Out of Café Maritimo, a photo from Algarve, South

Photographer's Note

Coming out of Café Maritimo, in Tavira town, things are not all that steady and paths are not that easy to follow for the remaining fishermen.

Tourism has clearly taken the lead over the traditional fishing activities.

Sometimes it needs one drink or two to clear up the future. Some fishermen looked like they actually knew how to count at least to ten.... but then the path was even steeper.

rigoletto, thea0211, al-Farrob, arturski, InasiaJones, BennyV ha puntuado esta nota como útil.

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faubry (35447) 2008-10-12 10:00

Bonsoir Luko, ce qui me dérange ici c'est que nous ne voyons pas suffisamment le haut du corps de l'homme de gauche, j'aurais aimé juste en voir un peu plus, car on dirait une tête coupée..une photo créative en tout cas;
à plus
francine

Merline (0) 2008-10-12 13:18

J'aime beaucoup, justement, cette tête toute seule seulette qui en dit long...ça tangue...au sortir du café. Le corps à droite parle pour deux je dirais, je vois que c'est deux photos, le résultat me plaît, beaucoup de lumière, une créativité très "cool" pour des vies pas faciles. Les détails à droite sont superbes. Le jean, il en jette. Un traitement très moderne et légèrement distancé pour une mélodie assez "saudade". Les perspectives sont sombres, d'après ta note. Du beau travail.

Bonne soirée, Luko
Michèle

Polonaise (5802) 2008-10-12 13:31

Yellow trams in the streets of Lisboa…
Old people sitting on their chairs in front of the rows of houses...
Ocean shores with the photogenic cliffs not far from the waterline and if you can afford an extra few hundred bucks to buy a 12mm. lens - you can also throw few rocks laying on the beach sand - into our bemused eyes…!

And the buildings, the buildings, the buildings…
Something is telling me that Portugal must be full of buildings !

And, if after that Lucullus' feast of yellow-orange walls ( with windows on them - mind you !!! ) and azulejos richly served into our thirsty minds - I see out of nowhere - a pair of wonderfully worn out blue jeans, cotton t-shirt, pack of fags and a wall…(YES… A wall !!!) that has no blue cast on it ( I wonder why…? Everybody knows that wall painted white is, as a matter of fact, a BLUE wall - on every freaking, single photo on TE )!!!
This is as common knowledge as the one about the blue snow… We all know that the snow should be blue in photos, right…?
Only such photos can gather sufficient amount of praises ( and green monkies) from the photography experts on the site !

And that's the reason dear Luko, WHY this photo of yours haven't been able to gather more critiques from the most advanced…
What did you expect ?
I repeat…
No azulejos in it, no old people sitting in front of, no wet rocks and the dramatic, pinko-magenta skies above the ocean shoreline, no yellow trams… Not even a one lousy house of Porto in it…???
(Yes… There is another city in Portugal, full of buildings…I I am almost sure of it !!!)
Instead…A rusty fisherman in blue jeans, cotton t-shirt, pack of cheap fags and a white ( ???) wall…
And, those hands of his, Luko…
These rough hands of a working man…!!!
That's what got me first and kicked my nuts…

And the blues jeans, and the white wall and few other things, that I'm too lazy to describe them…

A real photography… Real presentation… With the brain behind as an extra bonus…

Stay cool, FTA

G
……….

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vapours (8264) 2008-10-12 16:26

A real good story here Luko...both men looking wonky, not fitting in the frame correctly, no vision of where they are headed. I see a lot of substance behind this one, one I can't help but stare into and study each characters story.

kensimage (8563) 2008-10-12 23:29

I really like this, Luko. On the right I like how you captured the crookedness of his old and worn body, the way he stares off as if wondering, "What the hell happened to the good old days? How did I get left behind?" The guy on the left adds a note of disorientation, like he's lost and wandered into the wrong photo, the world having changed so much. Great idea to put the two together, congratulations.

horatiuTT (4570) 2008-10-13 0:19

Very nice capture of the man,in this sunny mood.I like how he
keeps the pack in the hand,and the textures from the pants that
are so visible because of the light,truly is a pleasure to see
again photos from you,well done.
Horatiu

rigoletto (34279) 2008-10-13 0:36

Some members who know somethings about photography are coming back, good photography is being encouraged while worse ones are trying to be improved, and Polonaise is writing good words to Luko...
Is TE gaining its old, beautiful days while the world is tumbling down into an economic war? Hopefully it is, as we need to see some good things again, in these depressing days around...
Creative double frame of the fishermen. The crop on the left, the tilt on the right, two colors, two fishermen brought together in a single frame... Something different, something refreshing in TE.
Rgs,
Deniz

