Chris Malcolm wrote:
In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems B. Colton wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:38:38 -0500, Douglas Johnson
wrote:

Alan Browne wrote:

Your "portraits" of people are too static and posed (although very
detailed and rich), so shots like the farmers working tell us more
about the people than a mere impromptu portrait. More of that and
less of the posed shots would have been welcome.

I'm going to respectfully disagree. There are some very
interesting faces in that collection. It's fun to think about the
things that formed those faces.
The images of how much artillery is an important part of their lives
says much about the ignorance of their culture and childish chosen
religion(s).

It says that for the last hundred or so years they've been fighting a
civil war and been fighting off invading foreign armies who were
taking sides at the same time.

This could be why the rest of the world has advanced into the 21st
century and they're still a 3rd-world country with nothing but rocks
and sand to show for their beliefs and values for the last 2000
years.

I think it's very impressive that they beat off the Russian army and
are now giving the US army a very hard time.

Who is "giving the US army a very hard time"? So far the US loses about as
many soldiers in Afghanistan every year as it loses cops at home. The
Soviet Union lost almost 15,000 soldiers in 10 years in Afghanistan. So far
the US has lost about 800. The US casualty rates for both Afghanistan and
Iraq are _tiny_ compared to any previous war.