The donkey and the pyramids

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• ribeiroantonio (16366)
• [2006-06-24 4:59]

Very interesting view of the pyramids. Looks like the donkey carries all the history of the local! The colors are superb and the POV excellent. Congratulations.
Antonio

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• jmhullot (0)
• [2006-06-24 5:02]

J'aime beaucoup cette photo qui rend si bien la secheresse ambiante omnipresente. Ce pauvre ane a les oreilles bien basses!

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• dennydalew (5)
• [2006-06-24 5:21]

Really a nice shot! POV is great. ddw

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• linask (2415)
• [2006-06-24 5:22]
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Very interesting composition with donkey in the foreground and the pyramids in the distance. In my opinion this one is better than your previous photo.
The photo would probably be even better if donkey would be in the right side of frame looking more to the center. Now it is looking somewhere to the outside of photo. I have made a quick (and not nice at all) workshop to demonstrate that.

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• Luan (15879)
• [2006-06-24 5:24]
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Le decor de reve et pedro l'ane ;o) (pas mal le jeu de mots) n'en a rien a faire...une image tres bien composée...et 2 hiiii haannnn
pour Jipé
Luan

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• wolf38 (7980)
• [2006-06-24 7:58]

Somehow an animated and nevertheless empty picture. In the distance the pyramids and some humans are to be seen. The donkey in the foreground is lashed and stands there, as if it was forgotten. The midday heat seems it, as if stand still the time. An interesting picture study. Greeting, Wolfgang

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• vincent24 (8992)
• [2006-06-24 8:09]
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Salut Jean pierre,
La chaleur semble ecrasante(la pauvre bête en a les oreilles qui tombes)avec ces brumes de chaleur autour des pyramides,dans le WS on ce demande si la pollution est d'origine locale ou touristique!
le temps est trés lourd ici aussi,ça va craquer ce soir...
bon WE,
vincent

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• Cricri (31139)
• [2006-06-24 13:53]

Bonjour Jean-Pierre,
Belle image sur les Pyramides, quand j'y suis allée il fesait 40 degré, si c'était le cas quand tu es allé, je plein ce pauvre âne, j'espére qu'il n'est pas resté longtemps las-bas, belles couleurs et composition
bonne soirée
cricri

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• Marche (4307)
• [2006-06-24 15:30]
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Bonsoir Jean-Pierre,
J'aime aussi celle-ci, mais cet âne me rend triste, il a l'air si malheureux sur ces détritus.
La photo est superbement composée avec de jolies couleurs, une belle représentation de l'Egypte.
Bon dimanche
Amitiés
Martine

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• PJE (18527)
• [2006-06-24 16:01]

Jean what a wonderful photo you have posted here. I love the background pyramids with the donkey in the foreground. My first impression was for someone to give this poor donkey some water to drink!! He looks awfully thirsty Jean!

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• rbcy1974 (20471)
• [2006-06-24 18:40]

Salut JP,
J'aime bien cette perspective avec l'ane e le petit verdeur a l'une et les pyramides un peu floues derreire
bien vu
A+
Daniel

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• capthaddock (28498)
• [2006-06-24 19:02]

Hello JP - awesome combination, for once it's not a camel, though there is nothing wrong with a camel & pyramid combination, the tired expression of the donkey is evidence of the hardship of his daily life, I don't like the white sky, but that type of sky is uinfortunately a reality in a lot of cities in these ages.

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• veve (4247)
• [2006-06-25 8:17]

Hello Jean Piere!
Great image with this donkey!
Yes,the Keops piramide is one of the seven wonders of the world!
Interesting location!
Regards,
Veronica

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• jemaflor (31876)
• [2006-06-25 16:05]

Salut JP,
Bien vu d'avoir intégré l'âne avec cette vue des pyramides, c'est vrai que l'on verrait peut être pour une composition plus équilibrée l'âne plutôt sur la droite.

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• gilou530 (27143)
• [2006-06-26 14:27]
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salut jacques
trés belle photo aussi de ces pyramides, ici il devait faire chaud a voir en fond la brume, belle netteté et j'aime bien celle ci avec cet ane a l'expression dépité, les oreilles basses, belle image
amitiés
gilbert

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• ArtLook (2324)
• [2006-06-27 3:47]

Hi Jean,
Very interesting composition. I like the sharp details of donkey on the foreground and pyramids in haze on the background. Very nice natural colors. Very good shot, Bravo!
With BEST Regards,
Arthur

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• Paolo (40175)
• [2006-06-27 11:32]

Hi Jean Pierre, another donkey shot!
amazing and funny one with that poor donkey unerd the terrifiant sun of Giza!
excellent the background, one of the must beautiful of the world!
thanks, ciao

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• john_c (24622)
• [2006-06-27 12:45]

Hi Jean Pierre,
A very pleasing and well composed shot. Although there are many shots of the pyramids posted, many of them are too touristy or overly enhanced. This one seems so natural. One can smell the windswept sand and see the face of history here. the donkey is a wonderful secondary subject. I like this shot very much.
John

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• Xalkida (11650)
• [2006-06-27 15:13]

Salut JP

Very nice shot! I like how you place this cute donkey instead of the Pyramids on the background. Excellent depth, great colors. Nice effort.

