Challenge 3: Through The Eye of A Needle - Submissions

[bakubo]

Excellent Henry. I like very much this style of photos. Probably wouldn't be that great in color.

Thanks, Doc. I have met so many wonderful people while traveling over the years. I wish I had been shooting digital in that village, it was 1998, because the children there would have had me taking photos for hours. They wanted me to take lots of photos, but with film I had to be cognizant of how much film I had left and how much traveling left to do. My recollection is that it started with the single girl in the photo below, then the other girls came when they saw me taking her photo and then before I knew it kids from all over the village came running up and wanting me to take their photo.

The original is color film, but I converted to B&W. Here is another taken at the same time that I left in color:



We spent 3 days and 2 nights in a little boat on the Mekong River going to Luang Prabang and stopped each night at villages to spend the night. At this place I was having fun playing with several children and taking some photos. Here are a couple more of some of the other children:

[Dr. Harout]

Wonderful set.

[bossel]

Another well done to Bakubo!!!

[Dusty]

Good job, Henry. It's telling about our culture that these kids in little villages can be happy with practically nothing, and most kids in our world aren't happy because they don't have everything!

Dusty

[aster]

Good job, Henry. It's telling about our culture that these kids in little villages can be happy with practically nothing, and most kids in our world aren't happy because they don't have everything!

Dusty

Very nice set bakubo!

I agree with Dusty that children with little means provided for them become more socially creative and learn to have the most fun with a witty state of mind and turn out stronger at a very early age.

The three little sisters and the three boys are truely cute. And they make the expression 'through the eye of a needle' happen with the life they lead.

Yildiz

[bakubo]

Yes, the children and people in general usually seem quite happy. With movies, television, internet, and other communications media more and more people in the less developed world these days are acutely aware of the differences in their lifestyle compared to the lifestyle of most people in the more developed world. You know the old saying Ignorance is Bliss? Even many people there are no longer satisfied to live their lives without a bunch of possessions and always trying to get more. When I was a kid we had so much less than kids these days and were quite happy to go outside and play. Of course, even then my parents would say that we had so much more than they did growing up in the Great Depression. Sort of reminds me of the Neil Young song Days That Used To Be.

Here the Tortoise Pagoda in the middle of Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi, Vietnam is framed by the branches of a tree:



I guess this photo could fit into the tree thread too.

[pakodominguez]

Tarifa, Spain. Winter 2003
Dimage 7Hi ISO 100; 1/250 @ f8

It was, of curse, windy...

[aster]

Tarifa, Spain. Winter 2003, Dimage 7Hi ISO 100; 1/250 @ f8
It was, of curse, windy...

Very nice pakodomingez,

One good example to the concept of the challenge.
By giving us a strong hint of the vastness beyond as ocean and the horizon through the only and smallest opening in the whole of the photo, your photo interprets the soul of the expression 'through the eye of a needle' very successfully.

Congratulations!
I hope we see more different samples... from anyone and everyone.

Yildiz

[pakodominguez]

Thank you Yildiz for your kind words

[KevinBarrett]

Wonderful, Pako! I like this interpretation.