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• falves (1401)
• [2007-03-09 4:34]
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Hi Bert,
This skyscrappers are something, and if I'm not wrong, I've found some like this a few years when I visited Havana. I can't imagine the living conditions inside the vertical favelas.
How was walking around São Paulo with the photo camera? Was it safe?
Take care
Fred

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• jhm (70031)
• [2007-03-09 6:48]

Hoi Bert,

Het fijne aan deze foto zijn zowel de horizontale als de verticale lijnen in de verschillende gebouwen, de mensen onderaan de foto bewijst dat dit wel degelijk een daily life foto is, ook uw WS is vrij aardig Bert, mooi gedaan!

Groeten uit zeer regenachtig (5mm deze morgen) Vlaanderen met een temperatuur van 7.2° Celsius. Prettig weekend ook!
John.

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• jrj (33956)
• [2007-03-09 6:55]

Hi Bert
Good to see some result of the long journey.. A good setting here with interesting details from the big city. Nice crop and use of the vertical format. Hope you enjoyed the stay there (and looking forward for more to come..)

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• carper (56370)
• [2007-03-09 10:53]

hele fraaie view Bert,
uitstekende kwaliteit, goede pov, de details van al die lijnen zijn prachtig, goede contrast tussen oud en nieuw, zeer fraai werk/
groet Jaap.

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• syd1946 (16679)
• [2007-03-09 13:56]

Hi Bert,
You made an excellent composition here including the daily life scene in front with this old truck.But I am amazed more from this impressive big and vertical favelas. Very well seen and interesting my friend,
Have a nice weekend,
Thomas

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• Stepan (27009)
• [2007-03-10 4:02]

Wow !! Impressive background building. Looks like an unhuman world. Very strong and very sad... You were talking about thoughts...
Stéphane

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• nwoehnl (60423)
• [2007-03-10 5:16]

Hi Bert. Good illustration of this urban space, and one more example of how you are able to include architecture into your photography in a way that it adds a graphical and/or rhythmic aspect. A good documentary photo, I think. Have a nice weekend.

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• UlfE (6315)
• [2007-03-10 9:30]

Hi Bert,

I suppose that the tall building is the main is sort of the main subject here., but your inclusion of the wall of smaller buiding the tank lorry and people add both perspective and makes it very vivid. I think you have done an excellent job here. Have a nice week-end!

Cheers,

Ulf

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• john_c (24624)
• [2007-03-11 22:42]

Hi Bert,
Superb use of the vertical format. You have nicely contrasted the cropped portion of building on the right with the incredible highrise, which appears huge, bulking and geometrically imposing. I like the foreground action with the people and HIDRO tank. The clarity of detail and sharpness here is impressive.
John

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• RGatward (19438)
• [2007-03-12 11:35]

Well used backdrop for this daily lifer, well framed, lots of interest.

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• Tue (24146)
• [2007-03-12 13:10]

Hej Bert,
Al die raampjes van de flat geven een prachtig effect hier. De witte lijnen in het gebouw maken een mooi raster. De lijnen op het andere gebouw aan de rechterkant werken ook nog eens mee. Het 'daily life' doet het goed in de voorgrond. Uitstekend werk, goed gezien!
Groeten,
Lars

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• elmec (12184)
• [2007-03-13 14:15]

Hello Bert!
Great composition!
Full of geometrical lines with scene in the dawn plays very well!
Perfect details!
Best regards!

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• alvaraalto (3064)
• [2007-03-16 18:14]

Hallo Bert,
Prachtige foto met twee gezichten. De mooie eentonigheid van de gevel met de blauwe tankwagen als "counterpart".
Hierdoor is een boeiende compositie ontstaan.
groet Rob

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• MiguelP (13382)
• [2007-03-20 15:12]

In fact what you tell in the note could be a great story that together with the photo cause a great effect on me, making me think about what a strange creature human could be, but at the same time felling great about the survival capacity of all of us. I´m back to TE, take care Bert.

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• jackpkn (748)
• [2007-04-03 7:05]
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Interesting point of view of our 'favela vertical'. There is a lot of discussions about this building: some think about demolish it, other ones think about to restore it and use it commercially, but as we change our city mayor, they change their ideas...

I used to pass in from of this building everyday: it was between my work and my university: I used to work in a huge 'square' building of 'Itau Bank', in the same avenue. Maybe you saw it...

Regards!

Jáed.

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• pamastro (7209)
• [2007-04-26 23:46]
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Although abandoned skyscrapers are nothing new to me. We have quite a few in Detroit. Ones of this size and then inhabited as you describe are. And just looking at it it does look like a vertical shanty town. The wear and shoddiness of it all are visible right through it. I think I would have cropped this down to just the two buildings in the background and forgotten about any of the foreground stuff which is distracting. I think you have one like that over on Flickr, actually. Overall though I like that concrete and glass fill the image with only a tiny little piece of greenery popping up bottom center. And no sky is great. It's very dystopian.

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• freechechnya1 (172)
• [2008-01-25 12:57]

Bert, great story and shot, good lighting and control. I think maybe you should return when the water truck is not there if possible. Besides that good conscience thanks for sharing. take care-
ciao.