Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Ed Blagden on July 04, 2009, 12:13:25 pm
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I shot these a couple of years back at a wedding where I was asked to stand in because the official photographer did not turn up. These are of the village idiot who invited himself and had, it seems, a jolly good time.
Africa is a good place to be mentally ill - sufferers are generally just accepted by the community for what they are, and nobody takes any notice of their eccentricities. And before I get flamed for making assumptions I do in fact know this guy, and yes he is as mad as a hatter but seems happy with his life.
Slight sharpness issue with these, I think it is a motion issue rather than focus, but I guess they are OK for the web.
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Now that's the kind of wedding photography I could learn to enjoy.
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Nice shots Ed, I like them.
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Those are nice portraits of a contented soul. If the treatment of the mentally ill in Africa is as you say, then it is a more humane place than where I live.
Sadly, I doubt that man would be very happy if he lived in most western countries.
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Those are nice portraits of a contented soul. If the treatment of the mentally ill in Africa is as you say, then it is a more humane place than where I live.
Sadly, I doubt that man would be very happy if he lived in most western countries.
I hope there are some positives there. OTOH, a few years ago when there was a refugee crisis in Bosnia/Kosovo, the media noted that diabetics in the camps usually received sufficient food and medicine to survive there. In most African refugee camps, they just died.