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• kevinos (6320)
• [2007-05-17 5:52]
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These Chinese statues are popular subjects of tourist photographs. What a pity that you give us no note and no information! They were, as I expect you know, brought from China during the 17th and 18th centuries as ballast, when the rice ships were returning. That is why we get Chinese Taoist gods decorating Buddhist temples. They are purely for decoration. This one probably comes from Wat Po, where they have a lot of them, but they have them at Wat Sutat and Wat Yanowa as well amongst others.

You have composed it nicely blending it with the mass of the bot to the left and leaving the eye to run down the right side. I might have placed him a bit more to the right and made him less central and therefore less obvious. the flag behind is a nice touch of context. It is nicely exposed, except perhaps for the face which is a bit over exposed and thus looks a bit odd. I find the top of the lance, exiting at the top of the frame, a bit distracting (Is it really his lance, or is it a flagpole behind? It is hard to tell.) I would have cut it off completely. It is not as sharp as it should be, but that is only because you did not sharpen it after reduction, I think, because it can be sharpened up easily. All in all it's a nice picture, I think. regards kevin