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Sunday, April 15, 2007

West Point Cadet Guide

We went to West Point on Friday to see the United States Military Academy. Russell is a Junior in High School and has started investigating colleges, and universities. He expressed an interest in West Point so we went there for a Candidate information session and tour. If you want to read about the experience, I went into it in greater detail on Parallel Universe.

This was the Cadet who was our guide. While each of the Candidates, went off with their Cadet guides, he took the parents on a tour of the Academy. I don't remember his name, unfortunately, but he was great. He was funny and smart, and very engaging and informative. He is about to graduate in less that 40 days.

I wanted to get a clear shot of him, with a better composition but it proved difficult since we had a very large group that day. Often someone would walk in front of the camera as I was about to shoot. It was also very cold and my poor hands were ice so I didn't take many photos and kept my hands mostly in my pockets. When I took this shot he was standing on an incline. If I had pulled back there would have been the tops of heads just below his neck, so the composition is a bit off. I wanted to post it anyway even though it is a less than optimal composition.

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posted by Laurie at 12:00 AM

19 Comments:

Anonymous Intern said...

this is a fantastic portarait. you've captured so many elements - youthfulness, full of hope and life, direct, soft and tough ... amazing portrait.

i saw the photo in parallel universe... thats fabtastic too ... In fact with my interest in architecture that rock -facade was very impressive.

12:49 PM, April 15, 2007  
Blogger PhotoSam said...

agree with intern...i tihnk ur compo is great as it is...loving the dof too..

3:20 PM, April 15, 2007  
Blogger Nazzareno said...

Lovely shot. The lighting is superb.

3:44 PM, April 15, 2007  
Anonymous Still said...

A very interesting expression. You've done a superb capture of this young man!

4:24 PM, April 15, 2007  
Anonymous jelb said...

Bonjour,
Well done lighting, tones..Bravo!

6:31 PM, April 15, 2007  
Anonymous micki said...

This face proves that even though it's hard to accept (especially as we get older,) the youngins are capable of taking real good care of things when called upon.

9:06 PM, April 15, 2007  
Anonymous dotun said...

West point is a very good military school. Nice portrait.

10:09 PM, April 15, 2007  
Blogger Sidney said...

Great portrait! He looks a bit Filipino... ;-)
Famous school but I shiver when I think that such bright young men might end up in (yet another) war.

1:19 AM, April 16, 2007  
Anonymous david said...

i can't see much wrong with this portrait personally - i think intern has pretty well summed it up though!

2:59 AM, April 16, 2007  
Anonymous Alice said...

Nice portrait. He seems so young.

11:07 AM, April 16, 2007  
Anonymous objectif-Plume said...

quel beau portrait!

1:09 PM, April 16, 2007  
Anonymous Suby said...

Laurie don't know what you are complaining or apologising about, I see an awesome portrait on this page, maybe you just need to take the image and next time let us your veiwers critique in the positive or negative about it.

For me just PERFECT :D

Suby

P.s
Just watching the horrows of the shooting in the USA

1:52 PM, April 16, 2007  
Anonymous Fokke said...

My first thoughts were also that he appears so young. Or am I just getting older? Not a bad portrait at all Laurie, no worries!

3:19 PM, April 16, 2007  
Anonymous Steve W said...

Very nice portrait, I don't think I'd be changing anything. Interesting how the background almost matches is shirt and cap.

7:17 PM, April 16, 2007  
Blogger photowannabe said...

This is a great portrait to me too. I love the coloring and lighting. There is so much hope and intelligence in that face.

11:56 PM, April 16, 2007  
Anonymous Jerry Moores said...

Fabulous portrait Laurie! Awesome skin tones! Love the expression - I just love youth - don't you??? Thanks for sharing!!

7:35 AM, April 17, 2007  
Anonymous Diane - Daily Walks said...

Laurie, I bet this young man would love to see this image, not to mention his mother. The overall tones in this as well as his expression is what makes this. Really lovely.

12:09 PM, April 20, 2007  
Anonymous P.J. said...

I actually think this portrait works very well. Nice job.

12:35 PM, April 20, 2007  
Anonymous Szche said...

Nice one! He's so young

3:50 AM, April 23, 2007  

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