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Photographer’s Note

She is a dancer who performs the sacred dance on the festival float with this mask and folding fan during float moving. Now the float moving was stopped, so she got down on the ground and cool down with folding fan which should be used for the sacred dance originally. But temperature was 33 C, nobody accuse her conduct, her mask cannot be taken off from the morning to evening.

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fanni (8873) 2009-08-23 11:50

Dear Takero,
I am REALLY surprised to see no comments to this photo!
Why so? I dare to guess that it's because the viewers of the photo do not see the dancer's face but they see a mask. But this doesn't make the capture less interesting!
In my opinion, it is a very interesting, although a bit unusual, capture.
The temperature was +33C?? Incredible! the dancer wearing a mask is a real hero!!
I like the depth of the photo and the composition which you chose, let alone the natural colours which I always appreciate highly in your photos :)
Kindest regards,
Elena

sevy (13952) 2009-08-24 0:13

Hello Takero,

Difficult to be a dancer and to be obliged to keep the mask all day long. Your note was very interesting to complete the photo by cultural aspects.
I like the composition with sharpness on the woman but still good reading of the background placing the portrait inside the environment. A nice reportage photo.

Yves.