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Above all i like to shoot pictures of humans. In lack of them, or in lack of anything given by them that might be interesting, i rather choose not to shoot than shoot dull people; people like i met in this little town just over Dubrovnik. There were a few silly fat tourists that had come in this beautiful little town. We met with them while we were in search for some place to eat. First the town seemed to be like a ghost town, no living soul on the street, it almost gave me the creeps. Then Luke, found this place where we took sandwitches that were very expensive and the brad was supposedly left over from the last summer- it was like biting a piece of wood. But the waiter, i suppose she was the owner of the place, was polite. She tried to keep those silly old red faced sallami like and old farts who were constantly blabbering and talking nonsense, asking innumerable nonconsistant questiones to the three of us, in failed fashion of french, german and english language-- and one of them, an old 'lady' with a tiresome sentiment for peace,talking about how nice she felt to meet new people getting along together, like the three of us; a concept that is really annoying expecially when peace is perceived as an imperative for the modern man; and the waiter she figured us being utterly bored by their pointlessnesses of giving mature lectures; she apologised very dearly. At the spot i just did not feel like taking any photograph of theirs, but rather bow my head and mind the wooden sandwitch. I took this shot with a burnt piece of wood on a very nice empty beach, for a reminder--
Thanks a lot for the info on the taking of the image, Visar! Indeed less shadow/plasticity but your good camera/lens system got all possible details out of it, which more than compensated for that.
I know that kind of hypocricy and prejudice, Visar! It's the favorite game of the uneducated that would believe anything the local papers say. In Switzerland it is the same by many too many people. All problems of the little sweet world of such mediocre minds, a world that ends somewhere at the fence of their gardens, of course go back to Kosovars that live here, because - didn't you know? They are all such bad guys, and steal and kill, and all the like. And of course they all come here to take our peace and bloody wealth away. (Which Switzerland keeps on stealing from other countries by misuing the bank secrecy, but that's of course another story because it is legal thieving! ;-)) And if it is not the Kosovar, the it is the Arabs. And if it isn't the Arabs, then it is the Serbs, the Turks, the Italians, the whatever else. Only *we* are good, the rest is no good! ;-) And if all "other guys" leave the country then there are enough other groups of the own people to consider as the "the bad guys". Hmmm, any resemblance to fascism is of course only incidental! ;-)
Well, mediocre minds will never stop doing that, Visar! They don't care to read history, to understand another culture and its people, to really communicate. They just appear as tourists somewhere for, say, two weeks, they take a look around, and they know then everything about the land. Automatically. It goes zak-boom and knowledge and culture jump immediately into their minds. No need to work for that! ;-) Oh, and of course *our* "culture" is better than yours because we have bigger cars and luxury houses, ey? ;-) And this gives us the right to treat you so arrogant. ;-)
Just be as sharply ironical to those limited minds as it takes, Visar. And hey, you can always have some real satiric theater plays with them, even if they don't know what role they play ;-) I am sure, you let them know at the epilogue! ;-)
Hmmm, tonight I'll pay a visit to the iranian take-away some steps from my place here. How very strange! There are loads of guys there, workers, students, anything, coming from everywhere on this world, and I am there so often, and still I wasn't assasinated by some of all those bad guys! Strange that we all have so much fun together there. :-/
the light condition was not that good, or not how i would prefere. But, there's something about this kind of light conditions, that one may get details on entire frame. but there's no shadow play for a more attractive presentation. On the other hand, the reason i got those details i think is because of the lense i have, which is a Canon 28- 135 IS, USM-- is producing really good results.
regarding those people, I really had my great part that day. Two of them were Germans, the others were locals (not too sure whether they were croats, serbs or bosnjaks- as i cannot really tell, for the language they speak sounds much the same to me, and i cannot say variations- I only know there is a few). One funny thing was they began talking about Albanians, supposedly that was their topic prior to our arrival (those days Kosova had gotten independence, and now that ex Yu that once was is dismanteled almost completely), and then they were talking about the three of us, how young people are looking, behaving, what values are we embracing and much provintialisms of that kind. As we paid the bill, and were about to leave, they insiting in knowing where from France were we coming from! Only then i let them know, in my broken serbo-croato-bosnjak language, that i am not from France but Kosova. And it felt, really great seeing their faces decompose and blush and too uneasy, for they instantly knew that i was fully aware of their talk about us. Only that they never understood what were we talking about them!
in addition, there is planty of times i get to face hypocrisies of this kind- and the 'fights' i get into are fun and a prefered field. so, yeah, devestate them. turn them woods to useless ashes.
dear Michele, thanks for comment. Yes, it is evident the tilt- i think it does need that adjustment- i should have been more careful ey! thanks again, v.
Hello dear V. I like this image .. . it's depth , the forground, natural colors , it's all beautiful just one thing IMHO to improve a bit would be to straighten the horizon a slight tilt - then perfection !!!
Hey dude nice shot of the beach with nice colors and details
As far as the annoying people are concerned I would advice you just to ignore them all the way cause there is nothing that you can do to make them more smarter than they are :)
A good one, Visar, that really matches that kind of wanting to escape those mindless spectres of human presence. It just has that kind of "tief breath and look away" that you describe, when wanting to just get rid of what they say. The details and the balance of light are very good, and I guess that it was not a very "willing" light. Especially the fact that you still caught those turquoise tones of the sea on the middle right of the image is impressive to me. Normally we get such tones only under direct sunlight, but here it must have been less strong, I guess? (I see those diffuse clouds.)
As about that kind of wannabe "cultivated conversations", coming from "old ladies" and similar mediocre minds who never cared to read and think of anything, while they were bringing "culture" in their living rooms by buying expensive nonsense.. well, I know them and I find them so amusing! I really have my fun by ironically exposing their empty brain to them.
We have them in public lectures too, that they visit in order to demonstrate their "active spirit" by asking completely stupid questions that have nothing to do with the subject. But so they demonstrate "participation"! Some days ago such a "sir" was asking me such questions after a small lecture I had about the latest proceedings in category theory. Well, that dummy thought that the lecture room would be more "cultivated" by his additional description of the taste of luxury food and the like. I had to tell him with a good smile that the people that have real interest in mental questions usually don't even care what they eat. They care what they think. He asked me then, just to demonstrate that interest too, what the "use of such mathematics" is. I told him, the use is to convert him from his current state to a thinking human being. Ooooh, was he insulted, that dummy, and was I happy to see him leave my lecture room. Such a fun, I tell you!
Cheers! And devastate them wherever you find them! They are good for your amusement!
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