Summer in Town n.10 by sandra46
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A shot taken from the balcony of my kitchen: two Chinese people in front of a Chinese take-away for Chinese customers, with typical food you usually don't find in the Chinese restaurants and take-away meant for Italians. Here the different plates are closer to the local taste. In our region it was an easy task: we are serious producers of rice, chicken and pork meat, and we have many recipes with rice as a side course or first course. But the Chinese restaurants and take-away suffered a terrible slump during and after the Asian chicken-flu scare, even if they bought the raw food here in Italy. A perverse consequence of globalized media. So many have changed into Japanese sushi take-away (run by the same Chinese people, of course). We have only a couple of real Japanese chefs in Padova.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Comments (51)
Amarillis
So creative and interesting. Love the PoV
Radar_rad-dude
Interesting scene and descriptive, Sandra! An excellent photo with a fine POV!
artistheat
Excellent Image and POV
flaviok
è fascinante minha amiga, captura magnifica, aplausos (5)
MagikUnicorn
LIKE THIS
UteBigSmile
lyron
Cool capture!!!
tofi
I do like the effect on this one! A great candid image and an interesting POV!
mairekas
Cool image, POV & postwork!
1358
curious... here in the Canadian prairies, just about every small town has at least one Chinese Restaurant... a holdover from when the railways were built in the 1870' and 1880's and a lot of labourers were chinese... they stayed, and became a part of the community... in Europe it's a bit of the same...
Chipka
I love the perspective in this shot, and the normal, regular, every-day humanity that I can see here (the guy is kinda cute!) and the both figures and the environment are stunningly captured here. I love the POV and the slight magenta tint. This is iconic in so many ways, too: it looks urban in a way that could mean it's from Padova, Prague, New York, Chicago, Moscow, or anywhere else with Chinese carry-out/takeaway, depending on which side of the Atlantic you live on. You captured the moment perfectly! I love this photo.
psyoshida
I love being close to a good Chinese restaurant. I have a great one near by but not that close. Lucky you. I solve the chicken problem by never eating meat to begin with. :) Wonderful shot from your kitchen. I'm enjoying your series.
Minda
stunning capture sandra.
art-digital
ta galerie est magnifique
mickeyrony
I thinks this guy is much looking at her legs lol , Nice pic and your work tell different stories like ((5++))
JuliSonne
精彩...
twelvemark21
Really a lovely capture, POV is excellent!
junge1
Great capture and very interesting information Sandra!
Marinette
è interessante la rielaborazione fotografica. :)
A_Joker_B
Great capture!
anahata.c
Sandra, I realize that the next time I will do a bunch of your non-archaeological offerings, not because I didn't love those (I did!), but because I haven't done your other work for a while. So having but one pic left this morning, I am hard-put to find one that can even remotely represent all you've done as a photographer. I chose this because I remember feeling, last year, that it had a Cartier-Bresson feel to it. If this was from your window, I assume you only had a moment to capture this. Your 'street cred' shows...you caught, quickly, a woman looking into a window, alone; a "divider" of a street grill; and then a young man sitting on a bicycle, facing perpendicular to her. Are they together? If they are, all we know is they are 'placed' together by the shot. Cartier-Bresson did this beautifully, among others. A simple juxtaposition of two people who may or may not be connected...And fascinating rhythms in the young man's stance, one arm behind him, drinking, perched over a wheel, maybe sitting on some support. And not looking at the woman, though facing the same direction...And the window provides a geometric background. And you've darkened the scene with those violet hues, which make what's inside the window a big mystery. The light on the window-top (with the phone number and name) is another geometrical accent to the already geometric layout of the shot. (Even the two people are at right angles to each other.) A very photographic image, Sandra, and with real mysteries. And while I say this isn't an archaeological piece, there seems to be a connection, perhaps in the juxtaposition of cultures, seen in these two people so close yet far apart. From the visual standpoint, it's wonderfully seen. I love it. Well, I'll be stepping down after today, so when I return I hope to be back here with more endless comments, lol, and I wish you great inspiration and insight in all you do in the interim. Grazie, this is an amazing gallery...