Homo Waggis Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

He is the King of the city, everything runs around him, he is allowed all forms of street terror, meet the famous Basler Homo Waggis showing his best profile.

He is currently enjoying his days of glory, drey scheenschte Dääg

bostankorkulugu, BelCan75, ChrisJ, cbrman, AiresSantos, ALIRIZA, saylan-cb, riclopes, patdeph, ciakgiak, Sistercosmo, shevchenko, jjcordier, danos, Philippe, argycon, Charo, lucasgalodoido has marked this note useful

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wishnugaruda (1265) 2009-03-03 10:21

Hahaha, Jean Yves, this motive is lovely and I like the colours so much, bringing me right into good mood.
But the tree fine days have still gone, I always wonder how much spectacle is made around the carnival - we call it "Allemannische Fastnacht" here in the South of Germany. Crazy masks like that - sometimes it's almost a littly mystic.
Thanks and greetings
Sabine - wishnugaruda

baba_flies (7951) 2009-03-03 10:24

Hallo Jean Yves! Outsch, ich schaeme mich total, ich war noch nie vor Ort. Total coole Maske, was fuer eine Riesenarbeit, richtige Kuenstler sind da am Werk. Herrlich Deine Farben, na wenn die nicht den Winter vertreiben, wer dann sonst. Knallbunt und schrill, das brauchen wir, in dieser duesteren Zeit. Schoener Abend ... Barbara.

maglex (1550) 2009-03-03 10:39

Salut JEan! very nice strong vivid colors but most of all the expression of the composition. Cleanly captured. Rgds, Alex

bostankorkulugu (33514) 2009-03-03 11:27

the faces behind are a bit distracting although they are blurry... but the colourful waggis looks so cool JY... cheers... korkut

BelCan75 (2416) 2009-03-03 11:31

Hello Jean Yves,

Oh dear...this character looks kind of scary...haha. No wonder he's the King! ;) Beautiful POV with great light, beautiful colours and details. Great DOF as well, I really like this photo! Excellent work!

Greetings
Ann

RedDevil (1071) 2009-03-03 11:34

Hi Jean
good you are, can make every image a masterpiece.
Salvatore (Italy)

MarcT (21093) 2009-03-03 12:22

Salut Jean-Yves,
Une lumière vive et de belles couleurs pour un excellent rendu de ce masque de carnaval. Finalement l'orange est un bon compromis entre le rouge et le jaune !
Amitiés
Marc

toto (18695) 2009-03-03 13:13

Bonsoir,
belle photo de ce masque au superbe sourir.
Jolies couleurs, bonne netteté.
La luminosité est très bonne.

Amitiés Thomas

ChrisJ (70019) 2009-03-03 17:00

Bon Matin Jean Yves

Another superb carnival mask with good use of a shallow dof & impeccable sharpness, colour & saturation. Good lighting contrasts. Merci, et bon Mercredi!

cbrman (18790) 2009-03-03 21:52

Hello Jean-Yves,

Je vois que ce carnaval te manque ! Un profil plus qu'impressionnant effectivement. Une belle prise des plus colorée dotée d'un excellent bokeh.
J'aime particulièrement la grosse tâche orange qui équipe son gros nez !

A+

Dominique

AiresSantos (41866) 2009-03-03 23:05

Hi Jean Yves
Another colourful picture from the carnival in Basel. Very well captured the King of city.
Very well framed, excellent low DOF
Have a nice day
Aires

ALIRIZA (16197) 2009-03-04 0:10

Hi Jean,
Beautiful, interesting and colourful portrait from the carnival. Good idea and funny. Well done my dear friend...
All the best...
Ali Rıza

delpeoples (5810) 2009-03-04 0:37

Hi JY, wow this photo really jumps out at me. The colours and clarity are amazing and I lke the vertical framing together with how you've cropped it. Great job, Lisa.

aadilj (17950) 2009-03-04 1:05

Hi Jean, he seems so happy at something...probably at the fact that we are scared of him!! You have captured the scene well

saylan-cb (12726) 2009-03-04 2:06

Hi Jean,
Very nice image here.Great capture and a very beautiful colours.I really like this POV and Background.
Excellent work!
TFS/Regards,
Have a nice day.

riclopes (32957) 2009-03-04 3:13

A King - I bet he is, JY. Impossible not to smile at this amazing face. And you sure got stuck to him too since there's no possible escape here. Not sure what strikes more, if the psycadellic hair or those teeth but the whole set makes me want to attack my canvas - it's quite an inspired image for the things I usually paint...and there's a lot of wasted oil paint on his nose.
have a nice day,
ricardo

corniste (4214) 2009-03-04 3:39

Bonjour Jean-Yves,

A part réveiller des bon souvenirs, tu as mis sur l'image les deux moments très forts de 2008 à Bâle... Le carnaval et cette incroyable arrivée des hollandais pour l'euro 2008 de foot... J'avais rarement vu des gens autant collectivement délirer de ma vie; je reste triste pour eux qu'ils ait perdu!
C'est peut-être la grosse tache sur le nez...

