please then this is successful.