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thea0211 (1365) 2008-10-13 1:20

hi luko,
really refreshing to have you back more around here!
so i suppose the left hand side part is the 'after' or the 'where would i get if i'd stay on this road even more' part of the future but the right hand side reality doesn't look very healthy and appealing either ;o)
still it is as human as can get, filled with that strange and not so obvious beauty human nature can have in all of its manifestations.
a sight you'd expect in front of any smaller and less posh cafe in any part of the world where "tourism has already taken over" since "things are not all that steady and paths are not that easy to follow" for anyone anymore ... so what can one do, but ...?
good observation!
dora

nicoz (1979) 2008-10-13 13:01

Salut Luko,
encore une photo atypique de ta part. Juste un petit montage comme ca, et je trouve qu'il manque quelque chose. Les photos sont bonnes et seraient sans-doutes mieux mises en valeur dans une serie. Je dis oui, mais pas sur TE.
A+
Nicolas

stevev1 (10) 2008-10-14 9:12

Hi Luko,

When I saw the thumbnail my heart almost stopped...don't do that !

When I had the full imago open in the browser that feeling of being nailed to the floor stayed with me for a few seconds.

But then I saw it.....no, oh no ,please no...this image will not keep me awake tonight! You almost punched me in the face, really I got dissapointed. You know, I really thought this was ONE single frame for a moment and a truly superb one. But it was not to be

So this diptych works..big time

All the best
Steve

archimatica (20648) 2008-10-20 13:32

Great great shot.
See in front page of TE, today 2008:10:20.

Regards,
Renzo

Prisley (1485) 2008-10-22 13:41

Le montage a quelque chose qui interpelle, qui dérange presque...on ne voit pas pourquoi les visages ne sont pas au même plan, pourquoi cette composition d'une image qui a l'air presque ratée. Mais en l'ouvrant on comprend, alors on lit pour comprendre mieux car on a pas vraiment l'habitude de ce genre de montage sur TE. Et là, les petites roues du cerveau se mettent à tourner...on part en vrille...on a envie d'écrire des louanges à l'auteur de cet étonnant "reportage".
J'adore en tout point la photo de droite avec ce puissant tilt qui ne s'aperçoit qu'en observant le fond...d'ailleurs on dirait que tu as voulu redresser cet homme, comme pour lui redonner un peu de dignité , c'est intéressant comme parti-pris.
La photo de droite est pour moi très conceptuelle et c'est ce qui élève ton montage à ce "niveau". Polonaise a raison, le blanc est parfait. Le flou sur le visage dont on ne voit plus qu'un bout...et bien cela me fait penser que cette partie est en fait le moi intérieur de l'homme de droite...une ombre de lui-même... il a l'air ne ne plus bien savoir qui il est où qui il a pu être...il est entouré d'un grand vide...une page blanche...
J'aime ces petites surprises que tu nous concoctes...qui font réfléchir :o)
A+
Pris.

InasiaJones (31566) 2008-11-03 20:38

Salut,

Même si tu as plusieurs années d'avance dans le nez côté photo, j'arrive à suivre ce que tu fais en général. C'est certain qu'il y a longtemps que tu as décidé de sortir des sentiers battus et je t'admire pour ça, d'autant plus que tu as souvent les arguments pour appuyer tes démarches, parfois pas toujours évidentes au premier coup d'oeil.

Ici, pas difficile d'aimer tout de suite et spontanément, mais je veux parler de la photo de droite... Le personnage que tu as dégoté vaut son pesant d'or, tant dans sa posture que son attitude. Et en le tiltant autant, tu as presque corrigé son problème de colonne vertébrale.

Faudra que tu m'expliques cependant la case de gauche, où la mise au point est sur le mur plutôt que sur ton sujet. Le cropping extrême lui ne me gêne pas et ton montage non plus. C'est créatif et ça me plaît.

Ciao!

André

arturski (4465) 2008-11-13 11:20

Hi Luko !
Outstanding work, great photography, well done!
Regards
Artur

setsun (77) 2008-11-28 23:32

Wow! thats a fantasic moment captured. Keep up the good work.

Housegaijin (0) 2009-02-28 5:48

This works very well for me. The irony of course is that you have other less "surprising" images from Lisboa that might come close to what George is on about in that hilarious riff ;o) But not here, no. here all we have is the attitude, what's left of the attitude of those old guys who can remember a colonial, parade ground Portugal under Salazar, then the Rose Revolutions and a near Third World period of abject poverty, then the scrapping around the EU table and money coming in at last, then another swerve toward poverty, again.
It's a Fado song, I tell ya...

BennyV (34734) 2009-09-08 0:08

Sometimes on TE you stumble upon a gallery and you wonder how is it possible that you haven't noticed it before. Like this one.

Very original composition, very sharp (as in 'a sharp mind' - I'm not talking about photographical technicalities here). Great contrast white/colours, lovely play of angles and tilts. And - yes - I like those crops. Sharp!

Benny