Christmas is coming soon. The marvelous festival views could be seen everywhere.
And …
I met this view on the way home …
Isabella (Naples Daily Photo)shared with us a good saying :
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”– Calvin Coolidge
Thanks, Isabella, we need to share our happiness with the poor either!
Eric from Paris, Carlos from Barcelona, Lisi from Hongkong, Macky fron Toyko all posted the same theme photos before….check and watch their wonderful shots!! (thats what i still remembered. sorry, if i missed yours~~ tell me please!!) Here is the big photo.
This is a powerful photo and a great reminder of what Christmas sprit should be … I have technique question. How did you get the stretched effect? Where the lady in the top left is taking such a long step and the tree on the right binds. Is this a special lens?
Very thoughtful with a very powerful photographic expression.
All the best!
It’s very sad isn’t it? The guy walking by doesn’t want to stare but doesn’t know what he can do. So many thoughts and questions go through your mind when you see something like this doesn’t it?
There’s something incredibly powerful about this person’s position. It’s as though all dignity and hope is lost.
I probably would not have been confident enough to capture the image.
Firstly, I am honored that my quote made an impression on you and you found it worthy to accompany your powerful post today.
Out of all your wonderful photos to date - this one really stands out. The subject matter, just in time for Christmas and your technique (the fish-eye look and the B&W background with the homeless person in color) is absolutely striking and should be published to a broader audience.
As far as addressing the subject of homelessness - we each have to reach inside us and find the best way to fight this malaise. In my case, I volunteer for the /Habitat for Humanity , a wonderful organization that builds not only homes but lives for those who are less fortunate than us.
Great job, Jing!
Hey Jing, wonderful photo, amazing lesson about compassion, so true the story this photo is telling us and unfortunely not so rare. In my city which is so small, I haven’t seen scenes like that but thank you that remind me all those people who need help and hope especially on Chrismas time. Because on holidays the people who are alone and helpless feel even worse.
Have a nice day!
I often don’t comment on posts of this kind because my remarks seem so superfluous to descibe a tragedy of this kind. Other posters have spoken eloquently about the power of this photograph, with which I agree, and I thank both them and you for this jarring reminder of life’s travails and, by contrast, my own good fortune.
very poignant
When I first moved to NYC, I was very disturbed by the sights of homeless people sleeping on the streets and begging for money on the subway. I used to give them whatever change I have in my pocket until I learned that the subway authorities forbid this practice. Anyway, I see homeless people so frequently that I have to admit, I’m desensitized to them. It’s sad but true! I guess that is why the people in the picture just walk by.
This photo is heart breaking. That poor man is in desperate condition. Your stylized technique adds to the strength of this photo.
tres belle photo pour un theme tres important. on a tendance a ne pas les voir et passer a cote.bravo pour ton post.
very beautiful photograph for a very important topic. there is tendency has not to see them and pass to with dimensions. cheer for your post.
There is heartbreaking truth in this photograph. Have you seen the video “Mr. Cellophane”? It speaks to this very situation and is so powerful. How we tend to look the other way, or see through people who live on the street. Kudo’s to you for your capture.
Sad. I saw the same thing outside a bit theatre in Stockholm the other day. Two people with cardboard boxes and all their belongings in a few bags, sleeping on the pavement.
hi everybody.
you’re right, Jing. I’ts time to be conscius too that everyone hasn’t happy Christmas. Always, we must keep this photo in our mind. Always, we have to know what it’s going on in our world. Always, we have to be glad for what we have.
Nice photo, yeah.
Difficult to know what to say, but thank you for posting this photo.
Great document, Jing!
they are very much part of our life, sometimes we fail to see it..or even offer to help…
So sad, but it’s a great photo, Jing.
This looks like something I see in waikiki alot - very sad - hope they will be ok in the cold!
This picture represents the absolute tragedy of the human condition, one hopes there is a good samaritan ready to appear.
It’s sad isn’t it? The last 2 days it was raining non stop in Singapore, and there was this blind man that goes around selling tissue papers. Sis said he was walking in the rain when she was meeting me for dinner. So when he came to sell tissues where we were eating, sis bought it from him.
Sad, very sad. Moving, touching…as we were commenting once, that person lying there could be me, could be you or your family. Life goes on and the wheel of Fortune goes up and down. We also were dealing with homeless people in our ‘debate’ and the possible cause of their situation, if it was willing or not. I remember Denton, Kris or Sally giving their own personal opinion, with some I agreed and with some others I didn’t much. But I say now, who cares why or how, the problem is that they are, they are ‘us’ lying there, it doesn’t matter what your creed is, your status, we’ve got to think that they are ‘us’ and be humans and act like humans, the rest is bull…Of course I apply this to myself too whenever I forget, I don’t want to be cinical. Of course I can’t do it alone, you can’t do it alone but attitude and actions can be changed individually at least. I agree with kate, we look superfluos when talking about this in a way…
Thanks for that photo.