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Different Technologies


Different Technologies
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Copyright: Daniel Kohanski (Wandering_Dan) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 783 W: 101 N: 899] (3233)
Genre: Gens
Média: Couleur
Date de prise de vue: 2007-03-05
Catégories: Vie quotidienne
Appareil photographique: Nikon D70
Exposition: f/14.0, 1/80 secondes
More Photo Info: [view]
Versions: version originale
Date de soumission: 2007-08-30 7:07
Vue: 1257
Points: 30
[Ligne directrice - Note] Note du photographe
We joined a group of people to visit a Bushman clan in Botswana. For 8-9 months of the year, these people still manage to live in the traditional way; the rest of the year, either drought or cold drives them into the towns, where they dress in modern clothing and try to follow modern ways. (The beads are a recent tradition, and the colors have no particular significance; they just like them.) They know they can't keep up their old way of life forever, and there were only very young children with the adults when we were there; the rest were all off in school.

But now, and for the next few years, they are still on the cusp of the modern world, and it is still possible to live with them for a few days and observe a genuine, traditional way of living that is perhaps 40,000 years old.

One tradition involves using fibers from the sisal plant to make rope. (We've seen this in Kenya also.) Here is a Bushman (they call themselves that now) holding up a strand of rope that he has just shown us how to make. One of our group wanted to take a picture of him, and as she did so I saw this scene as a metaphor of the Bushmen's predicament: An ancient technology confronting the latest product of the digital age.

Technical: Very little PP, mainly levels adjustment to brighten the scene a bit. I also used Noiseware at low levels to increase the sharpness.

isabela_sor, eev99, Preetie, mauricet, Paolo, Mirra78, Glint, avishek_khan, kurzan, linask, happypoppeye trouve(nt) cette note utile
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Hello Daniel,
it`s been a funny photo ; both of them show their weapons to each other :P
A well documentary photo about differences that bring closer.
Thanks for sharing
Regards, Ferhat

This is a perfect picture for TE !!!The photo and the note together make a great combination!Thanks
All the best
Isabela

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  • cessy Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2256 W: 99 N: 2341] (13567)
  • [2007-08-30 7:30]

Hallo Daniel,

nice capture of the scene, and excellent notes
tfs, cessy

hello Daniel,

great photo full of contrasts with a great informative note,thank you!
This kind of photos which keep TE soul inside make me wonder about the world more and more and just encourage me : ''Leyla,finish the school immediately,start working and save money and go all around the world with your cam.'' :))

thanks for sharing

leyla :)

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  • Paolo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4704 W: 146 N: 9094] (39995)
  • [2007-08-30 8:49]

Hi Daniel, excellent double portrait of peolpe and cultures, with a so large difference!
good quality and excellent POV.
thanks, ciao

Hi Daniel,
excellent picture for a travel reportage.
Good job.

Hello Daniel,

Fantastic! Great moment captured :)
Nice framing and great details. Very impressive :)
TFS,
Izabela

Hello Daniel
great moment
funny shot
beautiful colours and compo
TFS
regards
Ozhan

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  • Glint Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 673 W: 6 N: 390] (1955)
  • [2007-08-30 13:53]

hello Daniel,
both charming and poignant. Good note too.
regards
Bev

Hi Dan,
The photo itself tells a story and your note is also very useful.
Regards
Avishek

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  • nmess Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 616 W: 81 N: 418] (2267)
  • [2007-09-15 5:41]

I like this catch of the photographer making her catch and think that you probably made the better catch. Being able to be there while this people make the difficult and sometimes troubling transition into the modern world is quite an opportunity and your photo hints at that transition. TFS

Hello Dan,

This photo from last March, with its virtual mirror symmetry, is one of the most compelling shots in your gallery. Of course, the appearance of the individual in the distance makes the image more interesting. One's eyes are immediately drawng to that point.

Since I've always done art (sketching, painting...) I am drawn to street artist at their work. Whenever I see a street artist doing someone portrait, I like to look over their shoulders. In a number of cases, I've commented on photographs on Trekearth, commending the photographer who has included the photographer, the subject, and the artistic creation all in one — photographing from behind the artist.

Incidentally, your photograph of the desert sand dune scene is by my namesake and compatriot, Ertan Atalay. Take a look at his gallery, along with this one, there is another one in his gallery. He has been absent from TE for awhile.

Warm regards

Bulent

This is another very original catch Dan. Almost humorous but really just a good composition of the daily life of a photographer and a bushman. I wonder how many of these situations they go through in a lifetime. Great background, catching the hut, jungle and other lone bushman in the middle of the two opposing subjects involved in their "technologies". Great thinking on this one, thinking outside the box that is, to come away with an original view of life in Botswana.

Nice work
John

Hello Daniel, Nice picture and even more interesting note. I am going to Botswana and visited it already several villages there taking picture of local people, however have not found a bushmen village, where I could spend several days with them. Would you advise me, where should I look fore it. I would certainly do that.
Have to look at all your pictures - like your style. Currently I am in Japan and the Internet access is for travellers horrible. So once I return back home in a week.
Regards, Michael

Hello Daniel. There are many interesting photos in your gallery. I decided for this, because it states also something over photographers and the photography. The photo is originally, beautiful and worth seeing. It brings the thing on the point. Also the informative text pleases me very well. Best regards, Wolfgang.

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