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Peanut Gallery

It is a real Yawner…

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Also posted in Cusco, Peru

Peruvian Portrait

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Sometimes it happens that you stall, delay, and wait for something to happen. Sometimes you have the feeling that here are all the makings of a picture – except for just one thing that seems to be missing. But what one thing? Perhaps someone suddenly walks into your range of view. You follow his progress through the viewfinder. You wait and wait, and then finally you press the button – and you depart with the feeling (though you don’t know why) that you’ve really got something. Later, to substantiate this, you can take a print of this picture, trace it on the geometric figures which come up under analysis, and you’ll observe that, if the shutter was released at the decisive moment, you have instinctively fixed a geometric pattern without which the photograph would have been both formless and lifeless.


— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Also posted in Peru

Weathered

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This image is one of many vendedores hawking their goods and services along the streets of Cusco Peru. The take away from the interaction with this woman was that she was more street savvy than I was. It also occurred to me that the notion of survival of the fittest, natural selection and all that jazz occurs not only in the jungle, but also on the streets.

Also posted in Peru