A title to an old song and the best title I could come up with for this shot !
I could have posted 7 or 8 picture postcard photographs from my Easter holidays, but decided to try and show some different shots too !
This is looking down from our hotel room on the seventh floor. It's shot very early in the morning and captures the hard working cleaners as they mop the sun terrace patio area of the hotel grounds.
I really like how long the shadows are and I like how you can see the little bit of 'un mopped' floor and bucket in the left hand corner.
The cleaners work really hard at the hotel and are on the go all day long sweeping and mopping the floors, keeping the hotel clean and tidy :)
Very imaginative peek into the "rest of the story" Great composition too, for all those reasons you mentioned. Love the way the worker's body is foreshortened and the shadow is elongated.
This is a fun shot, how nice to be on holiday looking at other folks working ! Great light & shade something you wouldn't have noticed on the same level !
Phil, this is a great shot..i love the composition, the shadow, pattern and viewpoint - basically everything about this one is intersting to me.. nice one.
Oh gosh, where to begin with this one - I really like it. I've looked at it several times and each time find new things to notice. So the obvious - I love the shadows and lighting, I love the patterns and I love the perspective. Then ... I really love how the shadow of the mop links the real person and their shadow with the mop stick (whatever anyone wants to call it) travelling across the picture. It creates its own angle and crosses the angle of the tiles in a really interesting way. I like that and I think I like it because the tiles themselves create their own pattern with the cross being different to the others. Does that make sense?
I think the timing of this with the elongated shadow is fabulous ... I'm wondering what this would look like turned on its side so that the elongated shadow becomes the main subject ... upright? Just a thought ..!
@gill Gill many thanks for your comments and the time you have taken to write them :)....Your comments do make sense :)
As for the idea of rotating the image 90 degrees anti clockwise...WOW ...a genius idea...I've just tried it and it works really well...I was thinking of submitting the image into our camera clubs projected images competition....I'm now in a dilemma as to whether to use your portrait / vertical suggestion rather than my original landscape shot ....Hmmm thanks :)
Great shot and an interesting subject matter - the hard working cleaners that make everyone's lives more pleasant are all too easily forgotten! The perspective, colours, composition and light are all superb!
Oh I'm glad that rotating it worked ... I thought it might. Interesting dilemma regards the projected image evening ... I think I would go with the rotated version because it's different. But that's just a personal opinion obviously - and who am I to say??? ;)
Funnily enough, having suggested you rotate this, I attended a wonderful camera club evening on Tuesday where people did presentations of their work. One guy showed a shadow image of two people and had rotated ... ha ha!! I grinned knowing I'd suggested this to you!!!! The timing was brilliant, but it showed me how well it works!
I think the timing of this with the elongated shadow is fabulous ... I'm wondering what this would look like turned on its side so that the elongated shadow becomes the main subject ... upright? Just a thought ..!
nice work fella.
As for the idea of rotating the image 90 degrees anti clockwise...WOW ...a genius idea...I've just tried it and it works really well...I was thinking of submitting the image into our camera clubs projected images competition....I'm now in a dilemma as to whether to use your portrait / vertical suggestion rather than my original landscape shot ....Hmmm thanks :)
Funnily enough, having suggested you rotate this, I attended a wonderful camera club evening on Tuesday where people did presentations of their work. One guy showed a shadow image of two people and had rotated ... ha ha!! I grinned knowing I'd suggested this to you!!!! The timing was brilliant, but it showed me how well it works!