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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Twenty Three: Stirring emotions through atmosphere and mood. > Sweeping shopkeeper, Essaouira, Morocco, 2006
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10-DEC-2006

Sweeping shopkeeper, Essaouira, Morocco, 2006

It is just past dawn in this ancient port city, and the shops are beginning their day.
I saw the flow of light on the street, an illuminated path of cobblestones running between the morning shadows. I waited until a shopkeeper stepped into that path with his broom and then made this photograph. All attention is placed on the man with the broom. An atmosphere of quiet privacy greets him. The shadowy passersby do not even see him, just as we do not see them.

Leica V-Lux 1
1/400s f/7.1 at 17.9mm iso100 full exif

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Phil Douglis13-Jan-2007 02:24
It is interesting how an image based on the past -- old buildings, cobbleston street -- can suggest the future. It's the long path of light that flows so deeply into the picture that makes it do that. Thanks, Tim, for this thought.
Tim May13-Jan-2007 02:20
Cleaning the way into the future.
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