The dead car & the donkey, a photo from Ouarzazate, South

Photographer's Note

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Some respect please
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'Dear donkey would you give me a ride? My car is dead' I asked.

'What a ride? You must be kidding? How many times you human have mistreated me and the animal race? You even dared to compare me to the dumbest being on earth!! Now dare you ask me for a ride? replied the donkey...

'I wish you human had some more respect against you own human race and of course for us animals. I hope you have strong legs' it added and turned away....
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Shot on the way to Ait Benhaddou. I the BG you see some ruined kasbahs.
Scan from print. PP for auto adjust.

Paolo, marieaude, Paker, AmiBe, rbcy1974, nwoehnl, fireflyz, happypoppeye has marked this note useful

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Furachan (0) 2005-06-17 4:13

I love your graphic sense here - the strong colors, the composition, the dead car, the intrusive head of the donkey. Superb, surreal, and very cinematographic in a way (think - Bagdad Cafe..." Well done indeed my friend! Francis

Paolo (41258) 2005-06-17 4:16

Nice composition Bala!!
good light, good colors, some focus problems, and a funny note!
thanks, ciao

clodreno (0) 2005-06-17 4:25

there is something very modern and curious in this image.
i like the way he looks at you, but I think it's the car that makes the image..
nice colors too..
have a nice WE

emanuela (1257) 2005-06-17 4:41

nice very nice, good feeling, great composition colour and note
ciao
emanuela

dolin (7369) 2005-06-17 5:11

Salut bala.
Excellente ta compo, tr鑚 originale.
Le cadrage est tr鑚 bien vu, bon coup d'oeil.
J'aime bien cette 駱ave verte qui donne de la couleur et cette t黎e d'穗e qui vient regarder ce que tu es entrain de faire ;)
Joli choix pour le vertical !
Bien jou�
Fred

gaby (19819) 2005-06-17 6:24

Hi Bala,
Superbe photo et funny note - c'est tr鑚 bien compos� et bien r饌lis� -
Merci
Gaby

hugolef (4913) 2005-06-17 6:28

Hello Bala
nice happy capture ! i like this dead car, the color is so happy, and the donkey !! you shoot it right. But miss a little sharpness (correct with unsharp mask)
very funny ... i like it
Regards

Albrecht (11283) 2005-06-17 6:34

Hi Bala
Very original and lovely picture. I have just posted a cow, looking into the picture... Good shot and crop.
Greetings Albrecht

Homerhomer (4080) 2005-06-17 8:25

Very good shot Bala, mostly I like the layered composition and colours, but I also enjoy the way the donkey looks at us, almost like saying "look who is the stupid one here".
Very enjoyable image.
Peter

marieaude (1196) 2005-06-17 9:00

Hello, very nice photo and typicall from this country. The color are nice too and I like the touch you gave it, like a little bit old. I love the donkeys of Morroco, there are in all place and really, poor of them, allways working. It a good friend of human, but human are not a good friend of anybody ;-(
Thanks of this sympatic photo and note.

Paker (2650) 2005-06-17 12:20

the quality of this photo is not the best but the composition is one of the best and funniest (and the note) I've seen so far on TE.
regards,
KRzysztof

AmiBe (6042) 2005-06-17 13:53

Hello Bala,
elle est bien marrante cette photo, excellent coup d'oeil.
J'aime ton cadrage avec juste la t黎e de cet 穗e curieux.
Belles couleurs, bien vu

CliffW (2381) 2005-06-17 20:17

This has such an unsual feel to it. A little posterized, which I like in this case. I appreciate the chances that you took with the more unorthodox approach. The star is the car but I do like the "I told you so" expression I am imagining the donkey having. Well done Bala.

rbcy1974 (20758) 2005-06-17 20:58

HI Bala,
Notr much time lately to check on pictures as I am on the move, but I came across this one. Wow, looks like a Diesel jeans ad poster. Very nice. Great surrealistic colours. I love the note, is it a poem? Did you zrite it yourself?
Regards
Daniel

erdna (5713) 2005-06-17 21:32

Very nice composition Bala with an interesting note. i understand from your note that you scanned it, maybe that explains the slight fuzziness.

