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08-NOV-2008

Street portrait, Sousse, Tunisia, 2008

In this image, I use the street as context for an environmental portrait. I saw this woman sweeping the street in front of her house and pointed to my camera and then to her. She stopped her work and looked at me. Using a 24mm wideangle lens, I placed her on the left edge of the frame and used the rest of the frame to stress the old, stone-paved street, as well as the tidy white houses with the blue trim that is characteristic of the Sousse medina. The blue even carries through to the bristles on the broom. I chose this particular vantage point for the portrait because two streets meet in front of her house, and she stands next to the intersection.

Leica D-Lux 4
1/500s f/4.0 at 5.1mm iso80 full exif

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Phil Douglis01-Dec-2008 00:21
That's what makes this portrait "pop" -- the vivid contrast in contemporary coloration and the traditionally conservative hues of whitewash and pale blue. Thanks, Tim, for this note.
Tim May30-Nov-2008 23:37
She is so colorful amid the rest of the palette of white, blue, and gray.
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