In a glimpse Photo

Photographer’s Note

Not yet the last day of summer, but the last weekend of holidays in Geneva. Next Monday all the children will go back to school for another year of literary-kind drama. Now, when we were younger, you and I, I’m sure you remember that “when we grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers, who would hurt the children anyway they could…” . Things haven’t changed much with the slight difference that nowadays it’s more common to see children hurting their teachers than the other way around.

For those who can still run, take good profit of this last weekend, seize the hours before they vanish in a glimpse, let your thoughts run free before getting back to the norm. A free traveller is the one who faces nude the unknown, and lets himself be carried by death. Because travelling is dying before being able to reborn again. How would we understand our opposite, otherwise?

robiuk, Clairedelune, annaart, syd1946, bnallama, bakes888, s10001in, bibiweb, stefi, pady, yanseiler, markoci, Jacobp, eleparc, luisafonso, Luko, thebecky, BrianGraney, kajspice, pgorod has marked this note useful

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guillaumejm (9026) 2006-08-25 17:09

Hello,
Very artistic picture. I like the composition and colours. The PP is nice here.
Best regards
JMarc

robiuk (10763) 2006-08-25 17:12

Hi Gal,
Very pleasing image of motion and freedom.
Any chance to give out more details on photographing technique present here?
Have a pieceful weekend,
Robi

Vanni (172) 2006-08-25 17:21

Hi, I really like this one!! its as if the photo holds a poem that will only tell it to poeple who would listen to it.

Thanks for sharing it with us. Once again... great work!!

Daniel-X (17) 2006-08-25 17:23

good work

Clairedelune (4883) 2006-08-25 17:25

Cours petite! Oui, cours, cours et dis OUI à cette vie mystérieuse et enivrante. Cette vie rose dans ses aspects joyeux et sereins. Cette vie verte où tous les espoirs sont permis. Cette vie sombre où souffrances, trop souvent, viendront noircir un pan de l'image globale. Mais vis! Vis pour connaître l'Autre. Vis pour voyager de par le monde ou dans ton âme. Vis, pour l'amour.
Gal. Une beauté. Une inspiration. Mes respects.
Claire

annaart (311) 2006-08-25 17:25

hi
Good shot. It's very dynamic picture. You've captured this moment very well.
Cheers
Anna

syd1946 (17807) 2006-08-25 18:12

Hello Gal,
It is an amazing capture of this incredible scene.Full of motion,great technique,so creative.Congratulations!

Thomas

kerusso (112) 2006-08-25 18:19

Gal~
What a great capture! The blur gives an excellent effect. Bravo!
Sasha

blakitan (1311) 2006-08-25 18:19

Hi Gal,
Nice shot, great PP works.

Ben Lakitan

bnallama (3755) 2006-08-25 18:33

Hi Gal, a great capture and simple reminder that we should enjoy the present.... thanks for sharing. Bala

hot (277) 2006-08-25 18:45

the girl is dynamics and this photo impressive
colors and comp. very well
:)

naxius (16679) 2006-08-25 19:00

Grandiose comme photo...Une des meilleures que j'ai pu voir sur TE depuis très longtemps! Vraiment Gal, il y a de l'art dans cette photo...
C'est curieux, il y a du mouvement et tu arrives à figer cet instant en pleine course, l'éphémère semble devenir intemporel.
Elle me plaît beaucoup cette photo, une fav pour moi.
Alex

AnimeshRay (8886) 2006-08-25 19:46

Excellent diagonal panning. Nice rich color and composition.

bakes888 (18055) 2006-08-25 20:46

Hi Gal Lovely fleeting glimpse. You must have been on your toes to catch this image. Well timed and thanks for sharing.
Cheers. Paul.

s10001in (1485) 2006-08-26 1:41

Gal
Genious work.
Great dynasim to shot.
Well done.
-Shailendra

DarkoG (2284) 2006-08-26 2:45

Message of this weel executed photo to me is : "Run you can't hide.... World of grown up full of obligations and troubles will catch you."
Somehow strange, but in my oppinion the black part on right is detail that gives the strength to this photo. Kid running into something she dont know, hide behind this black courtain. Going out of world of childrens inniocence and fun in the world of grown up people.
YEs, very good photo indeed.

