Dhubar diner...

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• gmg (1372)
• [2007-05-29 14:56]

Nice ambient portrait even is the scanning process made the quality worse, mostly in the highlights.
GTFS

gmg

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• Uzi (839)
• [2007-05-29 15:46]

nice scene you captured
very well framed
it's only a little to magenta in colours
cheers
Iza

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• Furachan (0)
• [2007-05-29 18:38]

Again you set up a subtle coubterpoint, youth up front with age in the shadows making judicious use of light and color. A very smart double portrait.
Best,
-F

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• molla (4634)
• [2007-05-30 6:47]

hej caleb
I'v said it before, but there's only a few that manage to frame real people in the way you do it, straight forward no complication. I'v seen so many beautiful shots on ex.taj mahal... but I can by them postcards everywhere. This ones are truely unique and have so much more of being there.

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• delkoo (23644)
• [2007-05-30 7:26]

hi caleb
this is absolutely great shot, Excellent composition and perfect moment to capture such place.

regards
didier

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• designsoul (21332)
• [2007-05-30 22:11]

Gorgeous, gorgeous, theatrical, beautiful double portrait! The pose of the little girl in her sumptuous pink dress, with her melancholy and clear expression, vis a vis the mother (?) wrapped in the velvety background blur, is a tour-de-force of photography, again... a superb work, Caleb! And that blue silk drapery... like a dream play!
sasa

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• Luko (13504)
• [2007-06-05 12:33]
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The amazing thing here is the simple almost barren geometry of the furniture and even the background, like a peaceful break from a chaotic Asia...A simple claypot over a bare wooden table, something we would expect more in Brueghel paintings than in Kathmandu.
Strange but very nicely made.

I think I'll have to go to Nepal one of these days : what would your recommndations be for august time? Is that really raining hard at that time?

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• Evolution (266)
• [2007-10-21 19:24]

Your lens always seems to be pointed in the right direction !.
Another fine portrait showing a comtemplative mood. Only critique would be to reduce the higlights some, darken the shadows perhaps.

On another point, I read you are in Nepal now. I have a photographer friend wanting to do the Everest base camp trek in December...... yes, I told him he's nuts too, but anyway, my question for you is, what is the electicity supply like at the villages/chai shops along this route? for recharging camera gear....... Common/frequent or no? From solar?
Thanks,
Brian