Unfortunately, some of these are hosted off of MSN, so there's gonna be some quality reduction. Click on'em for bigger, higher quality views.





This one may be my most favorite of the entire deployment.



One more of her from a slightly different perspective.





Unfortunately I don't have this in B&W on Pbase...

Comments and criticism always wanted. Tell me how to make my pictures better.

you may be one of the biggest assholes in N&D, but you take some damn fine photographs

Good use of the rule of thirds, the pictures are really well balanced and one's eye moves across them naturally. Where were these taken?

The second one down is my fav. The expression on her face is amazing. The third one with the full body shot, in my opinion, loses some of the intimacy. Nice job all around. But 2nd one is amazing.

E-Minor, you're right about the intimacy being lost. One of the problems with that picture is that it's cropped from the original. When I uploaded it from the camera, I cropped it, and forgot to name it something different experimenting with the crop. I still have the original image on the CF card fortunately. I wanted to post that one right there, because although you do lose intimacy, you get a better aspect of the life the girl lives. And I'm not so sure that is communicated well in the first one of her.

The majority of these pictures were taken near the small village of Nagad, Djibouti.

The last picture of the little girls was taken right smack dab in the middle of Djibouti City on Avenue 13.

I totally agree. The close up takes it from just a snapshot to a true photograph.