Fishermen silhouettes Photo

Photographer’s Note

El Malecón – La Habana

In the evening, the great promenade of La Habana, known as “El Malecón”, is one of the favourite places the Habana people choose to spend their free time.
Swimming and fishing are some of the activities they do, a part of seeing and enjoying how the day ends.
The houses in front of the sea, are very hard damaged, caused by the winds and the humidity erosion of the sea. Nowadays, some of them are being restored. Having a walk by the Malecón, seeing this old houses, you can imagine how beautiful it was sixty or seventy years ago, if now even they conserve a great beauty.

Here you can see another view of El Malecón taken a few minutes before this one.

coco, MiguelP, ChristianS, P-S-I-G, singuanti, anakin, capthaddock, tiobibi has marked this note useful

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mirkott (433) 2005-11-05 7:24

Congratulation!
Nice compo, part of these buildings with sky looks more like painted.
TFS
M.

coco (27672) 2005-11-05 8:00

Hola Jaume.
La luz está en su "punto justo" y la composición es todo un acierto (la fachada marítima con todos los edificios ya antiguos y bañados por la luz, la gente que camina tocando el mar y, claro, el mar y el cielo).
Dan ganas de irse ahí.

Un saludo.

MiguelP (14310) 2005-11-05 12:20

Vaya foto bonita. Tiene alma, o al menos mi alma se siente como metida en ella. Me gusta el tono del sol reflejado en la poesía urbanística y decadente del malecón. Me gustan los hombres sobre las rocas, cada uno con su vida tan insignificante y tan importante. También me entristece ver algunas ventanas abandonadas y muertas. El punto de vista es distinto y acertado ¿no es cierto que hasta los rascacielos quedan bonitos en el conjunto de esta mágica avenida marítima?... Bueno chavalín, que muy bonita, definitivamente el caribe te sienta bien. He estado unos días liado y pasando de esto, voy a ver si me pongo al día. No te pierdas dos películas "El jardinero fiel" y "Match point". Saludos.

ChristianS (2997) 2005-11-05 14:28

Hola Jaume, very nice picture, I really like the perspective rendering an alignment of the city's colourful and blended architecture highlighted by the the setting sun. I also like the composition with the dark silhouettes of the people in the foreground and the contrast which creates a nice transition from the dark foreground to the sunlit city in the background. Well done Jaume! Have a nice weekend too!

Regards, Christian

RGatward (19737) 2005-11-06 3:59

Good PoV and lighting to catch this view of the sea front, must be the Havana Libre hotel in the background.

barrufeto_77 (25661) 2005-11-07 2:34

Hola Jaume.

Un poco como todos, que ya lo han dicho casi todo de la foto. Bonitos contrastes entre los hombre, medio en la sombra por decirlo de alguna manera y las casas dels fondo.

Saludos, Oscar

P-S-I-G (24482) 2005-11-07 15:09

Hello Jaume,
I like this sweet light very much. Good framing. You have make a really great work on Cuba. Congratulations. Best regards.
Fabrice

singuanti (15240) 2005-11-07 22:30

Hi Jaume. I'm a little surprised this one doesn't have more points. I really like it. The architecture is so beautiful in the soft light plus the people add life. Very nice one Jaume!

dipak (255) 2005-11-08 22:23

Hi Jaume,
Beautiful lightening in the background along with the dark foreground make this composition excellent.

anakin (2775) 2005-11-12 17:37

Maniiiiiii increible toma me gusta mucho, me gusta mucho la perspectiva, el cielo, las casas, la compo en si, los colores, en fin la foto en general...solo una cosa mala, y es el avion que pasa por el edificio de la derecha que hace algo de sombra al cuandrante izquierdo superior.
Buen trabajo
Well done

capthaddock (28640) 2005-12-04 15:22

Hi Jaume - the mix of colonial buildings and concrete high rises is very interesting, the low light gives a beautiful tone to the facades, the silhouettes add a nice huiman element. The only thing I would change is the blurry thing at the lower left corner, can be erased in photoshop, excellent work.

pascalmoret (1711) 2005-12-19 7:00

Hi Jaume. I like your composition, with the fishermen in the front and the buildings in the back. The colors of the buildings and the sky are really nice. I would have removed the thing that appear on the bottom left corner.
Regards, Pascal

svo555 (1028) 2006-01-10 5:51