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BennyV (34748) 2015-09-05 4:53

Hello dear Korkut

Well spotted & well treated. The silhouettes are strong presences. Also the shadow/reflection is really powerful. Amazing how all of them are in such a spot-on position. As if we're looking at ten pictures compiled into one! Great work!

Benny

willperrett (14215) 2015-09-06 2:59

Hello Korkut

Beautiful contre-jour lighting is what makes this photograph work so well. That and the wonderful, random, but perfectly-placed groups of figures. None overlap: serendipity, or did you wait for ages for everyone to get into the perfect location? If so, I'm reminded of the working practice of Cartier-Bresson, whose famous "decisive moment" dictum, so often misunderstood, is really about waiting for the composition to reveal itself in the viewfinder. "Sometimes it happens that you stall, delay, wait for something to happen. Sometimes you have the feeling that here are all the makings of a picture – except for just one thing that seems to be missing. But what one thing? Perhaps someone suddenly walks into your range of view. You follow his progress through the viewfinder. You wait and wait, and then finally you press the button – and you depart with the feeling (though you don’t know why) that you’ve really got something. Later, to substantiate this, you can take a print of this picture, trace it on the geometric figures which come up under analysis, and you’ll observe that, if the shutter was released at the decisive moment, you have instinctively fixed a geometric pattern without which the photograph would have been both formless and lifeless." C-B

He also said “Of course it’s all luck.”

Kind regards

Will