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No interpretation needed, he is old and poor!
No interpretation needed, he is old and poor!
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Challenge: Poverty (Basic Editing I)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Location: Seoul, Korea
Date: Oct 23, 2004
Aperture: 1/125
Shutter: 3.25
Galleries: Urban, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Oct 25, 2004

 cool fall day, old man sitting next to a downtown subway station. cultural intolerance is his biggest enemy.

Statistics
Place: 15 out of 171
Avg (all users): 6.3025
Avg (commenters): 6.4375
Avg (participants): 6.0241
Avg (non-participants): 6.4026
Views since voting: 1888
Views during voting: 440
Votes: 314
Comments: 19
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 08/31/2005 11:53:17 PM
He looks so resigned to his fate. Almost as if he has accepted it and is just waiting for it to end to go on to somewhere better.
Very sad, but very good capture.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/02/2004 05:21:42 PM
yes yes, this is good.
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 11/02/2004 07:42:49 AM
The background needs blurred more, and a crop showing the rest of him would be better.
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 11/01/2004 07:15:12 AM
What an interesting face this guy has, its a shame you could not have moved more around to show of it.
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 10/31/2004 09:37:15 AM
Poverty doesn't just mean being "without money." The old are often rich with wisdom. His shirt looks new, not raggedy, and his basket isn't that torn and bad either. The typical person asking for such handouts in the US makes an average of $50 a day...some - in more affluent cities, make up to $500 a day.
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 10/30/2004 09:19:04 PM
nice colors. Nice picture
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 10/30/2004 04:19:29 PM
I wish we could see more of his face, I think it would have had more impact.
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 10/30/2004 03:43:10 PM
What? I know this guy. He's one of Sony's executives. Every weekend he takes a basket of Sushi to the park to feed the pigeons. :-) Good shot.
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 10/29/2004 05:09:53 PM
If only the people in the background were omitted. The age, expression and clarity of the man was right on. This might ribbon.
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 10/29/2004 04:13:36 AM
this had the makings of a great capture, but the cropping kills it. if you had backed off enough to get the whole basket, it would have been a much stronger shot.
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 10/28/2004 03:28:10 AM
This is by far one of the better submissions. My only negative comments are the spot on the hair, and on the ground that are a bit over exposed. The fact that you were williing to get near eye level, and not take this from a standing position, does alot for this picture. Good shot.
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 10/28/2004 12:49:05 AM
Great portrait.
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 10/27/2004 08:56:21 AM
I've realized that, for me, a good poverty shot is incredibly sad
good representation of the challenge
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 10/27/2004 07:46:56 AM
Powerful image, shows poverty. I would however have cropped out the right side instead of framing him right in the center.
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 10/27/2004 06:18:51 AM
And alone, which is a poverty even worse than the monetary kind.
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 10/27/2004 01:15:27 AM
this is a lovely image and you should be proud of it. I have one critical comment wht on earth did you crop so hard on the bottom of this image? I think you should have left all the bowl plus more in .THIS IS HERE THE IMAGE IS AND SPEAKS.
it really frustrates me GRRRR!!!!!
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 10/26/2004 10:17:03 PM
I think you got a bit too close, I would like to see more at the bottom, atleast under his hand. Otherways it's good.
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 10/26/2004 09:30:16 PM
The people in the background, while useful for context, are distracting to the actual subject of the photo. This is well captured however, and i like it better than many others i have seen so far.
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 10/26/2004 09:17:51 PM
thats a mean title
but a good subject
could've been framed better IMO
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