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Aniko Heart
{K:26503} 1/29/2008
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Much appreciation for your kind comments Dear Hussam!
Aniko :)
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Hussam AL_ Khoder
{K:79545} 1/29/2008
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Excellent! This is really well composed!
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Aniko Heart
{K:26503} 9/15/2006
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Thank you Mary.
True, want it or not... sad though as I remember the beautiful bush etc so well. And I wonder where all the wildlife have migrated to... sigh....
Upon looking at the driver, you're right, there is a resemblance to Keith Richards! :)
Warm Wishes,
Aniko :)
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Mary Slade
{K:40338} 9/15/2006
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This is so striking- the title too. The social change so common now want it or not. (I keep thinking it is Keith Richard driving!!).
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Aniko Heart
{K:26503} 9/15/2006
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Hello Renato!
No, not a different me... :) I have been commissioned to photograph many many subjects in my time and although I seem to have a certain style, and often like flowers or portraits etc, I photograph anything... and sometimes people would not believe I have been the photograper.
This image is photo-jouralism in my view, and no, you have not to be sorry for your words. I understand and agree with you.
Thank you Renato for your words. They mean a great deal to me, my friend!
Warm Wishes,
Aniko :)
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Renato Haber
{K:7328} 9/15/2006
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Hello Aniko!
Great shot with amazing colors and tones. Good work!
A different you? A different kind of image? Maybe, yes! But tell me who does not get angry when see a image like that, and someone comments that here was once a “lush sweet bush and meadows for animals”. I do! And I have the same question in my mind... Is this the so called progress?
Not a long ago, I had a chat with one friend in Brazil about Jureia, or better the Jureia State Ecological Reserve -- about 80,000 hectares; one of the **last** reservations of Atlantic forest of Brazil; landscapes of impressive beauty shelter ecosystems of rare integrity and different associated ecosystems, like sandbanks, mangroves, pluvial plains, beaches, hill top vegetation and rocky coasts...
Beautiful words and a description that can make our imagination to fly... But the so called Progress let this park to be considered in total conservation until 1987. Not anymore... Of course it is not totally destroyed; it still very beautiful (I was there something like 15 years ago). But many organizations are working hard, very hard, to preserve the most they can.
Sorry by this words, but this shot remembered me what Progress makes with the forests in my country.
Best wishes,
Renato
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Aniko Heart
{K:26503} 9/15/2006
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Thank you Dear Albert. I feel my protest is far too late, but I couldn't help shooting this so called "progress". I have no problems with the worker... he is doing his job. I do have a problem with the shire council that they allowed this to occur in a supposedly "protected nature area"... They also approved the same just a little way from this location and on a much larger scale, turning the natural bushland that had been home to our native owls and other creatures, into a horrible housing estate. Now some will say:" But people have to live somewhere", and I agree... however there are still many other "somewheres"... and those areas would not be killing off our natural bushland and native critters!
Warm Wishes as I step off my soap box...
Aniko :)
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Albert Jacobs
{K:9527} 9/14/2006
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Hello Aniko,
I think it's a good protest and put nicely on image. Strong and impressive view, specially the dust and expression of the driver work well to achive this. Welldone, my friend.
Wish you all well and see you,
Albert
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174199} 9/14/2006
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You're welcome, Aniko!:)
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Aniko Heart
{K:26503} 9/14/2006
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Yes, it is sad, Shirley.
I do thank you for your kind comments on the pic.
Warmest Wishes,
Aniko :)
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174199} 9/14/2006
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Well taken, Aniko, and I am also so saddened when I see the beautiful farmland being destroyed so rapidly to make way for more and more houses. Who is going to feed us in the future?...our farmers are going out of business.
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Aniko Heart
{K:26503} 9/14/2006
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If we "abide by the rules", Ron, I totally agree with you. This was a grab photo-journalistic shot and I make no excuses for "breaking the rules". I do apprecite your comments very much and thank you for the time to make them. Might I add, the smoke you refer to is actually dust... This is "steet sweeping"... and yes, there was a lot of dust. I have other images (about 5 or 6 I think), probably better "composed" (photographically speaking); but this one "shouts to me" very loudly!!! It is why I chose it above the others.
Warm thanks and kind regards,
Aniko :)
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Ron Wilson
{K:18362} 9/14/2006
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Great shot Aniko. The brown tones are cool. As is the smoke from the tractor. I'd like to see more on the right and less on the left though. Should be going into the frame. Regards Ron.
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Aniko Heart
{K:26503} 9/14/2006
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Many thanks, Stan, and Warmest Wishes my friend!
Aniko :)
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Stan Ciszek
{K:56854} 9/14/2006
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Very, very ipressive shot Aniko
I like it.
Best Regards
Stan
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