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• thor68 (5023)
• [2006-06-27 17:39]

superb shot of this great place, jean pierre! :-)
i guess many photos have been taken of these famous pyramids,
but not many were surely so excellently composed as yours.
the poor and tired donkey in the fg is perfect.
it looks awfully hot there as the air seems to be flickering in the bg.
well seen & captured, thor.

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• Ladycat (218)
• [2006-06-28 18:44]

Very nice composition. It's how I imagine Giza pyramids long time ago -- before the tourist buses and KFC across the pyramids.

TFS,
Anna Liza

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• tontonjc (6611)
• [2006-06-29 15:21]

Hello,
une prise inhabituelle des pyramides avec cet âne ... souriant !!
L'angle de prise met bien en valeur ces splendeurs.

Bravo

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• ciec (1079)
• [2006-06-29 15:50]

Je préfère la précédente.
Ici il y a deux sujet, l'ane et les pyramides.
Dans la précédente le sujet est les pyramides et le corbeau est juste un vanat-plan. En plus elle a plus de 'mystère', je trouve. Ce qui est bien plus intéressant.

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• greg64g (17328)
• [2006-07-02 13:38]

Salut JP

Tres sympa cette image, meme l'originale et la place de la mule ne me derange pas, on sent une chaleur incroyable, joli travail en workshop.
Greg

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• arturo (31)
• [2006-07-04 12:07]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

oh well...what has happened to this last of the seven wonders of our Ancient World...your image brought me to a thoughtful reflection...i look a this poor, sweating beast in the foreground, the rubbish around, the hazy horizon almost hiding the approaching shanty town of Cairo...seems like we've put the whole dignity of this place on a stock market...but were those pyramids really built to serve as a funerary complex for some individuals...or is it only a well preserved myth that we're made to believe in...and does it start with a below chapter from Herodotus, fifth century, B.C...cheers, arturo

"...Down to the time when Rhampsinitos was king, they told me there was in Egypt nothing but orderly rule, and Egypt prospered greatly; but after him Cheops became king over them and brought them to every kind of evil: for he shut up all the temples, and having first kept them from sacrifices there, he then bade all the Egyptians work for him. So some were appointed to draw stones from the stone-quarries in the Arabian mountains to the Nile, and others he ordered to receive the stones after they had been carried over the river in boats, and to draw them to those which are called the Libyan mountains; and they worked by a hundred thousand men at a time, for each three months continually. Of this oppression there passed ten years while the causeway was made by which they drew the stones, which causeway they built, and it is a work not much less, as it appears to me, than the pyramid; for the length of it is five furlongs and the breadth ten fathoms and the height, where it is highest, eight fathoms, and it is made of stone smoothed and with figures carved upon it. For this they said, the ten years were spent, and for the underground he caused to be made as sepulchral chambers for himself in an island, having conducted thither a channel from the Nile. For the making of the pyramid itself there passed a period of twenty years; and the pyramid is square, each side measuring eight hundred feet, and the height of it is the same...."

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• xavshot (50522)
• [2006-07-08 5:12]

Bonjour Jean-Pierre
en regardant les deux photos des pyramides que tu as postées coup sur coup, ma préférence revient à celle là car l'âne devient le sujet principal et du coup les pyramides apportent ce superbe décor. En plus les teintes se marient très bien sur l'ensemble de la compo. C'est très beua et très agréable à regarder
Bravo
Xavier

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• Henryk_Bilor (19338)
• [2006-07-08 14:06]

HEllo Jean Pierre
Very nice composition with this little sad animal. I guess he isn`t happy because of staying there in the hot place. I like the pyramids in the background and the blurred horizon, showing how warm is there.
Regards

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• alejandroguzman (4670)
• [2006-07-08 14:18]

Hi Jean Pierre...

It was a long time since I havent visit u :P ...
but as usual, u always w/ great pictures.

I like in this one the perspective of the donkey w/ the pyramids in the background, very well composed.


TFS
hugs and have a nice WE.

Alejandro

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• rozy975 (3041)
• [2006-07-10 9:57]

Cute donkey in front of the Magnificient Pyramids!
Nice composition.
Well done!

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• banyanman (7490)
• [2006-07-15 18:09]

I very much like this composition of the pyramids, Jean Pierre, with your donkey providing an interesting foreground subject. It is so much more 'real' than the usual poster shots (with the rubbish and the dust laden sky) and this composition also seems to convey the true size of the pyramids (I remember being surprised at how small they were when I first saw them - I expected them to be much bigger). I don't have any problem with the donkey in the left hand corner. I can't quite put my finger on the reason why, but when I compare this with the excellent workshop that you prepared (a lot of cloning work!), I like the original better. Cheers . . . David

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• cyrrhus (2804)
• [2008-10-11 22:46]

Bonjour Jean-Pierre,
Je n'ai jamais été en Egypte, mais depuis que j'ai vu dans Google Earth à quel point les pyramides sont proches de la ville. J'imagine que l'endroit n'est pas aussi idyllique qu'on peut le penser. Ton âne à l'air abattu, le smog ambiant et les sachets plastiques font partie de la réalité...il n'y a pas lieu de la cacher... même si nous cherchons tous à faire des images esthétiques malgré tout.
Ton image de ce point de vue est très réussie... même si personnellement j'aurais redressé les oreilles de l'âne (il doit y avoir un outil spécial dans PS.. version beta :-))