Tea Time, Feng Jing, China, 2007 by Phil Douglis

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07-SEP-2007

Tea Time, Feng Jing, China, 2007

This gracious lady showed great patience -- we trained our cameras on her for over ten minutes, without any complaint or distress. Her house is hundreds of years old. It’s colors, textures, and environmental detail adds meaning to this portrait.

Leica V-Lux 1
1/100s f/3.2 at 8.8mm iso100 full exif

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Phil Douglis		15-Oct-2007 05:01
Thanks, Patricia, for observing the importance of the environment here. I rarely take the standard head and shoulders travel portrait -- I want to say more about the person than a posing face can say. I want to tell you who they are, rather than just what they may look like. I think that by including such environmental details as we see here, and trying to portray people doing whatever they naturally do, I can accomplish this.

Patricia Lay-Dorsey		14-Oct-2007 05:14
I wonder how many years she has taken tea at this time in front of her house? Fifty or more I would guess. So we find her very much at ease here. She is not posing for you, she is merely enjoying her afternoon cup of tea. Beautiful portrait, Phil, that is greatly enhanced by the amount of background information you have included.

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