School Days in Mennonite Country

The author has 3 nice photos in this photo essay although his concerns in the last part are something to think about – is it an invasion of privacy and immoral to take these photos? I don’t think so, but I thought the photos could have been much better if the author had been able to photograph the kids from the front instead of shooting their backs and arousing suspicions.
Street photography is almost always difficult and add to that, on a “lonely country road” I can’t imagine any kids who’d stop to have their photograph taken by a stranger..

House Guest

Yesterday morning I helped Owen bring some stuff in from his car and when I turned around to close the door a cat was sitting outside the porch looking in curiously at us!
He purred with pleasure as I rubbed him, and when I came home later he was curled up in a ball on the doormat!
He disappeared this morning into the garden and beyond so I don’t know if I’ll see him again. If he’s back this evening I’ll check with the neighbours if they recognise him.

Post Processing by Sam Javanrouh

Here’s a write-up by the author of daily dose of imagery on how he “fixed” an image of a grain silo. What he did is admirable because there was very little contrast in the original photo. I wouldn’t have manipulated the sky so much(I’ve done it myself, so I recognise an attempt to bring out detail that just isn’t there!) but the silo and water is a great photo!