Regards DArko

bibiweb (8) 2006-08-26 2:53

Wow Gal!
C'est vraiment super comme photo avec à la fois du filé et du flou. C'est très dynamique et j'aime bien cette zone sombre sur la droite vers laquelle cette petite semble vouloir disparaître. Quand je vois des images comme celle-ci je trouve que mes paysages sont vraiment très fades....
Bon week-end.
Bibi

Furachan (0) 2006-08-26 3:03

Ah, faut le faire, de la magie pure, Gal! Tu es un peu sorier tu sais dans tes facons ;o)Oui bien entendu c'est une scene de fuilm (Louis Malle, lelaoluch, ou plutot Days of Heaven). je n'osearsis pas, tant de flou, mais brillament controle.
Bravo!
Francis

ALSOM (6616) 2006-08-26 3:50

Oui la photo se doit de procurer des émotions et des interrogatons, même furtivement ....

Un instant saisi à la volée, un instantanné, un 'polaroïd' qui se doit être immédiat et gravé pour immortaliser un moment de la vie de famille.

C'est toi qui disait ne pas aimer tes photos actuelles, moi j'aime bien ;o).
Bon week-end.
Alain -

priyasri_80 (363) 2006-08-26 4:37

Wonderfully captured the running girl. Not only her dress but also the sky looks pink and captures the eye well.
Priya

jinju (14265) 2006-08-26 5:02

Im digging thi shot. It also gave me the idea to upload one of my own blurry shots, although mine is with a motorcycle rider. I was hesitant to upload it to TE but the reaction has surprised me. Not bcause its not a great shot, I love these sort of energetic, artistic blurs, but rather because I didnt think they would be appreciated by the rest of the TE community. This one is and rightfully so.

ndb1958 (9228) 2006-08-26 6:02

Fantastic and artistic image. I have no idea of this tecnique, but it is amasing. A wonderful and powerful scenry. Beautiful tones.
Nino

flydragon (0) 2006-08-26 6:37

Hello gal
une image magique
une image qui pourrai
etre la couverture d'un roman
c'est ce que j'ai pensé en premier
en voyant ce cliché
j'aime bcp
tres artistique comme travail
amicalement
••simon••

pady (4800) 2006-08-26 6:54

Moment magique habilement capturé.
C'est très artistique, esthétique.
Merci pour ce partage.
Amitiés
Pierre-André

yanseiler (20) 2006-08-26 7:49

Salut Gal, c'est assez terriblement bien fait ça, non seulement j'aime bien ce panning ? avec un superbe placement de l'enfant mais les couleurs sont superbes, on dirait vraiment que tu as collé une image de gamin floue sur un tableau de grand maître, très joli...

Pour la note, c'est vrai que les temps ont changés, on regardait la France de haut par exemple en se disant qu'on avait de la chance de ne pas avoir une société décadente avec ce qui se passait dans les écoles, et puis un jour voilà, chez nous aussi...
A+
Yan

jrzufferey (7249) 2006-08-26 13:30

C'est vraiment bien réussi ce flou qui donne une sensation de vitesse incroyable. Bravo/jr

athos99 (6894) 2006-08-26 14:20

Salut Gal
Ce filé oblique est très beau, malgré le temps pose et le grand bougé de la fille c'est suffisamment net.
Le mouvement de la fille est très élégant, j'aime ce penché en avant et ce bras arrière quasi parallèle avec le mouvement du filé. Peut-être que cette partie noire à droite me contraint, mais c'est vraiment un petit détail devant la qualité de cette photo.

PS: Canon devrait sortir un accessoire pour faire du vignetage avec ce 100mm !

cessy (13647) 2006-08-27 2:12

ah la rentree :) yup my children both excited and worried
very nice capture of this girl running, Gal
the panning works very well to dramatize the running

faubry (32197) 2006-08-27 3:36

hello Gal, impressionnant shot! very good work!!!!good effect of blur
BRAVO
++
francine

Jacobp (798) 2006-08-27 5:10

Hi Gal
very intresting shot.The colors are very good.
I realy like this photo.

jacob

eleparc (24059) 2006-08-27 6:11

slt Gal, j'aime bcp l'effet obtenu par ton choix de vitesse et l'ouverture ..en revanche suis moins fan de la mase noire sur la droite. c'est quoi? un arbre?

markoci (3917) 2006-08-27 9:22

a nice "back to school" photo indeed! i like these dynamic shots, a cool effect... dvery dreamy colours too... the black edge on the right is a bit distracting for me though..

don_narayan (2014) 2006-08-27 19:15

Hello Gal,
So artistically beautiful, really, it is poetic and symbolic. Excellent work.

