Hide And Seek Photo

Photographer’s Note

Saturday I stopped downtown to visit the local library when I noticed the "Friends of the Library" were holding a book sale in front of Town Hall. I grabbed my camera and wandered toward the display tables loaded with books. I noticed this pair, mother and child, no doubt, playing an animated version of hide and seek. First one, then the other stood behind this column, "pretending" to hide. I say pretending because the column was too small to hide either of them. As you can see they were sharing great joy with one another. Enjoy their delight!

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eugeneahn (298) 2005-11-07 2:43

Great moment captured. Lots of exuberance and life

ktanska (16524) 2005-11-07 2:49

Hi Curtis,
Children's joy is always great to see. And in this one also the mother is totally in the game. Symmetry works well and you were also lucky with the background.
Kari

ALSOM (6616) 2005-11-07 3:23

Hi Curtis,
Lovely moment you capture.
Such wonderful moment shared between the kid and her mum can only be true happiness.
Thanks for the joy of the day!
Al

Furachan (0) 2005-11-07 3:33

There you go, Curtis! That's what the 85 can do in skilled hands. You show wonderful control over that bokeh-addled beast here I must say. Lovely colors and the OOF is like whipped cream.
Beautiful expression captured too...
Cheers,
Francis

AmiBe (6042) 2005-11-07 5:21

Hi Curtis,
superb moment of complicity between a mother and her child.
I like the division of the picture.
A joyful shot !
Well done

zig (2450) 2005-11-07 7:46

Beautiful moment between the pair, I thought you shot it at very close to them, then I noticed that was 85mm thing. Very sharp and I liked the lights as well, and no blurr...wow.

erdna (5348) 2005-11-07 9:33

Very happy moment between mother and child. The post between them played a very nice and strong element in the picture. Well done.

Andre'

Rinie_Hoff (9332) 2005-11-07 17:40

The young girl’s laugh is really priceless! She’s enjoying it so much apparently. Nicely layered picture, Curtis, and a very nice moment. The light background is very nice, and I can see the lens is very good, very nice bokeh, and very sharp.
It’s fun, when children learn to do that for the first time, when you play with them and hide your face behind a piece of paper or something like that, and they like it still when they are a lot older, like this girl

mlopes (492) 2005-11-17 15:39

Long Time no see Curtis, how's everything? well, i just saw your last photo and i was impeled to visit your gallery! i must say, this is one of your least critiqued photos, well, a favorite to me! everything look good, the mood is great, the joy the colours the happyness.

One could talk the car... well, nothing to do about it...

Mário

maciekda (19587) 2005-11-30 13:49

very nice photo Curtis, so much joy here. i like the composition - the frame is nicely divided into two parts, but those smiles are the main reasons that i like this image, very nice work

hackman (151) 2006-01-05 13:37