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Burak Ercümen 2 months ago

beautiful silhouettes and processing!

MAURIZIO COSCI 1 year ago

i like the game lights and shadows, it's an excellent shot
good

Marcin Br 2 years ago

Beatiful photo...

jalili 2 years ago

Really a very beautiful work and a big idea .
And I am thank you so much for comment and a really support .
Regards .

johnpainter Thanks, and you are quite welcome!

jalili My regards .............

Wesley Law 2 years ago

Really strong image John, I also enjoyed your elaborations, and Andres'

johnpainter Thanks, Wesley, I'm glad you enjoy it!

ghazale ghazanfari 2 years ago

i love it!
very meaningful

Cheron 2 years ago

+++ !!

Risquillo 2 years ago

Excellent work........
regards!

Micha Rainer Pali 2 years ago

nice shot!

Ben Goossens 2 years ago

The other one was good... this one is superb:-))

johnpainter Thanks, Ben--fortune smiled on me for 1/1250th of a second!

Ben Goossens I know John how difficult it is to make an impact full one shot image... luck is needed : to be there at the wright moment, place with the wright light conditions and here you did it:-)))))))

meleagris 2 years ago

Awesome John!!! Huge congratulations to you!!!! I love it!

johnpainter Thank you!

Andre du Plessis 2 years ago

John - this is simply superb. I do not know how you arranged this, and your title does not give me any closer clues, but for me personally this is most touching. I see a 'want' here, a sense of sadness and nostalgia, and for me this is sooo effective in transmitting that emotion. Well done, thoroughly enjoyed, and admired.

johnpainter Thank you, Andre, that means a lot to me! See my response to John Taylor for the setup. This was just an instant in time that I was fortunate enough to capture.

Andre du Plessis You know - walking down Cheapside today on the way to Bank tube station this exact thought crossed my mind. They are doing a lot of new building in that area, and I tried my duplessisXThomasHoltkoeterXKPKXSven cap on and imagined how one can capture an image of those new structures, however, introducing a human component, or I guess, some achitectural 'juxtaposition'. In the same breath - not long ago I took a candid at a fair which turned out quite effectively once I edited it. Very much the same as you described down there to John T - it is possible to do magic, even if the moment was spontanious, and 'unplanned'. B&W gives one that extra latitude to make an image 'work', and from my own experience, the energy transmitted afterwards do not always sync with what transpired during the process of capture. In that respect photography is special, and often our work surpises us - but only 'afterwards'. Your image has a very telling and tangible energy that I fully relate to, and feel - and hat's off to you for constructing this from a spontanious moment, maybe unplanned, but oh so effective. I guess that the moral of the story remains that if you want to do pictures - simply go out there and do it. That jewel will come - as you have proved here.

Andre du Plessis I thought that I was finished, but I still want to say how I read this image. I see the outstretched and inviting hand towards the little girl. Yet her face is turned away from this invitation, and she is looking at the two people ( so effectively portrayed - silhouette, but quite ) - and in her mind she is thinking that 'if only'. Inside she is sad. She looks at those two people and is making up her own fantasy. There is that depth in this - three levels - each warranting acknowledgement and eligible to be noted, yet the middle layer (the featureless girl) harbours so much of the attention. I simply love what you have done here and now I shall shut up:)
Oh, and just one more thing:) The baloon seperates the private energy between the telling bit of this story - the hand and the girl, and then the fantasy is behind the screen. Real, unreal, who know. neither does the girl, but your image captures this reality played out against the 'what might be better, yet only in suggestion' so well.
Now I shall really shut up!

johnpainter Ha! No need to shut up. I quite agree with you on your interpretation and I'm also in full agreement that it is best to just go out there and do it. While I admire photographers who can plan their shots extensively and see it all in advance in their minds, my own favored method is to just immerse myself and my camera in a place and time and let intuition and instinct take over. My planned shots are usually disasters! Only when I just surrender to the moment and shoot what my eyes and my brain happen to register do I find any success.

Andre du Plessis I am with you in that. Glad that I am not the only fool:) I sometimes look at the PF and realise how shots have been 'planned' - chroregraphed, if you wish. But yours had none of that 'in-your-face' stuff, and that is why it remains for me so enjoyable.

Frederick Lim Cung Wei 2 years ago

Great....

John Taylor 2 years ago

Oh this series is getting more interesting by the day, Both this and the last are great moments. The light and composition couldn't be better

johnpainter Thanks! This was a spur of the moment capture. We were inside a hot air balloon inflated on the ground for the amusement of the children. A mother beckoned to this girl with her arms and the shadows of two people outside the balloon came between them. I just snapped the shutter out of instinct.

RanvirDeb 2 years ago

beautiful! lovely play of light and shadows.