Narayan

luisafonso (858) 2006-08-28 5:15

Grande nota. Grande fotografia. De vez em quando há imagens aqui no TE que nos arrebatam de tal forma que todas as palavras sobre técnica e composição parecem totalmente despropositadas... Este é um desses casos. Esta foto é sobre sentimentos e deixa-me dizer-te que o coração e a alma estão bem abertos aqui. Excelente Gal.

sohrab (7423) 2006-08-28 16:56 [Comment]

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fixed (3831) 2006-08-29 8:47

reBonsoir Gal
superbe !
très créatif et artistique, avec au final un rendu sublime
bravo, très réussi
pour l'interprétation faudra demander au professeur JeanLuko ou peut-être que le professeur JeanGal a déjà analysé :D ?
bouuuuuuuuuuu, tu veux en parlé ? :D
à bientôt et encore bravo !
nono

Luko (13880) 2006-08-29 12:09

Not halfweighted in your statements, Gal.. I'll try to prevent my daughter from reading your text and looking at your photo. If ever she takes a look, I think I will have some difficulties to take her back to school for another year... she'd rather run away, like your girl does...
Holidays were studious though : she took lessons, but she enjoyed every second of them, it was surf lessons of any kind, on the real waves of Phuket... also on the Internet where she spends most of her time. This will be no more in a few days..

This is soooo pessimistic with that solid black hole in which she will soon be running into... gosh, in one hand, I'm happy to be past these days...althought each year at the same season I can still smell the leather of the satchel I would carry for a full year and the ink too...

Magnificent post processing with the diagonal strokes, a bit like drawn with Conté crayons.

everlasting (10894) 2006-08-29 13:58

An pleasing image of childhood freedom artistically captured. The brush strokes are straigth from her pencil case.

BrianGraney (1734) 2006-09-01 15:07

'Seize the hours before they vanish in a glimpse'
I love those words and love the photo - a work of art.
Thanks
Brian

mdetay (4265) 2006-09-19 19:18

Salut Gal.,
Je ne connaissais pas cette photo que je découvre en revisitant ton site. Elle me plait beaucoup, c'est un vrai tableau. Bien vu.
Je viens de passer le week end à Pingyao pour le PIP j'ai la tête pleine de photos. Ceci donne toute la dimention et met en perspective ta photo.
Bien amicalement.
Cheers de Shanghai.
Michel

walkmania (315) 2006-11-18 22:15

The color and a sense of velocity shown in the picture is just fantastic. Such a glimpse frozen will last longer in one's mind than many carefully contrived scenes.
Regards

golden (791) 2007-01-17 15:45

Magnificent work Gal!

Polonaise (5627) 2007-01-27 12:01

No reason for me to write a critique for THIS work of yours, Gal.
For, I did it before. Once.
Several weeks before your post, there was a photograph that inspired me tremendously to say something about the word so overused on TE, that became a worthless (I my opinion) phrase of describing the real value of a photograph.
Below is the copy (altered by me) of a critique to the other, equally great photograph posted before yours

"Portrait of a child"
Possibly, one of the most powerful PORTRAITS of a child right here , on TE.
It's an earth' child. That's what the childhood is all about.
Stunningly beautiful faces of young girls presented here, on TE, mostly are not PORTRAITS…They're photos of stunningly beautiful faces of young girls, made with the use of a mechanical device, designed and constructed in such a way to make that photo of a child as easy job as possible.
Making a portrait requires skills, imagination, honesty, education, intelligence and knowledge and yes, also some manual abilities to press that funny looking button on the top of your automatic, registering device. All these virtues mentioned above have to be present - simultaneously, combined together.
Why such a high demand?
Because we're talking about PEOPLE here, the one and only reason we exist, we work, we hate, we love, we take photographs…The other PEOPLE !!!
And portrait is a highest level of photography there is.
We are tremendously lucky to have a number of wonderful PORTRAITS of the people, here on TE, for which' credits go entirely to the photographers who made them.
Also we are extremely lucky to have thousands and thousands of photos of the most pretty faces of the girls and the boys, of which' the credits should go entirely to the eggs of their mothers and the sperms of their fathers, for creating such a marvel with wide open eyes and shaggy hair surrounding those eyes. God bless those fathers and mothers. You don't have to remember the names of the photographers, though.
Think please, my dear folks before you place those greenies on someone's work and call that work "Oh, what a wonderful portrait". Is it really a PORTRAIT ?
( there is enough of them around to check it out).
Or is it a cute and easy photo of a HUMAN FACE.
Here above is a PORTRAIT of a child, running the earth. That's what makes them children. Try to catch the feeling of a child running their lives and you got yourself a darn good portrait..
Thanks Gal…
You've managed to punch me again.
g.

pgorod (1122) 2007-01-27 13:48

I love the way the dark patch works in this picture... brings up the metaphor inside me... the motion is TIME. She's coming from a colorful past into a yet-unknown future. Beautiful photo, Gal, really beautiful.