Pipe fragment Photo

Photographer’s Note

I admire MidlleEasterners attachment to their ethnicity.
In a way this is the value which keeps the world from being flat :).
It's amazing that even in the small student apartment, they can hold bunch of exotic national attributes.
so...at my Jordanian friend apartment in the corner sitting dusty Egyptian pipe "gooze", strong lights and shadows making it mystic , it looks like in some Bedouin tent.
I shoot a fragment of the scape and the rest of it I got on the shadow :)
P.S.
Isn't it a paradox, that to grow up tobacco in Egypt is illegal, but they have so many pipes :).
My be this pipe isn’t quiet innocent object, but to me, it’s just some exotic, crafty piece.

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fotofreak (1677) 2003-11-24 19:04

I really like how you left it up to us to create the whole image of the pipe. This image is very creative with the great use of shadows. Even the cob webs are effective. Nice story to go with it too!

pcostas (308) 2003-11-28 3:34

I will comment a little bit this one, cause we had an almost same idea for a composition with a week's difference!

Well to make a long story short:
- i like the clarity and the colours of the photo. The isolation of the top and bottom part is interesting. The idea with the shadows works!
- what does fit right is that on the left you have too much empty space. Also since you chose this angle, the shadows should start either exactly after the sisha tube (there is a small zone at the right). Also the right part of the photo with the blue tube doesn't quite fit with the composition!
- finally i notice the way the top part, which is not visble, seams to be "broken" of the shadow lines....