Full of Life

Posted by GJC (Kyoto, Japan) on 23 September 2011 in People & Portrait.

This young girl and her older brother were very happy to show me all the mischief they could do in the rice fields (they live in the house behind this grand old wall, a wall that I highlighted in an earlier post.). I took a number of photos, but I thought this one seemed to capture their spirit of fun the best.

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Comments (11)

Riccardo from Rome, Italy

Great one!

23 Sep 2011 6:46am

Hiro from Kyoto, Japan

Nice capture under the beautiful lighting.

23 Sep 2011 6:55am

Ronnie 2¢ from Atlantic Shores, United Kingdom

Love the intensity and power of this . . and, of course, your signature greens.

23 Sep 2011 8:45am

@Ronnie 2¢: Thank you. Yes, gotta have green!

Ian Smith from London, United Kingdom

Ah, kids can find fun in everything. How great it was to have such free time :-)

23 Sep 2011 12:54pm

@Ian Smith: Indeed, but we didn't know that then, did we. But it was nice to see them enjoying themselves so much, and so eager to share with me.

Ellebelle from Medemblik, Netherlands

Great lines and colours!!
You can make this picture more interesting by cutting off some of the left, right and upper (just under the black horizontal line and above the child's head) side. Like that all the disturbing (my opinion ;-)) objects will be left out .........

23 Sep 2011 4:59pm

@Ellebelle: Thanks for your thoughtful suggestions. Actually, I kind of like what you see as the disturbing objects. That old wall and the tiles across the top tell me of many other childhoods spent running through the rice fields. But everyone sees a photograph differently, and I suppose that's what makes it all so interesting. Thanks for sharing your vision.

ordinaryimages from Kentucky Bluegrass, United States

Warm all over! best…jf

23 Sep 2011 6:06pm

Eric Cousineau from Sherwood Park, Canada

Rich warm light in this beautiful shot GJC! Nicely captured! ;-)

23 Sep 2011 10:53pm

@Eric Cousineau: Thank you very much.

Barbara Kile from Ft. Worth, United States

Lovely golden light!

25 Sep 2011 2:23pm

Steve Rice from Olympia, United States

I wish I had her energy. A lovely shot with that glowing wall behind her.

26 Sep 2011 2:44am

john4jack from Corvallis, Oregon, United States

This is outstanding!

26 Sep 2011 6:35pm

Manola from Bassens, France

a well chosen for this shot while dynamic with this little boy happy to show you.; life !!!;-)

27 Sep 2011 9:27pm

next day →

Nikon D300
1/200 second
F/6.3
ISO 200
66 mm (35mm equiv.)