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Life is an alleyway

Candid, not staged.

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Donato Buccella 2 years ago

brilliant!!!

yourpaparazzi 2 years ago

Fabulous shot, one of my favourites of yours

Henry Harder 2 years ago

Everlasting moment!

That girl really has a hard time walk!

dorothée rapp 2 years ago

great moment captured...

MaxHamish 3 years ago

Even after a year, I still love seeing this image....one of the best on the site for me........

msimic 3 years ago

Not that I didn't see this picture, but I got back on it over and over... it's the reason I joined 1x. Splendid work Henri!

superherojesus 3 years ago

life is an alleyway -
you can't quite see what's beyond the corner.

SofiG 3 years ago

super

jojo 3 years ago

Outstanding, looks so sad...jojo

Helmut Schadt 3 years ago

Wonderful and lovely too :-)

Magda Berny 3 years ago

fantastic!!!...

mike tamanawis 3 years ago

This is a wonderful photo. The way she's leaning slightly to the right.. brilliant.

msimic 3 years ago

Fabolous surrealism, killing shot...

Wilfred Berthelsen 3 years ago

This is perfect, absolutely stunning!!

Marcus Björkman 3 years ago

This is aboslutely wonderful!

joan kocak 3 years ago

THis is in one of my albums and in looking at it again, I can't tell you how completely wonderful it is. How you've managed to portray a little girl that can be seen also as an old sad lady...and the lighting...and the writing...oh all so incredible...

Ellen 4 years ago

How beautiful!

Stephan Pechstein 4 years ago

Mood, light and composition are perfect. Congratulation!

Branislav Fabijanic 4 years ago

great capture!

Marta Stoga 4 years ago

i'm speechless..

lupica razvan 4 years ago

beautiful picture!!

regards

Kaveh H. Steppenwolf 4 years ago

This is so good that i better keep silent....

Juha Saransalmi 4 years ago

Very good capture!!

sajad pishdadi 4 years ago

surreal !

Robert 4 years ago

Im glad to see it here.

Greetings Robert

Angela Bacon-Kidwell 4 years ago

This is awesome. From the thumbnail I saw a old lady- what a delight! Great shot.

Richard Ford 4 years ago

I saw this over on Flickr in HCSP. Very good effort to get published in THAT group. Seems to me anything that makes it past the admins there (HCSP) can make it on OE.

HenriAntoine thanks richard. I deleted my account there though because, apart from HCSP and one or two other groups, Flickr is not a good community for critique and commenting among like-minded persons. And the way photos appear over there is really ugly.

Richard Ford True. I also like the OE feature that makes it easy to track conversations, comments and critiques that one is involved in.

I gave up on HCSP as it seems the admins make all their shots go through and there is little rhyme or reason to the other shots that make it. Plus some of the arrogance is intolerable - especially from those folks that banter on about "photographers rights" all the time. Live outside of the west for a change and give me a break! :-s

Hinius has excellent work - but when he opens his mouth and starts yapping about "Tele photo weenies" - I get a headache at the concept of any photographer calling anyone else a weenie. :-

Too much self importance and not enough substance.

HenriAntoine yes, the arrogance is terrible. I once said to one of the screeners on there, in reaction to a photo of his, that he shoud be careful with stalking people. In reply I got a reaction to one of my photos, in another group, that I was not close enough (which may well have been true) and that I should stalk more! aaaahhhhh.

HenriAntoine thinking about it, I think the cruder unedited rough randomn kind of shots you see on HCSP wouldn't stand a chance here. And give and take a few exceptions I think that that is quite justified. There's a slight bias towards freak show is always cool on HCSP.

gerard sexton 4 years ago

hello bert! one of a favorite of mine this has a haunting quality that few images of this genre achieve. its the question small adult or child that resonates for me everytime i see this. stark cold lonely are three other words that i would use. thanks for sending me here (indirectly). i am happy you did even though i see you are not happy & now i see why!

Rosalinde Philippin-Lipscomb 4 years ago

good one !!!

Riccardo Monaco 4 years ago

This is so great!! I love it!

Anna Hurtig 4 years ago

Stunning!

Tommy Strommen 4 years ago

Hey Bert, great choice of first upload. Seems even better now, could be the different screen I have got now, or touch up's from your side or bad memory from my side. This is an absolute favourite from your cataloue. Nice to see you on oe

HenriAntoine Hey Tommy, Koen suggested that I join. Have seen your portfolio on here already, great choice of photos. Will comment later, busy now. Thanks for your kind remarks. I did work on the neg anew so thanks! Bert

Ivar Smith-Nilsen 4 years ago

Excellent, I cant describe this better than John Leech, I get the same message and enjoy it very much.

HenriAntoine Thanks Ivar

John Leech 4 years ago

Some images simply make me smile.

:~)

HenriAntoine Thanks so much John. Bert

Fernand Hick 4 years ago

Superb, let see more... Fernand

umberto verdoliva 4 years ago

I hope to see more photos soon ... this is wonderful.
In addition, I thank you for your comment...you have been very kind...

HenriAntoine thanks umberto, Bert

storytaylor 4 years ago

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Or Sachs 4 years ago

wow! this is a great great catch!

Joël Le Montagner 4 years ago

Well seen!

Claudio Solera 4 years ago

Excellent shot and nice compo.Congrats.Ciao,Claudio.

Giorgio Lorcet 4 years ago

greatshot, really moody. welcome on OE

Jeremy Russell 4 years ago

Great photograph.

A little surreal and a little scary.

Nice work.

HenriAntoine Interestingly, the situation wasn't scarry at all. The girl was walking in front of me, I saw the scene, I took the photo. It's the environment with the mess on the ground, the smell that emanates from the scene (piss!), and the nasty racist writing on the door ("white pride, world wide" -- I discovered it weeks later) that give this its edge. And the bycicle helmet in combination with the dangling gloves give it a cuteness level, of course. The girl is fine, she's a daughter of good friends and this was published with their permission.

Andrea 4 years ago

amazing..

Calisto 4 years ago

great picture to start here. welcome to OE :)

flo 4 years ago

a simple beauty, with a nice frame and light.. Grain of Tri-X add a lot of feeling... bravo

HenriAntoine thanks, yes, expect film grain from me. Apart from the joy of not getting to know how good the photo was immediately, and decide much more in the mind than from the display, it is the main reasons why I like analogue so much. Cheers, Bert

Allan Wallberg 4 years ago

Great mood in this nice shot.

Ian Bramham 4 years ago

Absolutely outstanding image!

Koen Pieters 4 years ago

I know of a Dutch guy who has a photo just like this one.
But I like yours too :-)

Welcome Bert. Great choice for an entry. Those dangling gloves...

HenriAntoine Thanks Koen, I know him too. Thanks for the tip of joining here. This was my first upload, I'm glad I made it. Now let me see if there's more that has the level required! Cheers, Bert