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Ian Damerell 10 months ago

Lovely story here. A great snapshot on rural life. Love the processing.

Ian Damerell 10 months ago

Lovely story here. A great snapshot on rural life. Love the processing too.

Eric Frey 1 year ago

quelle atmosphère !

David Kakalashvili 2 years ago

I like this photo,bravo

Jain R. 2 years ago

wow...almost indescribable...i love the dead tree, it just tops everything off

psychodaddy 2 years ago

Amazing!!!!!!

dorothée rapp 3 years ago

love this! great sense of space and "watching" the scene

Eduard 3 years ago

Your pictures are absolutely powerful !

Soeren Friberg 3 years ago

Fantastic! I like the mood here.
Thanks for sharing.
With regards Soeren

ebrahim saeedi 3 years ago

I like this photo,bravo

Femke de Wit 3 years ago

Very good picture of a hard working and poor life. gr Femke

Jose Luis Cunha 3 years ago

nice

Thomas Holtkoetter 3 years ago

You can feel very strongly the atmoshere here - a living picture.
First I thought the location is somewhere in eastern Europe and was surprised that it is coming from RSA.

Ricky Siegers 3 years ago

My goodness Andre...what a story you bring here....I like it.

toothpilot 3 years ago

Terrific grain shot Andre.
Works really well.
Hendrik

Aleksander Smid 3 years ago

Grain is exelent.. They respect water much more than we do.. That's a fact.

BR

Judy W 3 years ago

I love everything about this. Particularly the grain. Tones are perfect.

Repro 3 years ago

A wonderful image...very impressive
Best regards Repro

Piet Flour 3 years ago

another very personal image telling the story of our world ... this time in a very different presentation, but tastefully balanced as always.
Piet

enzo penna 3 years ago

your compositions are always studied in detail ....... you have a narrative skills important ..... but I think I told you ..... I can not help but repeat the comments .... Ciao Andrè

Marek Wilczura 3 years ago

thanks to the w/a lens the scene is very dynamic, great pp added a touch of something special
thanks for sharing!

Colmar Wocke 3 years ago

Andre,

Congratulations on your "Water Man" picture - this looks so, so much like pushed high-iso film, with all the mood and "roughness" that it brings - befitting the story.

Colmar

Phyllis Clarke 3 years ago

Interesting for me to see this here Andre, as only a week or so ago..there was a big story on the news (radio) about "the Water Man"...and how people buy their water from a person..I found the program interesting..and now seeing this picture it all comes together! :) Bravo..excellent capture as usual..and important to realize for those of us who have such easy access to water. My best, Phyllis

Andre du Plessis That is really interesting Phyllis, and quite coincidental that this was aired only last week. Thanks for this, Andre

Jorge Goncalves Silva 3 years ago

I scene with the great mood of old photo films. Good job Andre

Andre du Plessis Thank you Jorge:)

Shafagh Kalhor 3 years ago

I like the grains
excellent
great one in b/w

Andre du Plessis Much appreciated, and glad that you enjoy the textures.

Andrei Baciu 3 years ago

very dynamic and atmospherical photo, Andre. :)

Andre du Plessis Thank you Andrei.

Semir 3 years ago

great one Andre..

Best regards Semir

Andre du Plessis Thanks Semir:)

Mihnea Turcu 3 years ago

how well you saw it again...:)

Andre du Plessis Thanks Mihnea

Luc 3 years ago

Perfect Andre, i really love the grain!!!!

Andre du Plessis Thank you for the feedback Luc:)

mm767cap 3 years ago

Lovely Andre. The grain here was an excellent choice to accent the grit of difficult living conditions. Love the stark elements of the tree and the structures. Really masterful.

Andre du Plessis You sing my song - thanks!

Codrin Lupei 3 years ago

A wonderful image, Andre, really beautiful work you've done here! Great, love it! I was sure that the D700 is an almost noisefree camera...:))) Love the grain!

Andre du Plessis And you thought that I created the noise!. No ways! When you travel south of the equator Nikon becomes Nokin, so all the superflous references to noise capability is reversed, and it changes into a Holga.

Codrin Lupei :) Well, it seems that I really have to go there, I've always wanted a Holga, but being much too lazy to start now developing and printing by myself...this would be the solution, the digital Holga, the Nokin! Cool!

Martin Gremm 3 years ago

Powerful atmosphere! The title removes some of the mystery that makes this shot so intriguing.

Andre du Plessis Thanks for that Martin - as you will see I removed the refernce below the title, however, I kept the top title.

storytaylor 3 years ago

brilliant work once again Andre.

Andre du Plessis If you like it I am very pleased, for I see you as a Master Of Mood

Zivko Risteski 3 years ago

fantastic shot, and story

Andre du Plessis Thanks Zivko

Al Seyedain 3 years ago

Excellent composition. I like the grain here.
Brilliant
al

Andre du Plessis To be honest I was a bit worried about that Al, but thought that the message of necessity trounced here, and that a more stark image will be more effective in translating that.

Frank Michael Helferich 3 years ago

Hi Andre,

for me this fine picture lies on the boundary between art and journalism.

LandyMan

Andre du Plessis I think that I know what you mean LandyMan. I feel such a fraud, for I live in London. I eat and enjoy London, and travel to European cities where I eat and dine and wine. Yet, every time I go home and subject myself to capture the people that I care about, and listen to and learn from, it moves me, and I gain new energy and a new determination, and I have the opportunity to share a bit of me with them. Then I return to show you and the others and tell you about them, and I am always so happy when I get to publish them. But before too long, I wine and dine again. Just to repeat the cycle.
So yes, I wish that I was a photojournalist. For although I help many people in medicine, I think that I could have done more through photography, and writing about that. Never to late to change, but right now it will be impossible for me. I appreciate your comment.

Helmut Schadt 3 years ago

Very, very impressive photograph Andre!

Andre du Plessis Thank you Helmut

Morkel Erasmus 3 years ago

very 'rural' and conveys the message well Andre!

Andre du Plessis Thanks Morkel. This cottage is about 3km CT side of Plett, and was one of my 1st prints. Used to stand at the roadside and picture this from about 200m away. So did everyone that I know. Still there, but the horison is slowly being swallowed up by the sprawling KwaNokuthula. So many years later, this time in the digital age, I walked over and met these people. This was when I was passed by this son of the family with his drum of water. This was my 1st visit, and given the late hour of the day, I only really met them, had a quichk chat and took a few pics before I had to leave. However, I shall visit them again, and then maybe there will be more time to do what I like to do.