Le penseur

[Airy]

I first thought it was a lady handling a cell phone. At processing time, I saw a very different scene. Shot across a pretty wide river (FR Meuse, NL Maas) in Verdun, France, with the Df + 105/2.5, processed with RawTherapee.

[elsa hoffmann]

Airy this is really lovely. In my opinion the old man needs to be lightened up someone to place more focus on him. For me its all about him.

[Anirban Halder]

I really like this photo. Old man, in an old building, paints have fallen off, rusty rainwater pipe, dried moss on the base of the building, lack of light on the man's face, old fashioned window -- all together creates a sense of "something is going on there". Like you were investigating and someone's watching you.

[John Geerts]

Nice capture. Reminds me of the books of George Simenon

[Airy]

Thanks Elsa, John and Anirban. The shot would have been a case for the D800. Since it is highly cropped, there is not Michael detail to be found on the man's face, so better leave it in the dark. His wristwatch is quite conspicuous and becomes the main subject (and the title could become "ultima necat"). The buildings on that bank are quite old and especially survived the 1st WW, which destroyed half of the city.
I've read several books by Simenon, most of them at a hospital (maybe the only proper literature available there). Loners were among his favorite subjects indeed, but I tend to associate him with Paris. If that had been shot at Île saint Louis, maybe...

[John Geerts]

A number of his books and some 'Maigrets' have the Meuse region as background. But I agree he is more well known of his impressionism of the 'Colour Locale de Paris'.

[Kim Pilegaard]

Nice picture. Here is a somewhat similar scene, but with a younger girl. From Nyons in France.

 

[Airy]

A number of his books and some 'Maigrets' have the Meuse region as background. But I agree he is more well known of his impressionism of the 'Colour Locale de Paris'.

I picked the wrong Maigrets then. As I said, I tend to associate Simenon with Paris, but that's a personal (not factual) association stemming from my reading a handful of books, i.e. a smaller sample. Also, equating Simenon with Maigret (as I tend) is probably wrong.

Nice one Nikea, with one major difference - to get such warm colors in Verdun, you need a sunset (as was the case). In either case, the expression does not come from the face, but from a limb.

[elsa hoffmann]

while we are talking about windows...
IQ not excellent - sorry
but the cow in the house was really funny

[John Geerts]

haha,  very nice indeed, Elsa.

[Jakov Minić]

Elsa, priceless image!

[Akira]

I rather felt something mysterious in the initial image.  It's funny that the tone of the discussion has gone rather to the fun side.

"Michael detail" could be a buzz word here. 

[Fons Baerken]

Great thread

[Fons Baerken]

film from the 80-ies

[elsa hoffmann]

thing in windows tells many many stories - and I assume we can interpret them in even more ways.