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I am not sure I understand the title. And out of curiosity: Is this staged or were you lucky to be at the right time at the right place? I love the red socks! Nice shot!

Wow. Is that Noah's Ark?

I really like the point you are trying to make here. I think photographs can be very powerful when pointing at problems. What's unfortunate about this image is that you have to think too much to get the problem. It doesn't scream POVERTY into your eye. Here is my suggestion for improvement:

1) Crop the image to what's important. Too much stuff around is just confusing, especially if it's sharp like this.

2) More contrast helps in many cases to just make the image... stronger.

3) A trick for this image to make the eye focus more on the poor house: burn (darken) the surroundings in photoshop or any other similar program (try "the gimp" if you don't have photoshop - it's free from the web).

I am attaching what I had in mind.

All of this is of course just my opinion. But I hope it helps... :) And keep shoting images like this one! It's important to remind us how bad life for some of us is.

Not a thing to comment on. A reeeaaallly nice photo. Well done.

Nice! How did you get the smoke?

Nice photo. A little critique: The background is too distracting for me, even though it's blurred. The eye goes for the bright spots in the photo and that's the trunk, not the bird. Maybe you can burn the bright parts a little in photoshop and see if that helps? Otherwise a nice image...

I think I like the image. Nice work with the lighting. Would it be possible to get a photo with a higher resolution? The jpg artefacts (blurred blocks) are really visible and make it hard to appreciate the image...

That's beautiful. I should plan my next vacation there....

I like the image, but as a beer drinking German (though Heineken is Dutch) I cannot approve of the message. Nice image though.

No offence meant, but am I supposed to see something? It's all quite yellow...

Sweet!

This would work much better if it was sharp. It's unfortunate.

Technically I think this is well done and nice image. I am not sure whether it works for me, though. I was utterly confused on what the deeper point of the image was until I read the title. Maybe if there were a few empty bottles in the background? Not sure if that would have made it clearer...

So simple, yet so beautiful. Nice shot!

It's nice, but some oomph is missing. Wouldn't it be great if a student, preferably in cap and gown, would pass by right this moment....?

I miss Boston. Nice picture, Love the colors. Too bad it's blown out white at the right. Maybe use a hard ND grad filter and adjust it to run parallel with the clouds? Nice picture anyway.

I totally dig this.... What is it?

Here is what i had in mind. Something along that line, though it makes the scenery look very dark, so that might not be what you wanted to show when shooting the image...

It's pretty. But what about a little more contrast? Maybe in b/w? Making the clouds more dramatic? It just feels like the point is missing.

Tip: Try to get the main object off-center. If you forgot about it when taking the picture, crop the sides... It makes for a more interesting picture.

what about more contrast in and around the eyes? might make it more interesting.

wow. Well done! Love it.

Wow! I was there last week and didn't get a picture that nice. Out of curiosity, around what time was that picture taken?

I looks like it has been cropped already, but maybe going closer on the birds and putting them off-center would make the picture better. I would crop out the bird on the right ...

Awesome!