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I really dig the shot of the cab drivers. A nice, casual capture that feels like your subjects knew you were there but didn't care. Very cool.

The hand is quite good aesthetically, but the subject has sort of been done to death at this point. One of my favorite moments from "Community" (a TV show in the States for those who don't know) was one character saying something along the lines of "hurry up, I have to finish my Photography 101 project and my grandmother's hands aren't going to take pictures of themselves!"
 
Oh and I don't know about anyone else, but I think a bit of film grain (Silver Efex is my favorite) would be a nice touch on the cab drivers shot.
 
Nothing personal! I like the shot myself! But yeah, wizened, gritty hands are a pretty common photographic subject. As a side note, an astonishing number of said photos tend to be titled "Hands of Time," which thankfully you haven't done!

(Cynical? Me? No way!)
 
Yosemite has been shot to death too, and if I see another telephoto shot of a bird or a macro of a flower I might puke. And the Grand Canyon - no more photos of that either - they should probably just ban cameras from the park.

There are very few really original topics to shoot anymore. So we take more shots of the same types of things that may have been shot before and try to find our own vision in them. I like the shot of the hands just fine. But so what if I didn't? Just personal taste and I'm glad Rick posted these. I'm honestly bored silly by about 99.9% of flower shots, but that doesn't mean people should stop shooting or enjoying them....

-Ray
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@ cptrios: I like your story re: the hands and agree to a certain extent that they are perhaps overrepresented by photographers everywhere (I'm guilty myself). OTOH (PI) there is something about their uniqueness that puts shots of them somewhere in the same canon as portraiture. Well, perhaps that's overstating it a bit... anyway, I like both these shots and hadn't realised that the Fuji was capable of such detailed and well-executed macros.
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Patrick Dodds
 
Good work Rick - love both shots, nice timing and framing on 2nd shot, not to talk about the tricky work with focus ... you used MF or just were fast enough to recompose?

Regards
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Paulo Abreu,

'It is not worthy to make a video of your life - just keep the best moments in
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32°38'22.85"N 16°56'42.65"W
 
Sorry all, I really didn't mean to sound as negative as I came off. It's a fantastically detailed shot and I really like the processing. I spend a lot of time having my (non-photographic) work critiqued by others and vice versa and am just particularly accustomed to choruses of groans meeting anything that can be remotely called "cliché." I forget that not every audience is constantly poised to do the same!
 
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