Avec mon bon souvenir et mes meilleures salutations,

Jeff

patdeph (17694) 2009-03-04 4:32

bonjour Jean-Yves
les couleurs éclatent,et le masque est parfaitement cadré avec une excellente profondeur de champs!Bien vu!
Amitiés
Pascale

ciakgiak (10496) 2009-03-04 6:36

Hi Jean,
Really great image, so strong and with very beautiful colours. POV and sharpness are fantastic and the background out of focus is perfect to isolate the subject.
Well done!
Best regards.
Giorgio

saxo042 (15482) 2009-03-04 9:56

Hi Jean Yves,
Incredible colours, seems to have been a good moment!
Kind regards
Gunnar

claudio74 (6414) 2009-03-04 9:57

Hello Jean Yves
Encore une belle image haute en couleur.
C est bien compose et ca en jette.
bien vu
A+
Claude

barrufeto_77 (25697) 2009-03-04 11:06

Hi Jy.

Ahhhhh...excellent pic. Another lovely good one from Carnival with excellent colours and details.

And Nikki and the evil RM...Ufff...I'm thinking of join to facebook and create a group against them hahahahahahahahha

Sistercosmo (2569) 2009-03-04 11:28

Hi Jean-Yves!
"drey scheenschte Dääg" LOL! This guy doesn't look like a fun guy to me. Those eyes are positively frightening! But you captured him perfectly so that I can get a good feeling of what this guy is like.
His time comes to an end tonight, doesn't it?
Thanks and take good care, my friend!
Linda

gilou530 (35007) 2009-03-04 12:29

salut terreur
un masque que tu aurai pu avoir de face pur qu'on se rende compte de la laideur du personnage, une belle lumiére et des couleurs flashy, j'adhére a l'avis de marc l'orange est pour la paix des ménages.....
amitiés
gilou

shevchenko (9862) 2009-03-04 18:11

Hello Jean,
This two latest photos showing colorful firgure of the road show, full in festival atmosphere, distinct color, good sharpness, well done.
Ally

jjcordier (24470) 2009-03-04 21:40

Jean Yves
Tu nous fais patienter avec ce retour en arrière....on ne peut plus coloré; ça c'est du masque, tout en discrétion et en retenue!Prise de vue parfaite et vivement le cru 2009!
Amitiés
JJ

syrus_persia (2140) 2009-03-05 0:23

Salam Jean
A VERY superb view of carnaval, a real festival of colours very well collected, the atmospher very well collected.
Thank you
cyrus

vincz (19039) 2009-03-05 2:47

De retour sur TE apres un long break studieux... C'est une bonne occasion pour decouvrir plein de super images d'un coup, dans ta galerie notamment. Celle ca est super avec toutes ces couleurs et la bon choix de dof. Quel nez!

danos (32198) 2009-03-05 23:27

Good morning Jean,
really the face of the city's king is impressive with the light to make it even more brilliant.Successful carnival uniform-mask.Well done.

Have a nice day,Danos

anto95 (1794) 2009-03-06 5:37

Hi Jean,
Wonderful mystic landscape. Good colors. Very good capture and frame.
Excellent framing and composition, great light managment, beautiful colours! Congratulations!
Anto95

Tobias__Ortmann (2589) 2009-03-06 9:04

Hi jean Yves,
very colorfull image
wonderfull contrast and good moemnt you captured
well done
best regards
Toba

Philippe (11763) 2009-03-09 13:40

Bonjour, JY. Un cadrage serré qui met bien en valeur ce personnage carnavalesque. tu as laissé juste ce qu'il faut d'espace devant lui pour que la photo puisse respirer. Très bonne mise au point et PDC.
Bonne soirée,
Philippe

argycon (2749) 2009-03-09 14:41

Hi Jean Yves,
Impressive capture from the carnival mask!
I like very much the saturated colors!
Superb photo!
tfs
Kostas

Charo (31665) 2009-03-11 15:42

Bonsoir Jean Yves,
Un masque de la terreur qui est amusant.
Excellent portrait avec de belles couleurs et d'excellents détails.
Amitiés,
Charo

lucasgalodoido (16583) 2009-03-11 19:17

Hi Jean,
very interesting mask here, the colors, sharpen and DOF are perfect. Great job.
Regards,
Lucas

NickPavlakis (492) 2009-04-10 18:47

Good photo my friend. I think you should have played with undesaturating some of the orange and maybe add some USM details. Maybe some more blurring on the background also would do the trick of making your subject stand out.
Thanks for sharing this
Nikos