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Joachim Zettl · Jun 17, 2015

But it's the ear!! ;-) Nice shot!

macfred · Jun 17, 2015

Trask · Jun 17, 2015

If it weren't for the car passing, I'd think you shot this in 1955. Nicely done.

jovo · Jun 17, 2015

You captured a wonderful moment...I like this a lot. Were it mine, though, I'd straighten the verticals a bit, and crop out that car...ugh...very distracting, and the resulting square would hold the eye on the people.

blansky · Jun 17, 2015

Very nice slice of life street shot. I realize this wasn't really titled, but in so many titles and descriptions, I see, they are all from the outside of the picture. A description. And I find them too clinical. Too travelog, too unemotional. I think if we're going to title pictures, they should be from inside the picture. What are the elements saying to each other. Not what we are seeing but what they are feeling. In this picture the subject of the picture is the child. The "odd man out". The object of everyone in the picture's concern. The one wearing the different clothes. The smallest one. So perhaps the title should be what the subject is doing or feeling. Perhaps, "the long walk home" or "I'm coming, I'm coming"...or something like that.

pentaxuser · Jun 17, 2015

Trask said:
If it weren't for the car passing, I'd think you shot this in 1955. Nicely done.

This was my first thought as well. A family group from a time long forgotten

pentaxuser · Jun 17, 2015

Joachim Zettl said:
But it's the ear!! ;-) Nice shot!

Well spotted and the mother looks as if she approves of the treatment as well. :sad:

Turn the clock forward 15 years and think of the "Lizzie Borden poem. It's time they did

Saganich · Jun 17, 2015

Thanks for the comments. I like the crop idea.

Saganich · Jun 18, 2015

blansky said:
Very nice slice of life street shot. I realize this wasn't really titled, but in so many titles and descriptions, I see, they are all from the outside of the picture. A description. And I find them too clinical. Too travelog, too unemotional. I think if we're going to title pictures, they should be from inside the picture. What are the elements saying to each other. Not what we are seeing but what they are feeling. In this picture the subject of the picture is the child. The "odd man out". The object of everyone in the picture's concern. The one wearing the different clothes. The smallest one. So perhaps the title should be what the subject is doing or feeling. Perhaps, "the long walk home" or "I'm coming, I'm coming"...or something like that.

Any title I may think of immediately seems wrong so I just skip it usually...In this case the family, sans the older males, are on their way home from Prayer House probably, but my intention is to photograph some family culture as witnessed street wise. In this scene the eldest daughter hangs back with the mother to care for the youngest while her younger siblings run and play ahead (up the street in the image) This shows how early the daughters are brought into child rearing, a job they will soon-enough be managing on their own with their own children. And Yes I agree the subject in the image is the youngest.

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