Tuesday, January 12, 2010

...you can pick a rose.






The stone pickers working the beach in the country-side of La Union, Philippines. They get paid a few pesos per bucket of the good ones (you know, the hard grey round ones). It wasn't until I cropped the second photo did I notice the infant assistant. All taken on telephoto between 100-200mm
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3 comments:

jkirlin said...

This is one of your best works ever.

Joe Catalano said...

Thanks Jeff, thats probably because there are actually people in the photos. I'm usually too apprehensive of taking pictures of strangers. I figured the worst that could happen is I get some stones thrown at me (but then I could make some money).

arabesque said...

i accidentally stumbled your blog thru shutterday, the shots are sad but pretty, very up close and real.
i just took one look at it and guessed couldn;t it be the phils. and yes,it was! ^0^