Street delicacies

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• dolin (15647)
• [2006-06-04 11:55]

Salut Luko.
Du hot camembert....mmmhhhhh beurk :)
Chouette prise avec une excellente utilisation de la totalité de l'espace.
Le cadrage est vraiment top.
Très bonne gestion avec ces détails et cette 2ème personne dans le fond sombre.
Pis t'as gouté ? C'était bon ? ;)
Dolin

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• kevinos (6008)
• [2006-06-04 13:36]
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Very interesting indeed! Francis and I had an encounter with these recently, probably in the same Yaowarat , side-street restaurant. Since he is posting his Bangkok pictures now, we may get to see his view of these very same chicken feet. I think I recognize them! Even I took some pictures, (to avoid actually having to eat them) but my chicken feet don’t look as tasty as yours.

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• Darren (6801)
• [2006-06-04 13:55]
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Hi Luko. Other than the man looking a little more Thai than in other SE Asian countries, this could well have been taken in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Viet Nam, the Phils or quite a few other spots too. Actually, the shirt reminds me of the Phils.

On to the photo. This is a good shot I think, although maybe not quite up with the best of your stuff. I think the biggest thing for me is that your lens just wasn't quite wide enough to get the exaggerated wide angle perspective that would have really pulled us into the chicken bits pot. Colors are nice and I think the exposure is very good too. Might have been better to have the guy tucked more into the top right corner, as opposed to leaving him slightly centered.

The chicken feet are actually quite tasty, but they are a pain to eat; there isn't much meat in there and you tend to make embarassing sucking noises while chowing down on them. I am surprised you haven't tried them up til now. You are French after all, doesn't that mean you will eat anything? ;)

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• designsoul (21338)
• [2006-06-04 13:57]

I love the angle and the absolutely essential verticality of your shot, Luko, with which you make us really see things for what they are, be it marinated chicken feet not particularly favoured by the farangs. While I wouldn't opt for cooking them, I certainly would try the thick curried version, out of sheer curiosity though ;-)
sasa

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• Rinie_Hoff (9314)
• [2006-06-04 17:32]
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Maestro, bon soir!!
What do you come up with now?? And what about this stalking? I knew you stalked Francis, but you're beginning to look like Tom with his fisheye! Beware of that. Before long the only safe place will be right behind you and you will become the stalked instead of the stalker. (Just an advice).

Hmmm, I'm not
sure about what you bring to the table here. I have always been amazed by the fact that people could find something to eat from these chicken feet, but nevertheless they are used. Not by us, and I agree with Darren, I'm a bit surprised that the French do not have it on their menu, as they have 'Tripe" of which you were afraid that a Dutch woman might not like it. Well, I'm not really against it, it was not bad, but I'm willing to try a lot of things, AND I do agree that it would have probably would have been much better if it would have been accompanied by hot camembert. ;-) (private joke). I looked for a link to "slow food cooking" as I think they would use things like this as well, and I can agree with some of their points os view. Ever heard of them? Here's a website in French.
(As a child, I played with those feet every now and then, pull on the tendon and then the toes moved, great fun)

Nice PoV, Luko, and I do not know what to say, I do not get hungry by looking at it, but that's probably because I have just had a nice meal with more garlic in it than other ingredients, it seems, so you are lucky that I'm not directly talking to you ;-)
BTW, have you seen this?

Anyway, tomorrow, I'm going to listen to the Dalai Lama in Antwerp, I hope he brings some sweeping monks. Photography is not allowed, but I think I will have forgotten that by tomorrow ;-)

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• Furachan (0)
• [2006-06-04 20:47]

"The essential verticality of your shot", damn! Sasa took the words right our of my mouth! But there'S another lesson here hidden in your "stalking" of Darren's stalk of your Singapore Sling shot. And it is this: sometimes bokeh is appropriate and essential sometimes...not.
I KNOW you're saying that and you knwo what my friend, it needs to be said.
Best,
Francis

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• MKING (3044)
• [2006-06-04 22:25]

Lovely swathe of information, telling it more or less as it is. I don't know about needing a wider lens-- you might show more head but it'll also be quite severely stretched. I like the compromise made here. Stepping back would make the man and the dishes smaller. I suppose he could be a little less centred, panning a little left would show more of the roasted... things on the left (chicken?).

