[Leica] San Pablo Atitalan, Guatemala

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Beautiful images of a lovely family group. Your use of light is 
wonderful and the intimacy the family has afforded your lens is so 
clear. At first I found the all colour images a bit annoying, but as 
the series progressed, the muted use of colour became a benefit. The 
colour temperature variation between some of the images makes them jar 
a bit as a group. I wondered about the focal point on some of the 
portraits: how easy is it to focus in this light or is this Auto-focus 
on the Canon.

Thanks for letting us know and remember this and many other families 
both in Guatemala and now in Pakistan.

Cheers and here's luck

On 12/10/2005, at 8:32 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> PAWs:
>
> The family that I stayed with this September lives in San Pablo 
> Atitlan, Guatemala, one of the villages that was destroyed by 
> landslides from Hurricane Stan.  I've tried to find out what happened 
> to this Tzutujil family, but have not gotten answers to the e-mails 
> that I've sent to the agencies that I work with.  The extended family 
> lives in a tiny, remote, village on the shores of the most beautiful 
> lake in the world, surrounded by volcanoes that slid into the lake. 
> These are just the jpegs that were recorded automatically along with 
> the RAW photos that I also haven't had time to process. I hope with 
> everything else that is going on in the world that you'll remember 
> this family.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/guatemala_2005
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com
>
>
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