still_waiting_for_the_one_ii, a photo from La Habana, Ouest

Photographer's Note

Walking as a tourist in the big Havana being amazed about this beautiful city.
I noticed this older woman, I think she was waiting for the bus but there was something about her something about her was not in place
It looked like she was in a different time or that time stopped around her
I had to take her picture

I added the sepia effect to make it look like an old picture
Hoop you like it
Ishai

marthival, hispic, pridel, Luko, michel_r trouve(nt) cette note utile

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marthival (257) 2004-12-08 15:30

Very touching photograhp. The sepia mode is quite appropriate. I like her centered because I can feel even more her lonelyness. You are now into "my favorite".

jrzufferey (7305) 2004-12-08 15:37

J'aime bien ton image et le choix du sépia, je trouve un peu dommage d'avoir centré le modèle. Amicalement/jr

vapours (8264) 2004-12-08 15:53

Brilliant picture. It looks as if its a screenshot from a 1940s movie. Congrats.

pridel (233) 2004-12-08 17:28

Ishai
funny to have got the same theme in the same moment !
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I like much this old lady which doesn't seem to be of XXIe century. she still waits. environment is well restored.
congrats
Pascal
i made a ws; just for fun

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Belumpi (306) 2004-12-09 2:50

very moving picture....but its not just lonelyness....there is something eerie about this picture

Luko (14000) 2004-12-09 5:50

What a character! she could be dressed for a theater play or perhaps is she really waiting for Fidel to leave with the same dress she wore on that night of the new year's eve back in the fifties... she well could be a character from the movie "Havana".
Both title and sepia addition are clever features.

A bit softy on the face but the bokeh in the background is quite nice.

Homerhomer (4080) 2004-12-09 8:56

Great title to a great photo, indeed she looks like she is from another era and waiting for the loved one. Great mood to this photo, a bit soft and you may consider touching up that white spot on the right just behind her.
Peter

michel_r (1118) 2004-12-15 21:50

I was not very found of the framing initially but find it eventually fits very well. She's waiting for very long (seems from the old dressing plus the clever postprocessing you applied that it has been years), lost in her thoughts and so eventually everyone has disappeared. So she's left all alone (and this is well conveyed then by the framing). A very nice mood to this picture. Thank you, michel.

scalerman (26900) 2005-01-11 14:45

strange and evocative picture - I think your use of sepia was right one here. wouldn't change anything with this pic. bravo.