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Carlos Alberto 1 year ago

Vidas duras... grande imagem!

Ramin jalali moghaddam 1 year ago

Hi...this photo reminds me the movie Cow...once was a rural man who his being and life was up to his cows...one of his cows died a day & he killed himself...
very very good work of your art my friend...

Philip Orgeron 2 years ago

One of my favorites in your published photos. Such rich color and inviting subject matter.

Luis Marinho 2 years ago

Óptima, Rui! Parabéns e um abraço, Luis.

Rui Pires Obrigado, Luis :)

Jorge Goncalves Silva 2 years ago

Mais uma das tuas 'belezas' Rui, que deu algumas discussões nos nossos sites do 'burgo' mas mereceu estar nesta montra de excelência. Parabéns.

Rui Pires Nos nossos sites do "burgo", Jorge, perde-se muito tempo com banalidades e disparates, depois faz-se pouca fotografia :)

Abraço ;)

Jorge Goncalves Silva Concordo contigo Rui !!

Monique 2 years ago

this is what i love in photos!
a true story of a man.
perfect work Rui--my congratulations.
M.

Rui Pires Thank you, Monique. It´s a sad story :(

Peter Kemp 2 years ago

wonderful photo... love th colors and the expression on the mam's face and the devotion expressed for his cows.. great capture

Rui Pires Thank you, Peter :)

Sven Fennema 2 years ago

Hoped to see this published, wonderful scene, good composition

Rui Pires Thanks you, Sven :)

kregon 2 years ago

Very well composed.
Love the image and the story.
regards, egon

Rui Pires Thank you, Kregon !

Alex OBrien 2 years ago

That look of indifference, excellent shot Rui, love it!
But...... colour? ;)

Rui Pires Yes, my friend, in color. 2 reasons, i do not like to convert from digital do B&W, and i think this color tones do not "fit" in B&W. Please save it in your disk and try to convert. I have some photos in B&W film taked after and before this one, and i thing are not good. Thanks Mr. OBrien :)

Alex OBrien Just joking Rui, merely surprised to see a colour shot in your gallery. :)
I agree, a normal bw conversion does not really work. With a lot of Photoshop it can look OK, but I don't really like that style of photography. Nicer in colour! ;)

Rui Pires You are right ! :) I´m essencialy a B&W photographer in some kind of photography, like my "rural moments" project, but i have millions of color photos also :)

Alex OBrien Rui, final question I promise, if you intend on shooting a scene in black and white on digital camera, will you set it to b&w?

Rui Pires Never, Alex. Never use BW mode of your camera, because you can do a bether job with your edition software, your PC and you have much more brains then your camera processor. If your camera have RAW mode, and in RAW mode you can use BW, because you can see in LCD imediatly the result in BW, but your RAW file is in color, and you can process it in your photoshop with much bether results. The JPEG BW mode in all cameras is crap :)

Alex OBrien Thanks Rui, I would never use it, just asking if you did, but maybe just for the challenge of seeing in black and white. I would like to try film photography one day I just thought it would be a similar(ish) experience. :)

Rui Pires I can see in black and white, Alex. Don´t need camera. Learn to do the same and you will make great BW photos ;)

Vlad Dumitrescu 2 years ago

Beautiful, Rui. I love the light and the composition with the second cow watching from behind. :o)
I like Francisco from the image you posted 2 months ago. Sad story he has...
:o(

Rui Pires Yes Vlad, i have more photos of Francisco in my gallery. It´s real a sad story :(
Thank you, my friend !

King Douglas 2 years ago

Love this, Rui!

Rui Pires Thank you, King. Very nice for me you like it ! :)

Dragan M. Babovic 2 years ago

2 fellows in their job. You made excellent shot about their talking.

Rui Pires Dragan, this men didn´t talk neither can listen since he was born ... I know when we look to photo give us ideia he is talking with cow, but he is only smiling :) thanks very much for your coment :)

Dragan M. Babovic Thank you. I had on my mind this motto you wrote "I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg" So, I saw this in this picture as a good example.

Rui Pires And you saw very well. Me and a friend have spended some afternons with this poor man, sitting in mountains with his cows, just smiling each other, and comunicating just with hands and expressions. Not good at all know some of this days that at some time ago, his family sell all his cows and poor man is very sad now :(

Codrin Lupei 2 years ago

An excellent image, Rui, very good work, like it a lot!

Rui Pires Thank you very much, Codrin :) Read my reply to Dragan ... is part of this photo "story" :)

Slavomir M. 2 years ago

excellent work

Rui Pires Thank you, Slavomir :)

Lars Klottrup 2 years ago

Good scenery, POV and compo! :-)

Rui Pires Thank you very much, Lars :)

A. Zahron 2 years ago

very - very like this object!

Rui Pires Thank you :)

jaharris1001 2 years ago

you continue to come up with some amazing images from a world so far away from what Im use to seeing in the States, very nice stuff indeed and thanks for sharing these with us !!

Rui Pires Thank you very much, Harris :)

Raul Alexandre 2 years ago

simplesmente BRILHANTE!

Rui Pires Obrigado, Raul. Abraço

Jose Luis Cunha 2 years ago

Mais uma grande foto... Nao conhecia era essa lente, da na canon? Abraço

Rui Pires Com adaptador, claro que dá. É uma peça de óptica de colecção e com uma qualidade extraordinária :) Abraço, Zé

Semir 2 years ago

GREAT RUI!

Regards Semir

Rui Pires Thank you, Semir :)

Robert 2 years ago

Excellent Rui!

Robert

Rui Pires Thanks Robert :)

sasson haviv 2 years ago

color:))))) i love the one peeking in the back

Rui Pires "she" is loking to photographer or maybe "she" is jealousy because the old man give some food to her sister :))) Thanks, Sasson

moses stell 2 years ago

great captured!

Rui Pires Thanks Moses :)

Ulrik Hasemann 2 years ago

In colors! But great anyway:-)

Rui Pires Sometimes B&W didn´t "fit". I think this is a example ... thanks, Ulrik :)

Daniel Portal 2 years ago

moving, Rui

Rui Pires Thank you, Daniel :)

Uzay 2 years ago

Great.

Rui Pires Thanks :)

Biliana 2 years ago

oh dear Rui, I saw this beautiful photo in the screening queue, and I was already fascinated by the scene here! and it is so emotive with this old man full of love to his cows! this is a very sad captured moment for me, as I can see how hard it is for him to feed his cows! Thank you for sharing the life of Elder in Portugal! I can see by your photographs that there is no young people around but only Elders are left! sad situation in every countryside in the world! very very sad :(
Thank you

Rui Pires As in other places in world, young people left this places very soon, Biliana. It´s why rural comunitarian places are disapearing, Biliana. Someday, the only option to young people see this moments is in photography. I want to give young people that possibility in future :) Thank you !

Biliana oh, you are so right dear Rui, unfortunately :( but I think that after sometimes, the young will be forced in some way to go and cultivate the land, otherwise we are going to starve :( well, this is a beautiful way to immortalize this past ... Thank you Rui ;)

Rui Pires In fact, i read some tesis where some respected sociologists defends that in a near future will happen a oposite of the rural exodus, and lot´s of people left big citys. But i´m afraid they don´t know anything about land and rural work ... :)

Biliana Yes dear Rui, I have heard the same thing :) they will learn fast on a hard way ;))))) me too, I am very much tired of my big city so ... lol