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padre y nina


padre y nina
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Copyright: michael shalter (retlash) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 60 W: 1 N: 168] (1069)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-23
Categories: Portrait
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Exposure: f/3.5, 1/400 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-12-19 3:52
Viewed: 517
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
On Isla Amantani in Lake Titicaca, many local families
open their homes to tourists for $8/day (which includes
bed, breakfast and dinner)to supplement their meager
incomes. This man is a stone mason/fisherman with five children. The kitchen of their house has a dirt floor and no window. His wife cooks in a 3-square-meter cubicle using eucalyptus firewood and two large caldrons. All five children sleep in the same room (12 square meters). There have no running water, and their toilet is an outhouse with a splendid view of the lake.
The parents sleep in a room that doubles as a living room. Their "home entertainment center" consists of a battery-powered radio. The children walk two miles each way to and from school. Their mother tends the vegetable garden (potatoes and corn, mostly)and weaves
hats and scarves for the tourists. They have no electricity and, consequently, illuminate by candlelight. There are no locks on the doors. Our room
was spartan (by Spartan standards!) but the linens were crisp and the floor was so clean one could have eaten off it! At dinner, my daughter and I were given the only table in the kitchen...about the size of a card
table. The family of seven squatted around the eucalyptus fire in the "cubicle" and chatted softly in Quechua, frequently bursting into a muffled laughter.
They were delightful hosts! Poor as church mice, by
"gringo" standards, but happier than most gringos! So
what's "poor"?
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Hello Michael! Amazing faces! Beautiful eyes. Wonderful portrait. Very good lightness and sharpness. Well done!

hi michael
emotions expressed
good shot

tfs
jagroopsingh

Hi ther I spent a night on amantani island once also, I was very cold not even with lots of blankets I could be warm, but it is great to be there and visit new places, and meet new cultures, I loved those hats that the little girls used they use different chullos I eas tempted to buy one of those for me, but I just bought a normal and very colorful one for me and a lovely one for my father.

Tyanne

Hi Michael

Wonderful portrait! I love it!

Heart-warming and happy, this is an enchanting photo. TFS,

Martyn

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  • NecipP Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 669 W: 16 N: 404] (4722)
  • [2008-03-16 15:04]

Hello Michael a fine composition with great expressions, details look good tfs rgds Necip

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