stuny Posted January 22, 2007 Share #1 Posted January 22, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) In the central highlands of PNG we witnessed a Sundance, a ceremonial dance to bring good fortune and cast out evil spirits. Here we see the dancer dressed as the evil spirit, face blackened for the role. There are several more Sundance photos on the 3rd page of Papua New Guineas photos on our site. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 22, 2007 Posted January 22, 2007 Hi stuny, Take a look here Evil Spirit . I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jmr Posted January 22, 2007 Share #2 Posted January 22, 2007 Stuart, another lovely shot - nice framing, colours and a great expression. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share #3 Posted January 22, 2007 John - Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
franklinh Posted January 22, 2007 Share #4 Posted January 22, 2007 You certainly have been to exotic places in the world, STUNY. Thank you for posting this. Franklin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neila Posted January 22, 2007 Share #5 Posted January 22, 2007 Another one of yours that you can spend a while enjoying. I have zero experience of being around such folk/tribespeople (may I call them that?), one would think they might be suspicious of being photographed and yet all your shots I've seen, they are clearly very relaxed. We see natural expressions - fantastic. They're windows into other worlds - and greatly enjoyed. I suspect I'm either showing my ignorance of PNG - or praising your style! Perhaps both!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzo Posted January 23, 2007 Share #6 Posted January 23, 2007 Great expression for a Great photo. VERY well seen and captured Stuart. Azzo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semrich Posted January 23, 2007 Share #7 Posted January 23, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) To my eye the light on the subjects face and the selective focus really make this photo in addition to the movement of the arms. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share #8 Posted January 23, 2007 Franklin - Thank you, but credit Barbara for the travels. She enjoys the research and planning more than breathing, and the execution more than that. Consequently, the travels are always super, giving me some treasured photo opportunities. Neil - Thank you. PNG is an intensely beautiful place, and the long-term racial mixing has produced people as beautiful as the land. Most of the “mainland” outside the capitol (Port Moresby) is essentially in the Stone Age, with very little infrastructure, few passable roads, and mostly grass landing strips. There had been more infrastructure prior to Australia giving in to the independence movement in one fell swoop. The smaller islands, with the exception of New Briton (which is comparatively modern due to palm oil production as diesel fuel, and an even smaller island with the world’s 4th largest proven gold deposits), are yet more culturally isolated from the developed world, but even the smallest islands send clansmen or tribesmen to annual festivals, many of which involve competitions of combined singing and dancing, called “Sing Sings” in pigeon. On one small island (perhaps 1.5 km long) we saw a performance good enough to pack the dance performance theaters of NYC for long runs. Some of the cultural norms and mores are quite foreign to my Western upbringing, and they seem rather paradoxical. More on this only if I’m asked. However, most of the clans have encountered tourists (though the highlands weren’t visited by outsiders prior to 1932), and depending on clan leadership (chiefs are elected from clan elders in this nation of over 800 languages), tourists may or may not be welcomed. Our guides and lodges paid local clans to let us visit to see pretty much every day life, though there was some showmanship. However, wherever we went the children couldn’t get enough of us strange outsiders, sometimes crowding us so that it was difficult to get individual pictures, which I’ll be certain to post in the future. Ivan & Richard - Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abhinava Goswami Posted January 23, 2007 Share #9 Posted January 23, 2007 Stuart this one is graet one . Abhinava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share #10 Posted January 23, 2007 Thank you, Abhinava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biglouis Posted January 23, 2007 Share #11 Posted January 23, 2007 Stuart A staggeringly successful shot. I like the framing of the main subject by the arms just outside the area of focus. You have caught the expression on the subject's face at just the right moment and the shaft of sunlight adds a strong contrast. One of the best shots in the People section, ever, imho LouisB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neila Posted January 24, 2007 Share #12 Posted January 24, 2007 Stuart, a really interesting commentary, thank you. I guess it makes you realise just how small this little planet is and how lucky we are to be able to travel and record it. The (relatively) simple lives of these lovely people when compared to our own personal 'pressure-cookers' of work, taxation, wars, politics etc etc. However my world seems to slip away when staring at such a picture and I dare to imagine. I'm rambling! Snow in London, hiddeous commute, about to chair a Board Meeting for my monthly Sing Sing! Thanks for taking the time to write the piece above - a most enjoyable partner to the photogarph. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share #13 Posted January 24, 2007 Big - Thank you. Neil - Good luck with your Sing Sing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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