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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Twenty One: The Marketplace -- crossroads of a community. > Shoppers, Mercado de San Juan de Dios, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2005
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02-NOV-2005

Shoppers, Mercado de San Juan de Dios, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2005

Bundled against the chill of a November morning, a couple makes their way along the truck lined streets surrounding this vast marketplace. This image puts the “place” in the market. The air is cold, the road is rough, the trucks and big and numerous. One gets the feeling that these people have done this before, many times over. They walk with a familiar attitude that tells us they know what to expect when they get there. I used a telephoto focal length of more than 300mm to reach out and compress the rows of parked trucks, making the crowded road seem even busier.

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Phil Douglis15-Nov-2005 18:14
I instinctively wanted to crop it out myself when I first saw this picture. Then I looked at the picture again, and saw how that blurred red fender extended the thrust of the mass of cars that lined the road, and how it gave the image a greater sense of depth than it might have had without it. And so I did not crop it.
monique jansen15-Nov-2005 15:17
I would have cropped of or tried to eliminate the red car
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