And on we go to another pic­ture. This one was taken on a dif­fer­ent con­tin­ent, and in a dif­fer­ent world…

Last year, Steffi and I went on a big rount-​trip through Brazil. The other pho­tos from the trip can be seen here, and I will surely post some more pho­tos from the trip here too.

Any­way, on our trip we also made a stop in Sal­vador. Its his­tor­ical centre has been declared a world her­it­age site, and rightly so. Strolling through the city, we walked up one street, and there I saw some kids kick­ing a ball back and forth just in front of these massive steps lead­ing up to a church (you can’t see the boys in this pic­ture, they’re just out­side to the left and right of the frame). Since they didn’t seem to mind me point­ing my cam­era at them, I took a few pic­tures up the stairs and they kept play­ing. In one of the shots the ball just bounced off the fence and came fly­ing past me. For a while I pre­ferred that shot, as it was on of those lucky snaps.

Unfor­tu­nately it doesn’t work too well from an aes­thetic point of view, the eye pretty much just gets lost. I hope this is not the case in the shot presen­ted here, where the kid that’s just chil­lin’ out is much more prom­in­ent and has some of the lines point­ing straight at it. A bit of split ton­ing again and some dodging and burn­ing, et voilà.