Don't you denegrate my farrang preference for Pad Thai (I almost lived off the stuff in Thailand). I did eat some chicken too, the famous green chicken curry... sans the feet. Eating the feet doesn't seem so difficult, psychologically now that I've shared a meal with a roasted whole dead pig in a Hong Kong BBQ restaurant...

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• tcht (7163)
• [2006-06-05 6:19]

Hi Luko,
They're actually quite delicious - especially the chicken feet part where only the skin is edible and consumed with the soup and flavourings.
And I enjoy your angle of view..great texture and focus. Actually it reminds me of a Martin Parr picture I've seen.
nice documentary!
CheukHin

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• david (3962)
• [2006-06-05 9:14]

i'd prefer chickens' feet to still be on the chicken! :)

i can't take my eye off the man's hand. caught in the middle of an action that i can't determine. it's a little disconcerting for me.

the image is good, but that hand! i wish you had caught it at the end of the movement, so that we can see the intention.

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• AnimeshRay (8779)
• [2006-06-05 10:37]

Excellent rejoiner! THe sharp focus all over in this frame is equally illustrative as the other one, forcing us to linger on every point of the photo. Excellent color, as usual.

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• markoci (3871)
• [2006-06-06 3:45]

an excellent chicken feet portrait... never tasted it, would assume not much meat.. also reminds me of other parts we used to feed our dog... man, if you've ever removed the lid from a pot on the stove to see what's for dinner, only to find a bunch of chicken heads, with their cold eyes staring at you accusingly... not a pretty sight (or smell). just wanted to mention this to explain why perhaps this photo is not one of my favorites from you. a good docushot for the food category (i like the wall hanger and the few thai letters to give us the location). well composed and (as usual) of great quality (your lighting, sharp details and colours always amaze me) but i'm missing the usual punch or humour we're accustumed from you. perhaps if his posture were more interesting... i'm with david about the hand i think. i mean it does resemble the chicken feet, i get it, but i wish they were more stretched out (maybe if you snapped a split second later?) his eyes also seem strangely shut, as if he were sleeping, rather than looking down, concentrating on his work...

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• fixed (3825)
• [2006-06-10 8:14]

ouff, c'est vrai que là, une soupe au pieds de poulet çà me tente moyen :) ... mais bon, à choisir entre çà et du coussinet de chien ... arfff, qu'est-ce que je dis ... pas cool ...
beau jeu de formes et beau cadrage Luko avec une belle note ...
... sinon, je suis moyen emballé par les tonalités et lumière ... un peu maussades
a biental
nono chamo :)

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• Prisley (1134)
• [2006-06-11 13:54]

C'est fou comme les mains de ce cuisinier ressemblent à ce qu'il cuisine en premier plan !!! T'en aurais pas rapporté un peu ? ça vaut bien une étoile filante au jeu de la dégustation de mets exotiques ça, non ?
J'aime bien la composition avec tous ces objets ronds...tabouret, bols et marmites remplies...miam, ça me donne presque faim ! Mais je me contenterai de riz blanc...poulet frit :)

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• Zepi (22848)
• [2006-06-13 5:18]
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Ahhhh, mon sacré Luko !
Bon, aujourd’hui c’est journée sans commentaires, sans photos, mais seulement du foot !
Allez, juste un petit WS pour la route !
Hoooooooooop suisse
Ps : Ma naturalisation togolaise est route !
Comme ça, on vaincra 2 fois les bleus en 1 mondial ! ! ! !
lol

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• jmdaoudal (18662)
• [2006-06-13 5:22]

C'est apétissant et en plus ça amuse les suisses qui sont irrestiblement attirés par tout ce qui contient du "chicken" aujourd'hui...
Je cours à la laiterie pour la photo de demain.
Plus sérieusement j'aime bien ce plan et le sujet développé dans la note.
Bravo
Jean Michel