Friday, October 27, 2006

Pictures of the Week: Oct. 21-27

This photograph of Pakistani girls showing their hands painted with henna for the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Fitr, celebrating the end of Ramadan, is an interesting image not only because of the beauty of the henna artwork, but because it shows a photographer who was seeing with both eyes.
 
Obvious thought went into the composition of this image. The circle of hands is highlighted by the prominent hand coming down from the top of the image. In putting this week's gallery together, I consciously used that hand's placement in the photo to align with the sparklers from the preceding image in the gallery, and I took advantage of the circular shape of the group of hands to highlight the photo of the remnants of an exploded star that can be seen in the following photo in the gallery. I hope you appreciate the photos throughout this week's gallery.
 
Check out all of this week's pictures, and cast your vote for the best photo: Pictures of the Week: Oct. 21-27. Let us know what you think about the week's selection.
 
-Lee

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

this is a fantastic picture as are all of them. Are these professionals or just "reglar" people taking these shots? they are marvelous! Thank you!!

Lisa
NYC

Anonymous said...

Lisa,

Thanks for your comment.

These are all professional photos taken by photographers from various news agencies - Associated Press, Reuters, Getty News etc.  This particular image was taken by an AP photographer - Khalid Tanveer.  

"Pictures of the Week" is a regular feature on AOL -- our photo editor, Lee looks through thousands of images taken around the world each week and edits these down to just a twelve picture gallery.  Not always easy to do given the volume of images produced each week.

I'm glad you enjoy our galleries.

-Monika
Comment from photographyd - 10/29/06 10:52 AM