I stood on a hillside in Mangar and photographed many woman transporting bundles of firewood. The beauty of their colourful saris distracting me from some of the surrounding detail - in fact I was working on framing images to keep distracting elements from taking the focus away from these graceful women at work. And then it hit me - right there in my viewfinder was another one of the conundrums that make up my days here.
This is what I saw.
What do you mean by conundrum? Spell it out for me ;-)
ReplyDeleteFormally, I really like this image---there's a nice symmetry between the two figures and the two power towers. I like that the power towers look really delicate compared to people due to the distance between them. The exposure is really nice, and I love all the texture of the grass compared to the high-contrast figures. I also like that the power-towers disrupt the potentially nostalgic tone of the photograph. I also love the two kinds of energies symbolized in the same image (oh, is that what you meant by conundrum? I get it... I'm a bit slow this morning...). Ian and I have been going back and forth between using the fire and using electricity to heat the house during the snow, and I've done my own share of firewood hauling! Great image xo