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by wendellt on Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:23 am
This is part 2 of my egypt epic
Step Pyramid and Dog
The thing on the left is a modern museum erected on the site where they found an ancient solar barge. Odly enough it is shaped like a cigar UFO
The Soviet Union's best export to the good people of the world, the AK-47 the world's most loved and preferred fully-automatic assult riffle
The great pyramid dwarfed by the nifty 12mm distortion on the 12-24DX
Mum
Pyramids have an affect on people

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by Poon on Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:45 am
Wendell,
Very nice pictures. lucky you went to Egypt.
Seems very safe now.
AK-47 is the top gun to be used to rob banks many years ago in HK.
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by cordy on Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:20 am
I love the second picture, fantastic perspective
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by Heath Bennett on Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:24 am
In the last pic - did you get the kid to do that? Love it.
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by Alpha_7 on Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:02 am
Love the images,
I really like the scale in #2 and to contrast is the distorted scale in #4 and also the pose of the guy in the for ground it great.
The closer shot of your mum #5 is good too, do you know what kind of birds were flying around ?
#6 Love the little boy, who makes a pyramid with his legs, in line with the pyramid in the background ? Co-incidence, or setup ?
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by wendellt on Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:27 am
o.k going to try something new, respondign to everyones comments/queries
Poon:
thankyou
I was lucky to go to Egypt, but my mum insisted, otherwise i would of stayed in Paris. Mum is scared to travel to Egypt she is victim to the global paranoi surrounding terrorism.
Egypt wasn't that safe, it's a pretty poor country and everytime i tok a shot i had to think first if one of the guards would stop me or be offended in middle eastern countries they don't take kindly to photographers, unless you ask explicit permission or tip them off. There was also a touist bus crash in Cairo, and some embassy closedown issue in Jordan which my mum wanted to visit to see the Red Sea but didn't
All in all i made it back in one piece and surprisingly the camera too.
Cordy:thanks second pic is best because it's biggest, the birds and vacum exhaust give it that extra quirk
Heath: i just saw it out of chance and took it, but afterwards the boy asked for a tip so i gave him 1 egyptian pound but i should have taken that opportunity to ask him to re-pose so i could get closer
Craig: i don't know what kind of birds, i was surprised to see them int he desert, it's kind of spooky.
Co-incidence regarding boy
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by krpolak on Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:16 am
Wendellt,
I will be a bit critique here. All those images are fine, but beside that I recon you lost the style from series #1. It seems to me that they are too literate. Even if they have a great composition, carefull choice of subject etc they loose freshness of the first series.
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by wendellt on Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:35 am
krpolak wrote:Wendellt,
I will be a bit critique here. All those images are fine, but beside that I recon you lost the style from series #1. It seems to me that they are too literate. Even if they have a great composition, carefull choice of subject etc they loose freshness of the first series.
Regards,
K.Polak
i agree Krystian
that's why i seperated pt 1 and part2
part 1 being more aesthetically and stylish which is my personal preference, i have much more in the series
and part 2 the quirky side, because Egypt is full of quirky contrasts as you will soon find out from my other pictures
thanks for the refreshing feedback
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