Laid to Rest
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Comment by RKT:
This is the sort of thing I love. We see the "things", but the things become something else. I let the shapes and color carry me away for a while, then I wonder all the whys...I'm not terribly set on the orientation of the actual image, I like it tipped up or down perhaps slightly more, but it makes things interesting to have such a versatile photograph. And I swear, touches of pink make everything better in the world. Oh, and that green leaf resting atop the pink jacket...perfection.

Laid to Rest
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Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:
Love the photo, hate the title.

Laid to Rest
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Comment by Melethia:
One wonders what the story is. Seems so very forlorn.

Laid to Rest
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Comment by Marfun:
Oddly interesting.

Laid to Rest
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Comment by GeorgesBogaert:
Was it a setup by you or just a street photo? Anyhow it leaves the viewer watching the scene. A 7 from me

Laid to Rest
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Comment by posthumous:
the Rapture? I'm hanging this in my fantasy art gallery

Under an Indifferent Sun
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Comment by mariuca:
Henri, your indifferent sun is a black sun. Even when you look directly at it you get a shiny ebon reflection. There are no gratuitous gestures, no smiles, no interraction. The people even if in a group are lonere bathed by the sun in a chilly gossamer light. You captured the essence of the drabness of life. Still, the last image that you said you were not sure of is filled with a mysterious hope. The light is of not much importance anylonger. There is a verdant spot where the man is coming to rest under the sign of auspiciousness, for this is the main symbolic meaning of the highly decorative old sign of a swastica.

This is what i thought while perousing your essay several times. For it does need multiple viewing.

Your entire essay is of a precise elegance. You are the quiet observer who tries to be totally detached in order to get a good understanding of the place and its people but you seem to be more and more in tune with both.
An absoute delight to follow you.

Laid to Rest
by insteps

Comment by mariuca:
the title is battling with my reading of this old fashioned image; I see it as part of a still of an Agatha Christie whodunnit

Under an Indifferent Sun
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Comment by daisydavid:
Pingtung City is indeed more beautiful and alluring for your essay. I love how you have used high contrast and the tension between the light and dark to reinforce Pingtung's populous and environs. There is a real sense of time, motion and place in these uncovered secrets. It's is though we have entered the wardrobe to an Eastern version of Narnia. The light may have been your focus but it has uncovered the soul of the city.

Under an Indifferent Sun
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Comment by jmritz:
one of my favorite types of photography is people and places, street life, survival. the morning light is beautiful.