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The Shoe Shine Boy
© LynEve
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Uploaded: 11/22/13 12:00 AM GMT
The Shoe Shine Boy
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Taken with Canon 450D at a Victorian Fête. He was very enthusiastic and had a steady stream of customers :)
The chairs look a bit out of place :) I removed some stray legs/feet from the top left whose footware was not appropriate for Victorian times :)
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.GIGIBL
11/22/13 12:05 AM GMT
Great capture Lyn bring back old memories well done
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I love these old pictures. They are so nice and bring lovely memories. Thanks.
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Nostalgic like a 30s picture..R.
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“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.”
Nice work on this "days-gone-by" photo Lyn. You really gave it that old time look.
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The thing that goes the farthest, towards making life worthwhile, it costs the least and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
This is a superb post, excellent in fact. =^..^=tigs
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography. sandi ♪ ♫
looking forward to good quality bw posts..... another wonderful capture......Ro
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let me keep my eyes open, let me see the beauty
In B/W it looks like a shot from the long gone days.
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Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
A marvellous capture of a bygone craft!...
looks good for your B&W challenge too .. ;)
looks good for your B&W challenge too .. ;)
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"Never stop photographing. It is very likely that your best photograph has not yet been captured"
A nice nostalgic image, Lyn, but the footwear you removed wasn't the only thing not appropriate for the Victorian era. A shoe shine in the late 1800's (the Victorian Era ran from 1837 to 1901) would have likely cost a few pennies to a nickel. The average man's annual salary, in the U.S. anyway, was so low that $2 for a shine would have constituted pay for a little over three weeks work. And I agree about the chairs being far too modern for the event. Here in North Dakota there's a small town that puts on a "Dickens Village Festival" every year, for the first two weeks of December. Some people in town dress up in period costume and the town bought a double-decker bus (far outside Dickens' time period) for the event, but nothing else there smacks of London in the 1840s (Dickens published "A Christmas Carol" in December, 1843). It's expensive to recreate a time period like the Victorian Era but surely wooden benches could have been substituted here. Nevertheless, your photo does the event there proud and hopefully the young fellow buffing the leather made enough money to make an upgrade to his mp3 player. -Nik
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I have taken liberty to give one cred to our dear Nik for his most instructive comment. Love this image in all respects. Please do post more pics of this event, PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In colour, sepia/BW or anyway you feel appropriate, dear friend.
SAM & SAAB
In colour, sepia/BW or anyway you feel appropriate, dear friend.
SAM & SAAB
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With all my love and respect, Marzena
The main material is great,Eve. Unfortunately, the modern stuff harms it and the frame just adds to the visual confusion.
Some judicious cloning can pare this down to the prime subjects and extend the brush and gravel to eliminate most everything else that's distracting.
Some judicious cloning can pare this down to the prime subjects and extend the brush and gravel to eliminate most everything else that's distracting.
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I like this Lyn despite what others see as problems - the charm of days gone by comes through in your treatment of material and B&W choice.
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"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower!
It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome." A.J. Balfour
Lyn, I hope that his fees have been according nowadays standards and not those of the 30's in the past century, lol.
Very good image with a nice nostalgic touch.
Regards, Cornelius
Very good image with a nice nostalgic touch.
Regards, Cornelius
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$2 a shine? I don't know how expensive that is but it's a great nostalgic image.
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would like to get my shoes cleaned like that ....
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let me keep my eyes open, let me see the beauty