On 1/2/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grabbed some lunch a while back and saw these three women in conversation. > Spent some time and shot a roll of Tri-X with one of the Leicas. The woman > on the viewer's right is the daughter of the woman in the center, and the > woman on the left is a friend of the daughter. When the women were leaving > the woman in the center approached me and said that she saw me making > photos, told me who everyone in the scene was, and we chatted a bit about > some inconsequential subjects. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~shel-pix/3women-23.html >
I already told you I love it, but now that the Irish got their butts kicked, I'll tell you why I like it so much. It's not just that there's three of them, it's the way two of them seem to be taking a side against the other. Their discussion seems to intense and engaging!. I love your framing decision here, Shel. The oblivious crowd is all on the left, so their out of the way, yet we see them there, as they ignore the little drama going on right next to them. I rather like the fact that they're not a lot OOF, I like that we can see them and their expressions. Since they're not right behind the trio, they're not such a distraction, so seeing them is good. I love their immediate background: those wine bottles are fantastic! I especially like the way they even "get out of the way" of the head of the right-hand lady, seeming to frame her. I can't see a thing wrong with this one - indeed, I think it's a wonderful photograph. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
