Woman with an axe.

• pentaxuser

• Oct 17, 2022

A great shot of someone who appears lost in her own thoughts and has not the slightest inclination you are there and yet you must have stood there with a camera for a few seconds quite closely for a 75mm lens to have captured it

What's the secret of how you do it?

Thanks

pentaxuser

 

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  craigclu

• Oct 17, 2022

She appears to be someone who should be interacted with in a diplomatic manner.... Nice capture!

 

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  Mick Fagan

• Oct 17, 2022

Nice picture, one is drawn to the light coloured axe handle, which to me is the centrepiece of the image.

Speaking of axe handles, that looks like a short handle and possibly a generic handle as it doesn't have an angle right at the end to stop one sliding their hand off.

Says he who has a brace of axes and had an uncle who was an axeman felling trees for a living with his five or so axes.

 

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  SJC1952

• Oct 18, 2022

Thanks for your comments. She was part of a world war two re-enactment ceremony early summer. I was using a waist-level finder. Other people were taking images with their smartphones. I waited until she was isolated to capture her image. I agree the axe handle is an important element of the photograph.

 

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  SJC1952

• Oct 18, 2022

pentaxuser said:

A great shot of someone who appears lost in her own thoughts and has not the slightest inclination you are there and yet you must have stood there with a camera for a few seconds quite closely for a 75mm lens to have captured it

What's the secret of how you do it?

Thanks

pentaxuser

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Thanks pentaxuser. There's no secret. Out on the streets if I see something or someone I want to see in a photograph I press the shutter. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

 

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  macfred

• Oct 18, 2022

Really love this photograph - well done!

 

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  SJC1952

• Oct 19, 2022

macfred said:

Really love this photograph - well done!

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Thanks for your comment macfred.

 

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  Acere

• Oct 20, 2022

I think she's looking down at the poor bastard that she just beheaded on the log behind her.

 

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  SJC1952

• Oct 22, 2022

Thanks Acere. That made me laugh.

 

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  Acere

• Oct 22, 2022

SJC1952 said:

Thanks Acere. That made me laugh.

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I was going to say castrated but would have too painful