Believe it or not I'm still plugging my way through the many photos that I took during our 7 month Asia trip, which scarily enough came to an end over 2 years ago. It's a slow process, picking out the shots worth looking more closely at and then spending the time on them that they deserve all the while trying to avoid seeing what's new on facebook or what else there is to buy on trademe. It is battle enough just keeping my recent efforts up to date so I anticipate things taking some time yet before I can truly say I'm current with nothing in my "to edit" file.
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The above image could have been taken anywhere. It was in fact in a field in rural China but what attracted my to the preview jpeg (and presumable the original scene!) was the frame filling subject matter and the repetition of the stacks. I would like to go back and tweak the composition a little more but will have to make do with learning the lesson that it is best to slow down and be considered, after all a subject such as this is not going to get up and run away.
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Trying to capture a market scene is tricky, I have a whole series of images from traders throughout the trip and very few convey the scene as it was. Getting in close is one trick, it is far too easy to try and show too much in a photo such that everything getting lost and disjointed with just too much going on. Two very different images but based on a similar idea.
Your market photo of the Dogfood shop was quite an eye-opener, particularly when the background was examined. With that shot you were in exactly the right place - can't get it out of my mind and am not thanking you for it, so that shot certainly did its job. And although I love seeing your photos for the beauty of subjects, guess I gotta take the pretty with the ... striking(!) ... as that is reality after all. Keep sending!
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