laurent_jaussi

I wish you a wondeful Xmax period and the best start in next year...I must admit 2009 was a bit a tough year for me as my job did'nt leave me enough time & energy to contribute more and I was a bit absent lately...I want to thank you for the exchanges and hope to have more time during holidays to catch up with your last postings.

Amal the light is wonderful....a true delight of atmosphere...I guess to capture such lights rays you need both the right light direction and dust in the air...the rickshaw complements the image and give both dynamism and an anchor point...this is all about documentary photo I like as you know...

I like how the backlight is creating volume feel...the sky relfection on top complements it wonderfully...it's interesting for me that you went color on this one after a long serie of BW...I did not try it but I guess in BW this image would loose some (if not most) of it's 3D feel, I mean my eyes go from the foreground to the table (attracted by the colors) and then out to the poles shadows and outside red...

the horizon line is the strongest (graphical) element in any sea image...it's interesting to see the mood created by having it disappear behind the light...it's almost biblic I would say if I was not afraid of such a comment (I am not too much for mixing religion comment to photography)...my mind would like an horizon line so deeply that after a while looking at the picture, I see the line more clearly than when I started looking...

I like this image Jeff because it captures people being, doing something in a very natural way (the camera presence too often does not allow such natural mood), the look is priceless, the shower adds visual dynamism...a wonderful mage. ....

this is a moody image Jeff....the dark tone suits well the end of the day feeling "it's time to go home"...the darkness , the rough road, the wires make it a bit oppressive which participate to the mood.

 

Like David, I see the connection with your dog images with dark mood...I am not sure they were taken at the same place but they convey the same atmosphere.

Thanks Jack, Markku and Jeff....

 

this image belong to the street series I do during summer holidays....one of the few periods I have time on my own to shoot...I am currently starving for not having time at all.

 

Jeff, as you know I like documentary photography with no other pretention then present something interesting and hopefully with some aesthetic (not always I confess as my vein is very limited).

 

I used this discussion about Eggleston in the forum to express (including for me) why I like his photography. Sometimes we like an author without knowing really why. I guess it's just that I am an unsophisticated guy that like straight and direct style without too much overstylisation. But color has always been important for me, actually I could not produce yet a single BW picture on my own that I am satisfied with although I tried several time. It always end up in the things to do list.

Thanks Jack, Fred Koushik and Ruud for your comments and appreciation.

 

Jack it's very interesting what you say. Upon editing I realize that this picture has some calm and quietness altough it's about a moving cylclist. Frankly this is not something I specially intended, I like the red road and just waited for some cars / cyclist to pass by to complement the picture. The rest is circonstance.

 

Fred, I agree with you about the contrast between the immobile cars and buildings that help suggest (by contrast ) movement of the cyclist, the line and road helping as well.

I like this image vey much Jack...it has a lot of tension and visual strenght... I would say a cinema feel to it as it engage the viewer to imagine the continuation of the action...facing the street often feel like facing the blank page (of life or photography) and that's what I like most in this genre...you start walking and the counter is resetted, the page blank for you to observe images materializing in front of you...

what a soft and sweet reflection...the framing blue plays it's supporting role wonderfully...

Clean, ordered, stored, closed....the silence can be frightening.

the jungle of life in the zoo of the city....and the funny thing is that we are all part of this zoo....beside the impeccable compo Gordon pointed out, I particularly like the colors that are very coherent through the image...in fact it participate to the mood this image conveys, everything seems perfectly in place but from their look we feel there is something weird and a bit absurd...as often your title add the final touch...

 

PS: even if my time on PN is currently reduced, like Pnina I am eager to see the new images you fish...

the expression of momentary boredom or little despair really makes it for me Linda...it's so well supported by the tie going further down...still I think your crop amplifies the effect of the tie on the overall mood....I mean the long tie would ideally cry for a vertical rectangle compo and fitted in a square it looks like the boy...a little bit aside and not in the right box and that's what I like so much here....

you have capture life as it appear and that's I like...the secondary roles (little girl and spectators ) are wonderfully adding to the mood...

Thanks Jack, he didn't make it to the boat and better so...the teenagers were having fun around the jetty and I spent time shooting them as they allow me to do so...real fun...

A superb street capture...that's what I like most, when people appear in true expression, small or big but natural...not the mention the tones and direct compo that really suits the subject...for me it does not get more complex to be touching...

the little one with his giant helmet and firm position/attitude bring the dose of burlesque that is wonderful ln this picture...

I am never tired of spontaneous capture of kids attitude and expressions...it feels fresh in the best of sense...

A very interesting documentary image...especially for someone like me that never visited the place...it renders the effervescence of the crowd....your compo choice to give 50/50 to the wall and crownd is reflecting the documentary side you obviously intended...very nice...

Thanks Ruud and Pnina for your comments and support...I have been a bit away from PN those last weeks but I hope to get more time to contribute these days...

Thanks Jeff...this is a repost (from 2007) as I am doing some clean up in my folders.

a man, a rectangle and a sinusoid...this is the kind of symbols that they could have put as a simple message to extra-terrestrial life in the voyager spacecraft, precisely juxtaposed in your image Markku...

the wet pavement nicely reflects the blue that we also find in the top band...the 3 is a bit provocatively placed but it allows to add dynamics by imposing a diagonal reading (as otherwise the image would probably have been a bit flat)...

I like the graphical nature of this compo very much Markku...the visitor addition extends the image even further as it would have been dryer without him...there is a kind of labyrinth feeling...

for some reason that's the camera ton top that initially captured my attention...I recently saw the movie Brazil and this tiny camera on top of this giant building made me think of the movie...the flag movement contrast to the immobile nature of the building...