14 January 2010

Flyinggina · January 15, 2010

##3 and the last one are heart breakers. Made more so by the context. Excellent, imho.

Good possibilities for the current Challenge.

Va

bdcolen · January 15, 2010

rutt wrote:

Great job, Rutt! Definitely #2, maybe three. Three would be helped with a caption and a crop, eliminating the figure on the left, coming down on the rightside of the camera man.

rutt · January 15, 2010

bdcolen wrote:

Great job, Rutt! Definitely #2, maybe three. Three would be helped with a caption and a crop, eliminating the figure on the left, coming down on the rightside of the camera man.

Is your numbering right, B.D.? I'm not seeing a figure on the left or camera man in #3.

Why not use the thumbs to refer to the pictures, there's no ambiguity? It's pretty easy, just use "Th" instead of "XL" or "L" in the URL.

damonff · January 15, 2010

1
I love #1.

Richard · January 15, 2010

Great set, Rutt.

bdcolen · January 15, 2010

rutt wrote:

Is your numbering right, B.D.? I'm not seeing a figure on the left or camera man in #3.

Why not use the thumbs to refer to the pictures, there's no ambiguity? It's pretty easy, just use "Th" instead of "XL" or "L" in the URL.

#5 - With the t.v. cameraman

rutt · January 15, 2010

The caption for the last last three is:

After days of worry, a family reconnects with a member in Haiti.

Flyinggina · January 15, 2010

Your photos tell the story eloquently, but thank you for the affirmation that the last three captured a happy moment. The human pain and suffering as a result of the earthquake are beyond comprehension. Photographs truly speak louder than words at times like this.

Va

rainbow · January 16, 2010

Thank you for sharing this set. Wonderful sense of moment.

ian408 · January 16, 2010

Great set. #2 does it for me.

TomCollins · January 16, 2010

These photographs really bring the feeling home to me. You've done truly great photography here and I admire your courage to photograph these folks in this terrible time of despair. #'s 3, 5 and 7 feel like life happening before my very eyes.

sunflowerstudio · January 17, 2010

strong
I like #3 or #6 best for the challenge. They may need captions, but make immediate sense with a simple caption and are both powerful pictures.

I like the waving off of the photographers in #6, because I think that's a statement on PJ, that the photographers are not invisible. The images are important and vital because they make everyone who wasn't there think, but they're also intrusive, especially in moments of distress (or joy). A caption might help tell this "story" (but, I guess, only if that's a story the photographer wants to tell).

rutt · January 17, 2010

The waving in the last three wasn't waving off the photographers, it was letting everyone know that they had gotten through to their family in Haiti. The woman in #6 was crying for joy and saying "Merci!" over and over.

This was an amazingly photographer-friendly scene. The people were giving interviews to the local news crews and compared to them, I was small potatoes.

I suppose the people had bigger things to worry about than photographers.

And, yes, I personally think #3 is head and shoulders better than the rest as a standalone image with the caption: At the Haitian Crisis and Relief Center, Boston 14 Januarly 2010.

TomCollins · January 17, 2010

wrong receipient

sunflowerstudio wrote:

I like #3 or #6 best for the challenge. They may need captions, but make immediate sense with a simple caption and are both powerful pictures.

I like the waving off of the photographers in #6, because I think that's a statement on PJ, that the photographers are not invisible. The images are important and vital because they make everyone who wasn't there think, but they're also intrusive, especially in moments of distress (or joy). A caption might help tell this "story" (but, I guess, only if that's a story the photographer wants to tell).

:DHi sunflower and Rutt,
I'm not sure how but somehow your replies are coming to me.

rutt · January 17, 2010

TomCollins wrote:

:DHi sunflower and Rutt,
I'm not sure how but somehow your replies are coming to me.

By what medium? And is it a good thing?

TomCollins · January 17, 2010

wrong receipient

rutt wrote:

The waving in the last three wasn't waving off the photographers, it was letting everyone know that they had gotten through to their family in Haiti. The woman in #6 was crying for joy and saying "Merci!" over and over.

This was an amazingly photographer-friendly scene. The people were giving interviews to the local news crews and compared to them, I was small potatoes.

I suppose the people had bigger things to worry about than photographers.

And, yes, I personally think #3 is head and shoulders better than the rest as a standalone image with the caption: At the Haitian Crisis and Relief Center, Boston 14 Januarly 2010.

Hi sunflower and Rutt,
I'm not sure how but somehow your replies are coming to me.:D

TomCollins · January 17, 2010

by email

rutt wrote:

By what medium? And is it a good thing?

It's a little confusing to be getting emails regarding a post I didn't submit. I don't mind being in the loop of the thread, but the post(s) that sunflower responded to was yours, the response you gave to sunflowers post was to me also. So if sunflower was waiting to hear from you and was doing so expecting the dgrin.com profile to send her an email saying that you responded to her/him, they wouldn't get it...because I did. Does that make sense?

Richard · January 17, 2010

TomCollins wrote:

Hi sunflower and Rutt,
I'm not sure how but somehow your replies are coming to me.:D

Hi Tom,

Your profile shows that you are set to automatically subscribe to any thread you post in and that you wish to receive email notification of new posts in those threads. You can change these settings in You->Options.

There is no way to only get notification for replies to your specific comments.

TomCollins · January 17, 2010

Richard wrote:

Hi Tom,

Your profile shows that you are set to automatically subscribe to any thread you post in and that you wish to receive email notification of new posts in those threads. You can change these settings in You->Options.

There is no way to only get notification for replies to your specific comments.

O.K. I get it. Thanks.

sunflowerstudio · January 17, 2010

That's interesting -- I really read the body language as waving away the cameras. Suggests perhaps my bias rather than the photographer (or a difference in body language).

In that context, I think I like #3 the best.

rutt wrote:

The waving in the last three wasn't waving off the photographers, it was letting everyone know that they had gotten through to their family in Haiti. The woman in #6 was crying for joy and saying "Merci!" over and over.

This was an amazingly photographer-friendly scene. The people were giving interviews to the local news crews and compared to them, I was small potatoes.

I suppose the people had bigger things to worry about than photographers.

And, yes, I personally think #3 is head and shoulders better than the rest as a standalone image with the caption: At the Haitian Crisis and Relief Center, Boston 14 Januarly 2010.

Patti · January 18, 2010

Great series rutt. I can't begin to imagine the worry for those with family in Haiti to say nothing of the devastated lives of those directly involved in Haiti. Our Governor General is of Haitian birth and struggled to maintain her composure during her press conference after the quake.

14 January 2010

Comments