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The Jolly Monk
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Just before taking this portrait photo of Sang The Monk, he was cleaning the temples floor with a broom. All of a sudden he started kidding with my little girl Nana, who was playing at the temples entrance.
Its a photo I really like, despite its many faults (the people in the bg, the windows, the crop below), particularly because of the interaction between the monk and my daughter the monk with his unexpected jolly behaviour, and Nana - as children often do when shy - frantically studying her own feet until the adult disappears.
I wish you all a nice weekend
exposure time : 1/500 sec
aperture : F/4
photo taken at 09h00 am
Location : Non Seung, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| Camera: | Canon PowerShot A95 |
| Title: | The Jolly Monk |
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| Uploaded: | 3 Feb 2006 - 4:30 AM |
| Tags: | Child, Children, Girl, Kid, Kids, Korat, Monk, Nakhorn ratchasima, Non seung, Portraits / people, Siam, Temple, Thailand |
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Comments
Excellant shot.Works well in B&W.
Nice discription as well ,a derved click.
Outstanding shot and very Thai. I have great respect for the Thai way of life as I spent a year working in Hat Yai.This image captures the core values of Old and young.We in the west could do with some of it!!!!!!
Mike
Another excellent pic Koen, a few bright spots from the suns rays but I find it adds a little to this picture. Love it.
Paul
A great image.. i think a lot of the "faults" are what gives this photo a sense of place.
it might help to do a bit more dodging and burning to lift the monk from the walls, but i love it as an image.
Thanks a lot everyone.
Agree with you Donna. Allthough I did manage to take a few photos (only this one capturing the situation well though), I only had very little time to think about composition and bg. Guess I should have moved a bit to the left, but I tend to get very nervous when photographing, which doesn't improve my thinking. Another problem was that I was still wearing my shoes, and to get a better angle I would have had to enter the temple, for which I had to take my shoes of... opportunity gone by then.
Thanks for commenting
knew full well this was yours as soon as I clapped eyes on the thumb.. excellent..
Phil
Amazing... only now I see that line on the wall, running to the monks head. Can't believe I overlooked that. screams for cloning out :o(
I immediately saw the monk and the little girl - the important bit - only after reading your description did I then look at the "faults". To me, they don't really matter that much. 
Hi Koen just Had a play with your pic and uploaded a modified version.
Paul
Thanks Jill, Tommy, Fred, Mari, Paul.
Paul, that mod looks mighty fine. Thanks for removing that line (made him look like a puppet on a string), but also the removal of the sunspots seems to work better.
Koen - the "flaws" that you mention don't take from the shot at all. You've captured the essence of the moment and it comes across really well in the picture. These types of shot aren't done in a studio and they have to be taken quickly so you're bound to get some "undesirable" compositional of other "flaws". But look at a book of TIME-LIFE images from some of the best photographers of this genre and you'll see that their photos have these "flaws" also. All of that said, you should clone the wire from the monk's head before you file it away. John
Hi Koen glad you liked the mod. As I said earlier I liked the picture as it was, but me, been me, just had to play. I agree with john, In the heat of the moment you just have to catch that shot. With today's technology its really amazing what can be achieved afterwards. The chap walking behind the monk to me is not distracting at all, as all my attention seems to be drawn to the expression on the monks face. And what an expression. When I modified the picture, splitting it into three elements/layers I had in my mind those very high quality silver prints you sometimes see in art galleries, can`t remember what they call them. What I did was to work a little on each element separately, Nana, the monk and the background. I could have darkened the background but instead lightened the monk a little. Think it helped in balancing the picture in my eye, giving it a kind of soft glow.
Paul
Agree with others that the shot stands up well and is not affected by the other elements you describe - excellent!
Dave
a great moment captured!!
i just love the relationship conveyed in this pic.
cheers
steve
This is absolutely wonderful, to me the best of both your earlier quasi still-life social portraiture and your more recent dynamic street action work. This has action, but it also the enormous love of ordinary life that your work breaths. Best regards, Bert
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