Kung Hei Fat Choi ! Photo

Photographer’s Note

恭喜發財!
Kung Hei Fat Choi !
Gong Xi Fa Cai !
Chuc mung nam moi !

Wishing you all Happiness and Prosperity for a Happy New Year of the Rat !

This praying scene is taken from a secondary temple of the landmark Six Banyans complex in Guangzhou, the horrible sky and associated light pushed me to play with aging techniques, the little noise in the sky has been intentionally added.

snunney, TopGeo, sleon, ChrisJ, marknunnerley, cbrman, Budapestman, ahaberal, Floydian, gneufeld, kevinos, alainh, Didi has marked this note useful

Critiques | Translate

TopGeo (21797) 2008-02-07 1:46

Hi Have J+Y excellent B&W shot!here a picture from China with cheerful atmosphere for the New Year and my own Wishes I like the Temple and the interesting scene
Georgios

snunney (34884) 2008-02-07 1:47

Hello Jean-Yves,
I think the sepia treatment works well, producing an image with a timeless quality despite the tourists in their western clothes. Good point of view and very appealing tones and clarity.

sleon (9352) 2008-02-07 1:49

新年好，给你拜年啦！

祝JY: 鼠年，万事如意，身体健康！

Susanna

Paolo (40703) 2008-02-07 2:00

Hi Jean Yves...it sounds as a minace!
Kung Hei Fat Choi !
Gong Xi Fa Cai !
Chuc mung nam moi !

let's go away or i use
my kung fu!
;)
good one, with a good work of PP, and excellent POV too.
every morning i did breakfast in a bar close to by office, and the owner is a chinese family so i well know that in this days there is the New Year for them. and not only, in this day there is also the Carnival in Milan (one week later than the rest of the world), so today the children of the owners wer dressed with mask for carnival and were also celebrating a new year!
ciao

ChrisJ (70231) 2008-02-07 2:01

Salut Jean Yves

And a Happy Year of the Rat to you, too, JY! I like the sepia tone here. I stayed on Shamian Island, & didn't see much of Guangzhou, so thanks for sharing. Bon travail!

marknunnerley (2768) 2008-02-07 2:29

Nice pp Jean Yves. When I was at college it was amazing how you could rescue a shot by going the b&w route. The sepia type tones work well and the noise helps to give it that film look.
Best regards,
Mark

cbrman (18849) 2008-02-07 2:44

Hello Jean-Yves,

Eh bien en voyant la vignettte, je n'ai pas du tout reconnu ton style ! Et pour cause ! Une vue en sépia inhabituelle venant de ta part !
Le grand angle t'a permis de saisir ce temple en intégralité depuis un point de vue relativement proche !
Bonne année du Rat à toi aussi ! ;-)

A+

Dominique

aadilj (17950) 2008-02-07 2:54

Hey thats so uncharacteristic of you to post this sepia! nevertheless its lovely and very well composed indeed. On second thoughts there are no colours to distract!

Budapestman (41920) 2008-02-07 3:01

Hi Jean Yves,
Beautiful shot with very attractive composition, I like the atmosphere and the splendid atmosphere, excellent daily life shot. Have a nice day
George

ahaberal (6455) 2008-02-07 3:15

hi jean
beautiful image and colors.Wonderful composition.Well done.TFS.
asim

MarcT (21099) 2008-02-07 3:17

Salut Jean-Yves,
Cela change de tes images éclatantes de couleur mais le petit côté rétro n'est pas déplaisant.
Tu parles chinois aussi, maintenant?
Cheers
Marc

ktanska (16581) 2008-02-07 3:29

Hi Jean-Yves,
Even you give a change for B&W when faced with this view of traditions (next to concrete block). Well done sepia toning. I could bet the colours were boring. Noise looks quite convincing, no signs of sand like sharpness that digital noise usually has.
Kari

Floydian (30970) 2008-02-07 5:53

Hi Jean Yves,
Interesting colour toning, not something we might expect on such an image but for for me it works pretty good. It gives a kind of nostalgic feeling to it which suits the picture very well....nice work.
Regards, Henk

Cormac (26449) 2008-02-07 8:31

Happy New Year to you too! The year of the Rat. Where I live (Vancouver) there is a very large Chinese population (something like 30% of the city) so today is a big day. Nice vintage feel in this photo, which seems to have been made 50 years ago. Well done!

gneufeld (15169) 2008-02-07 11:43

Hi Jean,
Interesting shot appropriately presented in a sepia perspective. Good details and interesting activity. Well done and TFS. Gerald

kevinos (6927) 2008-02-07 16:24

This one has a lovely retro feel to itJean Yves and is just right to mark the entry of the year of the rat. It is intesestingly diffrent from your usual images ,byt just as enjoyable . Regards kevin

alainh (35367) 2008-02-07 23:01

salut Jean Yves
tu es dans le genre qui percute ! tres bonne idée et une bien jolie carte pour le moins d'actualité. tres bonne idée, et realisation, et je m'associe à ce souhait si tu le permets !
amicalement
alain

MarianneS (14266) 2008-02-07 23:48

Bonjour Jean-Yves,
Ce que j'aime le plus dans ta composition, c'est la façon dont les gens semblent subjugués (et on peut le comprendre) par le spectacle qu'ils ont sous les yeux.
Je serais tout de même curieuse de voir les couleurs de ce temple...
Cordialement,
Marianne

RGatward (19737) 2008-02-08 8:16

Hi JY, unusual shot for you (well, still not checked out your recent portfolio), N&B give an appropriate timeless quality to the scene, mmm, need to think abuot the caligraphy, but makes it look a bit like an old Mao era postcard.

tcht (7298) 2008-02-08 17:23

Happy new year JY,
wish you and family good fortune and good health! A fine sepia conversion here with nice atmosphere.
Cheers!
Cheuk Hin

Didi (36090) 2008-02-09 10:08

L'honorable Terreur a bien fait d'utiliser le sépia, cela donne un résultat intéressant.
Ma parole mais tu causes Chinois ! Tu dois utiliser un clavier à mille touches :) Je me demande comment ils font pour inclure tous les idéogrammes dans un clavier.
Merci pour tes voeux, je suis un rat
Tchin Tchin !

Nolme (5290) 2008-03-03 1:46