Follow Me, a photo from Podlaskie, East

Photographer's Note

"Why so many photographers today? Why this invasion?" aksed the priest seeing 5 of us - Marek (Maki), Daniel (rbcy1974), Jck (jrj), Lukasz (lukaszb) and me photographing the procession.
"Because we want to keep the tradition alive and share it with the others" was my answer.
"That is good, my son. But bring us the photos" he replied.

Orthodox Christians procession during the Easter ceremony in Drohiczyn.

pastadog, Bien, cengiz, red45, Rinie_Hoff, sengir oznaczył to zdjęcie jeko użyteczne

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pastadog (13111) 2006-04-25 3:21

Hi Jerzy - superb photo, excellent compo in mystical light/shade and elements, regards, Daniel

barrufeto_77 (28888) 2006-04-25 3:29

Hi J.

Excellent answer to the priest!!!

About the picture, the composition is great and the colors....lovely!

Rgs, Oscar

entrelec (8328) 2006-04-25 3:39

Funny story.
Nice work; this wall with different lights, this amazing purple and this kind of no perspective, like an egyptien frieze.
Nice

joel

jinju (14265) 2006-04-25 3:40

Wow, stunning work Jerzy,

fantastic moment with those superb colors and tones. The composition is so interesting, mainly I guess for the dress of the priest, which came out superbly. Im really going to be interested in seeing the photos come in over the next week or so from you guys.

Furachan (0) 2006-04-25 3:58

GREAT one, Jerzy, iconic, powerful, filmic...you name it. The boy's quizzical expression behind the priest is priceless. This is a fantastic "still" from a movie about today'S Poland, and about the past too.
Love it!
Francis

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adrost (2378) 2006-04-25 4:30

Witaj Jerzy.
Rewelacyjne ujecie.Te cienie, postaci i ten fiolet. Swietne po prostu.
Milego dnia.
adam

Paolo (41258) 2006-04-25 5:14

Hi Jerzy, beautiful shot. the contrast between the guy and the pope is amazing and well composed.
excellent focus and excellent light.
thanks, ciao

Bien (4745) 2006-04-25 5:15

Oh wow Jerzy, This is just absolutely brilliant work! The whole atmosphere of conversion is so very present, strengthened by your title. The patriarchic look on the priests face and than the little dazzled boy behind him, clearly turning his head back to this strong figure, and wondering with his puzzled look what he will do... to follow or not to follow that's the question...
I think you gave us his answer already by the way you lit the boys face, as well as the priest's and perhaps even more his guiding hand strongly wrapped across the cross shall not mislead. The tones of this very filmic, iconic scene are exquisite. Well I think your answer to his question should have been "I have come on a great mission to capture a master shot". Sabine

Zepi (22848) 2006-04-25 5:22

Salut Jerzy,
Cette fois le contraste est impeccable et la lumičre qui va avec aussi !
Jaime bien cette prise de vue de profil !
Bien encadré et mieux traité
Bien joué
A++Zepi

cengiz (3593) 2006-04-25 5:55

excellent mystic composition,
superb colors and framing
cengiz

jasmis (58631) 2006-04-25 6:22

Widzę, że kolega organizuje jakieś plenery... Szkoda, ze nie wiedziałem. Efekt na razie zachęcający. Pozdrawiam.

rbcy1974 (20758) 2006-04-25 7:21

Hello Jerzy
Nice meeting you this weekend,
What an excellent view,the kid and the priest complement each other very well here. Nicely contrasted with the background,
well done
Regards
Daniel

designsoul (17843) 2006-04-25 11:09

This is really incredible, Jerzy. A very beautiful shot with a perfect balance and absolutely stunning light and dark. Classical. Don't forget to take the shot to him! (As I shouldn't forget to send you mine, the one that is in the back of my head, mea maxima culpa!)
sasa

Polonaise (5802) 2006-04-25 12:01

Dear Jerzy
You should give them a copy of this masterpiece.
Why? Would you ask?
Because, quite possibly, they'll never have anything so fabulous in their archives.
The picture is telling million words. And the young slavic face' fella - he should have his portrait taken by you in a separate shot.
Another excellency,Jerzy

Jurek

olopez (4959) 2006-04-25 14:32

Beautiful light and good atmosphere Jerzy,
I like the touch of color in the hat.
Nice work,
Oscar

don_narayan (2014) 2006-04-25 16:34

Hej Jerzy. Fantastic shot, I like the profile view, the good light, the young man following behind. It sounds like the TE onvasion is going well.

