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Commute of the balloon seller

Commute of the balloon seller

Posted by Scotfot (Kabul, Afghanistan) on 2 June 2008 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.

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saeed from ahwaz, Iran

i like colourful balloons and light and shadows! well done!

2 Jun 2008 5:23am

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

I love the shadows and the way the colourful balloons are floating in the wind :)

2 Jun 2008 8:10am

@Lorraine: I was so focussed on the light through the balloons I missed the shadows :-)

Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal

Surreal... :)

2 Jun 2008 4:46pm

@Ana Lúcia: You go out looking for the surreal and never find it... then it passes on a bicycle and you nearly miss it!

Marie-Hélène Ammor from Casablanca/Paris, Morocco

It's beautiful ! The silhouettes of sellers, shadows of bikes and rays of light in the colors of balloons!

2 Jun 2008 8:03pm

Namaki from Bordeaux, France

I agree ! It IS beautiful ! the light rays striking the balloons and the nearly black and white tone of the rest of the picture ! surreal indeed !

2 Jun 2008 10:00pm

MaryB from Staffordshire, United Kingdom

I love your images of the balloon sellers. This is no exception. Fantastic light and shadows too.

3 Jun 2008 12:55am

Michael Rawluk from Prince George, Canada

The light streaming in onto the balloons is what makes it for me.

4 Jun 2008 5:42am

Anita from West Nottingham, United States

The light was just right for this one. Good job!

5 Jun 2008 1:26pm

Natalia from Louisville, United States

Great photography!

11 Jun 2008 7:40am

Fliss from Melbourne Beach, United States

Another great one...

16 Jun 2008 6:43pm

Benoit Darrieux from Clermont Ferrand, France

I and my girlfriend Emilie spent months in Afghanistan in 2007 and we appreciate to look at your pictures. Your portraits are nice, Emilie likes very much your pictures with balloons sellers, great mix of kabul and childhood. It seems you are living soon, so good luck for the future, and who knows, inch'allah, we will have the opportunity, in the futur, to take pictures together!

6 Sep 2008 7:22pm

@Benoit Darrieux: Hi Benoit and Emilie, many thanks for your very kind comments. I've now left Afghanistan and back in Scotland - though I'm sure I will return one day - as I have many friends there now! Plenty more images to come!

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