Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted
Day 213 – February 20, 2012
This week’s photo challenge from WordPress has the theme of distorted.
First, the photo…
Dancers in a dream
Over this weekend, as Summer Vacation here in the Southern Hemisphere was winding down, the family and I took a mini-vacation to the town of Iquitos, which is located in the Peruvian section of the Amazon jungle.
On our third day, our guide took us to a village populated by members of the Yagua people.
When we arrived, we were escorted into a structure that was explained to us to be a communal house.
Then, the villagers came in and performed two dances. The first dance, the one pictured above, was called the “Dance of Bliss”.
I obtained the effect for this picture by turning off the flash and keeping the camera as still as possible while the aperture remained open for a few seconds to compensate for the low light.
Enjoy.
Posted on March 2, 2012, in Peru, Random and tagged Amazon, jungle, Peru, photography, postaday, Yagua. Bookmark the permalink. 41 Comments.
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It makes me think of the Ghost Dance religion that would lead to Wounded Knee.
That looks cool! Sounds like a great trip too!
It was a great trip and quite unique. I’ll have more about it in other postings.
weird!
It does look odd and I especially like the wispy footfalls at the bottom of the picture.
I absolutely love this photo. Very well done! It definitely does feel like a dream, or dancing ghosts! LOVE!
Thanks for the comment. I really wish I could take credit for being a fantastic photographer, but this snap was completely by accident because I forgot to set the flash on.
Amazing! Such an interesting entry.
Thanks. What I think also makes the photo interesting is that with all motion, there is an isle of non-distortion in the center in the figures of the family. It just shows how transfixed we all were by the dance.
Awesome
Thanks for stopping by and hitting the “Comment” button.
Looks like a trance dance!
As it is called the “Dance of Bliss” and the basic premise of the dance is that the participants walk round and round (and round again) to a persistent beat, I would agree with your description.
Absolutely wonderful
Thanks. Later on, the tribe did a “Friendship Dance” and invited us to come and join them – which we were honored to do.
Wonderfully distorted! …and a little eerie lol
Odd how photographs can work at times, isn’t it? It certainly was not eerie at the moment, but yet that’s what the photo conveys.
I think this is so pretty and dreamy!
Thank you muchly for the kind comment.
Really excellent photography! I’m really envious!
Thanks, I appreciate your comments.
Really magical – and ghostly!
The true magic was in the friendliness of the folk who let us come in and traipse around their village and share their culture for a short while.
as usual…you photo is always great..like it
Thanks for the great comment. I blush at your words of “as usual…”
Great capture…yes, I think they are ghost dancing…or, at least you could probably sell half the Ghost Adventure/Hunter TV show followers that’s what they are.
The only thing keeping any true devotee of Ghost Hunters from believing my photo contains actual ghosts is the fact that I did not shoot it using night-visioni goggles. It’s that green hazy look that apparitions like.
Great effect! I like how their feet are just visible, almost ghostly.
Thanks.
on seeing this images, i wonder this is how ghost will look when shown on history channel
nice distorted images
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