Not much to tell about these images, except that this was where the man in the previous post was looking at.

A wonderful graffiti on a corner in Barcelona...

one more from Barcelona, some highly artistic gratify...

... it took me some time to post this image. For me the image does transport a decisive moment there however is no motion, no person.

What makes it possible to feel a decisive moment without those elements?

One part can be found in the light... the light here is something like the saying that you can not step in the same river twice...

On the other hand we're left alone with the question if there is someone out there in the light. Will the person show up in the image in a moment or did someone just disappear... you never will know what I saw.

The decisive moment solely exist in our imagination, we see something what is not there: an imaginary decisive moment!

We arrived in Sittwe in the west of Burma late afternoon. During the daytime there was an solar eclipse and the street was full of emotions and excitement. I took an incredible number of images of the people in the street, this girl has been following me and definitively wanted to pose as well.

This portrait definitively is more soft and less intense as the previous one.

The girl wears traditional Thanaka face paint which is worn as decoration and sun block.

.. one year ago in Aleppo, another moment, another street.

Enjoy!

Another decisive moment or 3 and a half.....

A decisive moment from Aleppo (Syria).

There still are images from Syria in the pipeline, this one is just a preview from the trip to Burma earlier this year.

I met this homeless boy on the fish market in Sittwe, it seems he was not really welcome there... He was shy, afraid of the adults, isolated. It took me some time to convince him to pose for a portrait at this unfriendly place. He was standing there with some dignity, showing a difficult life. Besides some friendliness he got some money, at least that morning he must have had a good start in the day.

I worked hard on my b&w technique, my target was to not have such a clean digital image with just good tones. The final image has some (digital) grain, toning and I am happy about the sharpening result.

Normally I am not the one to talk about technique but I found some great hints last days:

- The sharpening workflow is described at Earthbound Light.

- The (digital) grain was taken from Nikos Kantarakias.

- The concept for toning I found in the blog of George Barr.

Grain was applied after the sharpening, I think grain should not be sharpened.

Thanks for the inspiration!

During the Syria trip I visited a small village with Beehive houses (one on the background of the building), it was empty and nobody seems to be at home. Then the girl showed up and waved to come in for a tea.

Streets in Syria were too full for me, I did manage some portrait (see previous posts) but I just have a few shots from the streets. Today a first one:

1st price in photo competition by UNICEF Netherlands:

As promised yesterday, after a longer period of absence, a new slide show!

I do have my difficulties to choose photo's from Cuba for the Blog, today a streetshot and... Tomorrow a slideshow with Streets of Cuba! (Promised!!)

quite strange, is't it?

...it's a matter of seeing and pressing the button on the decisive moment (and of course to be there at the right time)

What should I say? just a nice corner and a nice moment in La Habana.

These days I am lazy and do not find too much time to work on the huge amount of material I have from Cuba. To give a sign of life today a streetshot from Habana.

after a break of some weeks (we where traveling and visited Syria) I today continue with some more street shots from Cuba.

This is the only post this month, sure I do have a lot more to show from Cuba. Other activities prevented me to be more productive and we are leaving for our next trip to Syria.

Yesterday I showed some photographs which I took while mixing in a crowd. To do that there was a barrier of hesitation to be taken. During our stay in Santiago de Cuba I saw this crowd of musicians, the way they where playing was extremely emotional. A strong moment to mix again with a crowd.

Yesterday I mentioned that besides chess in Cuba Domino is an elementary part in Cuban life. Besides this baseball as a "real" sport is very popular. In Habana we saw men talking about baseball very intensively in a square. I mixed between them and could take some wonderful portraits. Normally for portraits I ask permission, in this case asking was not possible. They saw me and they accepted me taking some wonderful portraits.

Usually I show just one photograph a day, this series needs to be shown together and as an exception to the rule today 3 more.

these boys lost something..

.. they did not found what they where looking for. I think the boys and the mural are a nice repetition.

for some reason I returned home from Cuba with quite a lot of dogs in the photographs.

Here another one...

Enough material for a "dogs category" of the blog.

There are 2 triangles in this street-shot, one a positive and another one a negative shape.

Well, next days I will try to post more from our trip to Cuba earlier this year.

As mentioned before, I not only took portraits in Cuba. Today I show you a result of my "experiments" in street photography.

I have quite a lot of work to be shown here, however last days some unplanned activities took place, therefore things went a bit slower than weeks before. Next days more frequent posts here.

Let's continue with some more street photography..

By the way, I did some management on the categories (in the side bar on the left and on top of each posting) now they should be usable to show postings with content of a similar type.

Today another dog in the street.

Nice shirt!

In Cuba I did some first steps towards street photography.

What is the dog looking at? We never will know, I followed the dog after taking this photograph and did not look into the building.

... quite a lot of (photographic details) have been changed since I returned from Cuba. Work from there is no longer only in square format, the format is chosen more related to the content. Besides this, the subjects of my photography are also street shots and the sepia toning disappeared.

Bellow another "street" shot:

Quite a lot of changes, I feel comfortable about them, what do you think?