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The Art of Photography => Street Showcase => Topic started by: RSL on October 29, 2020, 11:47:51 am

Title: Looking Backward
Post by: RSL on October 29, 2020, 11:47:51 am
Can Tho, Vietnam, 1965
Title: Re: Looking Backward
Post by: degrub on October 29, 2020, 12:02:10 pm
makes you wonder where the family is today ...
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Post by: RSL on October 29, 2020, 12:11:22 pm
Yes it does, Frank. Here's another from the same year
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Post by: RSL on October 29, 2020, 12:18:14 pm
And another
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 29, 2020, 12:21:33 pm
makes you wonder where the family is today ...
Yes it does.

For the last two years my son has been living with a lovely Vietnamese woman (her parents are still in Vietnam.) She is very smart and an excellent influence on our sometimes scatterbrained son. She was born after the war and keeps in touch with the small Vietnamese community nearby.
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Post by: RSL on October 29, 2020, 12:23:28 pm
Good for her, and I hope her parents are well in Vietnam.

Here's another from Can Tho. These women are hod carriers.
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Post by: RSL on October 29, 2020, 12:27:52 pm
And finally, at least for now, this guy. How much do you suppose that clay block weighs?
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Post by: degrub on October 29, 2020, 10:41:40 pm
Between 110 and 150 pounds i’d reckon ;D 8)

Title: Re: Looking Backward
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on October 30, 2020, 05:47:51 am
Wonderful images, Russ. A world long before we lost it to iPhone and social media  :).
Title: Re: Looking Backward
Post by: RSL on October 30, 2020, 11:27:07 am
I agree, Rajan. We're losing the art in photography. Here's another from twelve years earlier in Korea.
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 30, 2020, 05:04:49 pm
These are wonderful images. I'd love to see more of them.
Title: Re: Looking Backward
Post by: RSL on October 31, 2020, 08:01:22 am
Thanks, Rajan and Eric. Here are a couple more from Korea in 1953-54
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Post by: RSL on October 31, 2020, 08:09:35 am
And one more from Korea in 1954. Not shot by the subject.
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Post by: Rajan Parrikar on October 31, 2020, 12:19:15 pm
Great photos, especially of the women washing clothes.

Russ, you look dashing and handsome in that photo.
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 31, 2020, 03:39:08 pm
Great photos, especially of the women washing clothes.

Russ, you look dashing and handsome in that photo.
I agree.

He probably looks much the same now, since he has the energy to get up every morning before dawn to take photos!
Title: Re: Looking Backward
Post by: RSL on November 01, 2020, 08:03:53 am
That was a long, long time ago. I'm less dashing now, but just as handsome. Ask any 80 to 90-year-old woman.