Huế, Vietnam
My lucky An Cuu River:
Sharing another panning photography adventure that happened on its embankments.
This type of photography adventure: manual mode on Nikkor 50mm on an evening embankment under a street light with a cool background and a parked car to partly hide me. But only partly: some people could notice me and, thus, enrich the image with the surprise on their faces.
This is what I mean.
And this.
Guess what is in this image? A man came to his parked motorbike; he noticed me taking images in the dark and lit the gates with his motorbike's headlight to help me. It was very kind.
More riders. I have no idea what their story is, but I feel like I sneaked into the thick of someone's life.
What about this?
I believe some of these people were returning from an expensive restaurant or from some event or celebration, that's why they were so charged with positive emotions.
Twenty meters away from the place. (I didn't want to post all these portraits in motion with no breaks since it would make some viewers bored so that's why.)
There was a stream of parents with children on motorbikes at some moment. There is no public transportation within Hue city so people rely on motorbikes only that's why all those families on the two wheels.
Traveling on bikes has become a tradition so, when authorities start public transportation in a city, few people use it: the popularity of public buses is low in huge Saigon (so different to Bangkok) and people ignore buses in Da Nang with a population of almost 1 million people.
Kimono? Coming back from karate class with dad?
Another evening class, a birthday party?
Mom and kids? Or mom's best friend and kids? Or aunt and nephews? We will never know.
Watching the moon?
The same embankment, amazing old gates.
Grab is Uber for motorbike taxis in Vietnam. The passenger looks talkative.
These guys were having a talk in motion.
Bambi boy flying home on his bicycle.
During post-processing, an idea struck me: what if black and white? The colors were so yellowish and random, the palette was so disturbing in most cases. Removing the colors was liberation. That's how this series appeared.
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I took these portraits with a Nikkor 50mm on a full-frame DSLR Nikon D750 on October 18, 2024, in Hue, Vietnam.
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