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Comment by Zigomar:
Great platinum tones.

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Comment by Mephisto:
thanks everyone for the comments. to answer a few questions:

Originally posted by Germaine: On the outside looking in?

nope. from the inside looking out. when i was walking along the road in this gypsy neighborhood with my romanian companion this lady came by, saw my camera and immidiately asked me if i could come with her to her and her husbands home and take some photos, so they could show them to some NGO in france where they wanted to move soon. her husband had some very bad illness on his leg which she wanted me to take photos of as well.

what held their attention in that moment i don't remember. the mood was rather depressing and sad due to their very poor situation so this must have been a rare moment of joy and laughter...perhaps my romanian pal made a joke that everybody except me understood; probably on my expense as well...;-D

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Comment by Mephisto:

Originally posted by Zigomar: Reflected light?

nah. plain and simple over-the-top processing...;-)

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Comment by Giorgio:
So.... who is the president of Germany?!

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Comment by tnun:
The lighting and the wonderful structure of the woman's face. Compelling diagonals. And, as Iraklis said, the tiny hand which indicates an extended diagonal vector. (That is a classic p&s camera).

Streets scenes, Krakow
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Comment by Zigomar:
Yup, great composition.

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Comment by Zigomar:
Cool frame.

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Comment by Zigomar:
Great portrait, the so called 'smuggling bag' adds a lot.

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Comment by salmiakki:
Talk about another time/another place. This could have been taken any time over the last 60 years (well apart from the cars but..)

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Comment by salmiakki:
Markets are such a great place to hang around. This is really well done.