Explanation of the theme: Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary by Cheri Lucas on September 21, 2012: “Solitary. I love capturing a person in a quiet and often unexpected moment. These kinds of images can be reflective, mysterious, or even sad, conjuring strong emotions and stirring up stories in my head. I snapped this photograph
in the grand Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey. That afternoon, it was very busy and crowded inside, but I turned a corner at one point and walked into the empty, bright, airy space pictured above. I experienced a few moments of silence as I watched a woman walk to the end of the room. We were strangers—yet alone, together. A solitary moment, frozen with my lens.”
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i wrote four lines for the photo above (shot by Myra, a man trekking a hilltop on his way to the Griffith Observatory) because more people were liking my photo-post in the otherblog http://www.chattel.wordpress.com , supposedly an inactive blog — maybe because i wrote three lines for it; based on the word “sliver” — a man was balancing himself on a bamboo raft that looked like a sliver because of the way it was photographed by Myra). here it is, click link below:
Everyday, Teng, Jane, Myra, Gigi, Rey, work 36 hours straight helping heal the sick. After hospital rounds, they have one or two days to rest. On this sunny day, instead of using their precious day-off to rest, Teng, Jane, and Myra drove to a dusty, makeshift medical tent by a roadside in Rosarito, Mexico for an organized medical mission. Here’s Teng in a preliminary medical interview exam of a mother and her brood in preparation for diagnostics. That’s their work — and the best of our generation. (photo by Myra Lambino)
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Explanation of the theme: From Cheri Lucas of WordPress: “Everyday Life. This challenge is all about people and the things they do every day: working, eating, drinking, chatting, dreaming, walking, exercising, or any of those things we do all the time without really thinking about it xxx”
Explanation of technique: Tip from WordPress guest host Jon Sanwell (“an English language teacher with a camera. Originally from Tunbridge Wells in the UK, he is now living in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in Vietnam”) : “xxx I love taking close head-and-shoulders portraits, but they don’t necessarily show everyday life, xxx (but) (a) wider angle, from up close, shows us something about what the subject is doing, and puts the viewer right into the frame.” See the Daily Post at WordPress:
Everyday, Teng, Jane, Myra, Gigi, Rey, work 36 hours straight helping heal the sick. After hospital rounds, they have one or two days to rest. On this sunny day, instead of using their precious day-off to rest, Teng, Jane, and Myra drove to a dusty, makeshift medical tent by a roadside in Rosarito, Mexico for an organized medical mission. Here’s Teng in a preliminary medical interview exam of a mother and her brood in preparation for diagnostics. That’s their work — and the best of our generation. (photo by Myra Lambino)