Andre'

hdl (7035) 2005-06-18 7:53

LOL, very funny Bala! I really like your text; you have a lot of imagination. That also reflects in the picture; nice, original capture.

nwoehnl (122) 2005-06-18 17:42

Fun framing with the curious donkey poking his head into the frame. Interesting setting with the ruinous car and the desertish place in the background. Well seen and captured, Bala.

moxon (78) 2005-06-19 1:19

Funny and surreal. Even the fact that it's a bit blurred works. Nice colours. Good job.

Luko (14000) 2005-06-20 6:52

Fantastic shot for colors, composition (love the way, the donkey peers in and how you chose to leave the biggest half of the image for the sky).
It has a 70's feel, perhaps because of the muted yellow kodak like colors.

faubry (35447) 2005-06-20 7:20

amusante image que celle ci!!! couleurs tr鑚 contrest馥s, j'aime beaucoup la t黎e de l'穗e au premier plan
francine

bullabulla (3488) 2005-06-20 10:48

Tres sympa cette photo
bien prise et tr鑚 orginale!!
La note ne manque pas d'imagination comme la photo
Bravos
Laetitia.

flydragon (0) 2005-06-20 13:54

Hello Bala

this is a beautifull shot
color are perfect
and your composition also
i love this picture ;o)

very well seens

封simon封

RandomCameraGuy (3071) 2005-06-20 21:29

Now that's wierd.
And I like wierd.
So I guess I like this shot :)

It's just too bad the scan wasn't better. Very nice one ;)

tongapup (0) 2005-06-20 21:46

Oh my. I just love this shot. It's pure and simple and gorgeous. I love the colours here. Not just the colour of the car but the quality of the colours generally. I don't really have much to say except that I like it a lot. It makes me happy.

oochappan (4880) 2005-06-21 3:34

You must be a donkey to try to get into the frame, funny combination, with a curious colored car in tha background, well seen of ... ?
Greetings
Henk

nerve (10231) 2005-06-21 6:05

Hi Bala,
very humorous shot reall,,, you made an unusual, quite modern as Claude says, and a wonderful composition here..Different POV and different crop work very well together..
Great shot, congrulations.

capthaddock (28790) 2005-06-22 9:51

Hi Bala - a nice funny one, wonderful expression on the donkey. Any car that colour deserves to be dead and buried anyway.

kinginexile (2598) 2005-06-24 1:43

Can qualify as one of the weirdest shot of the month, Bala. hey, it's a compliment. I like the toy green of the car, really adds so much as a contrasting hue, you were really served with a rich combo here, and I bet you were happy that happened on your clock. It's unique after all, I hope the print is top quality, there is always some loss with scanning and resizing.

devimeuxbe (58557) 2005-07-25 15:36

Hi Bala
I didn't see this beautifull picture.
I like the frame and the face of the donkey.
This old car is incongrous here.
It's well done
Bertrand

maciekda (19895) 2005-08-20 7:57

very nice photo Bala, somehow surreal, this donkey's head is like from another story. bold compo with that empty sky - I would shoot it horizontally I guess. good stuff

nygus (8178) 2005-08-20 12:00

well, excellent colours, original framing, pleasant DOF. enough to go to favs

fireflyz (2097) 2005-08-23 13:41

Hi Bala,
Great composition and all together very well managed along with interesting (and funny!) note. Added to my favorites. Thanks for sharing..
Cheers,
Skye

Dis_Account (0) 2005-09-21 12:29

Very nice shot Bala. Love the composition. Focus is a little hazy on the car. Looks like you are being offered two forms of transport!

.....tim

ttk (130) 2005-11-11 7:45

If I correctly recognise this car it is Fiat 125. Good memories - I had one some 14 years ago.

Tomasz

happypoppeye (4819) 2007-07-19 18:20

Bala,

I've looked at this photo before and thought I already critiqued it - apparently not.

Great photo. I like the composition with the donkey poking his head in and the old green car in the background. The note really explains what your interpretation of the photo is.

Great work. It did make me smile.
John