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In the center with the gray body and brown head is a Pink-footed Goose hanging with a flock of Canada Geese. The Pink-footed Goose is far from home. It breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark. Found in Bucks County PA. The pic was taken really far away and late in the day with bad light.
Salt production runs along the coast in Banskhali upazila. Coastal salt farmers come down to the field every year after monsoon.The salt production season begins at the end of the monsoon shrimp season.50,000 salt farmers cultivate in various unions along the coast of Bay of Bengal.
Salt is being cultivated in 15 thousand hectares of coastal areas of Saral, Gandamara, Shekerkhil, Puichhari, Chanua, Kathria, Khankhanabad and Baharchhara Union of Banskhali upazila.Salt is made by drying the water with the heat of the sun.Basically, this salt production season lasts from December every year to June of the following year.
There was a photo guide photographer out at Caddo Lake the same morning I was there with a documentary photographer "DPH" accompanying. The DPH was in my frame with some great light, so I documented her. There was some pretty severe lens flare on this shot which was removed to the best of my capabilities. Caddo Lake, Texas, USA, October 2022
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The question stands; why would this picture be different from a Real Estate advertisement?
Both would show a structure in an uncritical manner. The difference being -- a Real estate 'document' photo has an intent of use while a 'documentary' style New Topographics photo is a useless image. This is not semantics, but a purpose of use by the photographer at the time of making the image.
reference; Szarkowski.
Plus, "In a NT picture one cannot understand the structure without understanding the landscape and conversely."
Addendum: it is difficult for me to comprehend and subsequently digest the idea of ‘useless’ pictures being worthy of inclusion into the New Topographics genre. But I acquiesce to photography historians who are well adept in this field.
Documentary style vs. Document photo. Because it is a 'useless' image it falls into the 'documentary style' category of photography.
I present this picture to regain favor in the New Topographics community. Especially after the expressive subjectivity "stagecraft" of my previous two photos.
Green and red, the county's colours, displayed on a damaged barn. A good metaphor; we're all a bit beaten up, but still standing. Seen near Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.
A young man inspects the engine of a finely-restored MG from the late 1950s, lacking only the correct factory-style steering wheel to be perfect in my eyes! Seen in Galway Ireland at the annual classic car meet.
Two children look at a car shot by the Russian military at an exhibition of broken military equipment of the occupiers
This is my first editted image from my new project which is based on Urban Explorers. Instead of the usual taking photos of the desolation i am turning the camera onto these explorers.
Anyone that wants to come with me on an explore so i can photograph you would be much appreciated =]