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College-educated cabbage
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Jasper Goss (jasper)
![Silver Note Writer [C: 7 W: 0 N: 43]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/n-n-s.gif) (86) |
| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-05-31 |
| Categories: Daily Life |
| Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9 |
| Exposure: f/2.8, 1/8 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-06-07 6:41 |
| Viewed: 251 |
| Points: 1 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Streets are the life-blood for most of Kolkata's residents--it is where people make their daily living, or where they purchase the ingredients for a meal. A vendor sells cauliflower by a bus stop, early in the evening, hoping to complete his sales before it gets too late. Each rearragement in the position of the vegetables is an unquantifiable attempt to attract a new customer.
As supermarkets begin their relentless global push to homogenise our experiences of the diversity of food, we should not romanticise the conditions depicted here. But we should at least reflect on why the only official alternative to eaking out an existence selling food on the street is a hypermarket which will destroy this vendor's livelihood.
(reason for the title, a quote from Mark Twain: "Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education") |
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Hey Jasper,
It is a mediocre shot, the colors are drab and show too much that is not the subject and too little that is life of selling vegetables on the street. The boarder matches the background of TE, wasting valuable photo space. There is a lot of motion blur, which could have been fixed with using the action setting on your camera.
Matt
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