Narayan

PeterC (2242) 2006-04-25 21:26

Jerzy,
A beatiful image i love the profiles and the lovely ligt imlluminating their faces. Superb colours and great textures. I hope the invasion was successful!
Cheers
Peter

red45 (1633) 2006-04-26 2:51

Czesc Jurek!
Jak zwykle swietne zdjecie, jak zwykle swietna historia. Tradycja. Prawie nie ma czegos takiego na wspolczesnych ulicach. Sa - telefony komorkowe, pisma dla uczennic 'Jak wkrecic swojego mena' [cokolwiek by to nie znaczylo], szpanowanie gadzetami i rozmowy o rozmowach na gadu gadu. I nagle ty wysylasz kolejne takie zdjecie. Moze jeszcze nie wszystko stracone?

blue-velvet30 (6524) 2006-04-26 3:52

Czesc Jurku!
Swietne. Piekny kadr i kolory, ale to u ciebie norma ;-)
Tradycja... u nas tez stopniowo zanika...
pozdrowienia
Dorota

jlynx (12647) 2006-04-26 4:11

Witaj Jurku,
Wyczuwam zmianę nastroju w twoich kolejnych fotografiach. Bardzo ładnie pokazany element tradycji, która w swym pierwotnym kształcie już zanika. To zdjęcie zdaje się symbolizować ten moment. Bardzo dobry kadr, świetne światło i tak bardzo znana i charakterydstyczna dla Twoich prac zdecydowana kolorystyka i kontrast.
Pozdrawiam,
Jurek

gebala (0) 2006-04-26 9:51

witaj :) to zdjecie jest rewelacyhne, podoba mi sie zestawienie kaplana z tym malym chlopcem, swietnie przypatrzone, bardzo dobra praca
pozd serd

Rinie_Hoff (9340) 2006-04-26 17:00

Beautiful, and beautiful light, Jerzy. Very well spotted moment as well. I like how the boy is following the priest with his eyes.
I hope the weekend was excellent, Aren't you going to create a theme?

riclopes (35577) 2006-04-28 4:26

Hi Jerzy,
Very humorous note along with an excellent capture under a marvellous lighting. I had a great laugh with this one. Thanks a lot,
Ricardo

yanseiler (20) 2006-04-28 5:59

Hi Jerzy,

You've got a very good light at this moment which created this nice shadow effect.

I'ts funny to see how the boy is looking at the priest.

Best regards
Yan

roamermark (1592) 2006-04-28 11:26

I have been looking through many of your shots and wanted you to know how much I love your portraits and candid shots of people. They are really wonderful. Thanks for posting.
Two great characters in this shot. Fantastic

Cheers
Mark

jrj (34843) 2006-04-29 5:53

Hi Jerzy
Hope the travel home at Sunday ended well :-)
I had a dinner with Marek, his wife and child and also Daniel at Sunday - very nice!

This photo is interesting as I think there is some slight postprocessing here that really brings out some more structure and details of the sourroundings. Good work that you was able to isolate the boy and the priest in this way.

coco (30439) 2006-05-06 8:40

Hi Jerzy.
Not only a good composition, the light and the moment when you make the photo are very interesting. Both are, for me, the most important elements of the photo.
Simple, but good.

Thanks for share.

sengir (4956) 2006-05-13 18:32

bardzo fajne zdjecie, podoba mi sie i kadr, i moment, i swiatlo, no i oczywiscie sama tematyka.

stasia (405) 2006-06-17 8:34

Swietna fotka. Podlaski klimat, niepowtarzalny, z przenikajacym sie duchem wschodu i zachodu. Mam wielu przyjaciol prawoslawnych, zyjemy tu obok siebie w swoistej symbiozie.
pozdrawiam

Theana (623) 2006-09-01 11:10

This could be a scene from a movie, really. The small boy on the left looking at the priest from the back, slightly sceptical. And the priest with his traditional dress walking on seriously and concentrated. I especially like the light with the shadows and the sunshine creating a very special effect on the priest's robe!

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