BLExcellent,this one is a master class.
Glad you like it. I am trying to find enough old images worthy of this site. As you can see I am trying to post a new image daily to help us all over the world fight this invisible enemy.
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BLExcellent,this one is a master class.
The story is as good as the portrait.#7C
Dusting off the Hard Drives
This one was taken way up in a remote corner of the Atlas mountains in Morocco. It all happened while my wife and I were visiting the house of a village elder in an ancient Berber community. All of a sudden my iPhone chimmed with a message from Verizon that for $x.xx per day I could connect. Well my reaction was to look at the phone and it was only then that from the surprised expressions on their faces that they had never seen a mobil phone since they had only 3 walls of what should be a 4 wall house (one wall was actually the mountain cliff) and no electricity. As it turned out this was the chance to use the phone's camera. So I took a photo of my wife and passed the phone around for all to see in amazement. Then this young woman sitting next to my wife wanted her photo taken. Well you can imagine after 10 minutes everyone was posing and looking at their own images. Everyone was laughing and in a very good mood. I had not yet taken out my Fuji cameras, but after asking the male elder if I could take his image the entire house was wanting an image taken of them with the Fuji. Why you might ask? It turned out a had a small, portable Fuji printer with me and after printing out the male elders photo for him to keep all the women also wanted their own photo. Soon the entire village was clamoring for an image. I gave out so many small prints that morning after changing to the spare printer battery I ran out of prints after 50 prints. So this woman posed for me in her own way since we could not communicate with her. The black back drop is actually the rock cliff behind her making for the perfect studio and the light behind me came from not having an outer wall to block the natural light. Sorry this got so long.
Thanks for the kind comments. Trust while cocooned at home this makes it less stressful.You should dust off your hard drives more often!
Lovely stuff.