By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Hands.
It’s all about the hands! (Well, and a few other body parts…) Here’s Joe the Guide (guess which one he is) showing a bunch of newbies the proper forward stroke.
It’s amazing how expressive the hands are, and how much we are drawn to look to them for clues—especially after we’ve cut off the heads!
Some other nice “Hands” posts:
- Eleanor Marriott
- LonelyTravelog
- rondomtaliedraai
- FrizzText
- Random Roar
- Broken Light
- Life of a LuckyPorcupine
- mywordwall
- Primo Piano
- The Neophyte Photographer
- Inspired Vision
- The Great Escape
- Fenland Photos
- Silver Mists
- getwisetomyself
- Even A Girl Like Me
- Mystiic #1
- Mystiic #2
- piran café
- PDF34
- Reem Saleh
- Wanderlustress
- A Word in Your Ear
- Rhianna’s Guide to Ethical Eating
- The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface #1
- The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface #2
- Waldina
- SanvarFotofun
- The Urge To Wander
- The Eco and the Id
- Colline’s Blog
- TantienHime’s Blog
- Hurtled to 60 and Now Beyond
- Bringing Europe Home
- Pictures in Living Color
- Somewhere Reminiscent
- Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition
- Cardinal Guzman
- Sol-to-Soul Photography
- Rick Diffley Photography
- peasquared
- Crazy Tennis Mom
- The Daily Dose Photo Blog
- Shooting Venice and Berlin
- yi-ching lin photography
- Silken Photography
- Hike. Blog. Love.
- Bagni di Lucca and Beyond
- Nature on the Edge
- Writing the Girl
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
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Wind Against Current 
Yes, Vladimir, once decapitated, the hands lead the communications :).
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Body language…
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:)
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Good photos — extreme cropping to get right to the point!
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Well, I find that if you leave on the heads, people tend to look at the faces…
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oh-oh. Somebody’s bottom is just about to be whacked, and he/she is clueless. ;-)
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Maybe ;-) Or maybe not! I wonder how many interpretations of what is going on in that scene people can come up with?
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What a great idea to chop off the heads! :D
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Yes, I am beginning to see that it has a lot of potential!
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Great photos.
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Thanks!
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Great post!
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Thanks, Jude!
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Excellent! ;)
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Thanks for your encouragement!
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You’re welcome! :)
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Excellent interpretation of this week’s challenge!!
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Thank you, Cheryl!
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Very good choices for this challenge! :)
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Thanks, reb! I think I did OK, considering I don’t often do portraits and such. I have plenty of shots of people, and they do (mostly) have hands, but the hands are not usually the prime focus—unless I make it so after the fact!
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Nice shots!
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Thanks so much! I see you’ve got some nice ones of your own…
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Joe would have to be the one using appropriate sun protection!
Cheers for the pingback :)
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You know, I didn’t even think of that (just now, in selecting the photos—at the time it was only too obvious!), but that is very true too…
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=)
Always obvious for me with things like this. Experience = covering up.
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Obvious for me too, especially since I started kayaking. You soon learn to put on sunscreen always, even when it’s overcast and even in winter—just like you learn to bring a warm paddling jacket even on the hottest day of the summer…
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You’ve shared photos of strong, powerful hands indeed. Very cute when you cut off the heads – hands do communicate a great deal. :)
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Yes, it’s surprising how they jump out at you!
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Love it, Vlad, especially the cropped photos, they really illustrate how evocative hands can be. The top photo looks like an awful lot of fun. This is the point where I admit I’ve never actually been in a kayak. But I’ve done canoeing. Does that count? :)
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Counts some…. ;-)
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I’ll take it. :) So how different is kayaking? I mean, are we talking skiing vs snowboarding? (For the record, I’m in the snowboarding camp) ;-)
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Different boats and skills, but mainly different kinds of water.
Canoes developed for long-distance transport on inland waterways, and they are pretty good at that, easier than kayaks to load and unload—important if there are multiple portages between chains of lakes, for example—and carrying greater loads. Kayaks developed for hunting on the sea.
You wouldn’t choose a canoe for rough open water, or extreme whitewater. (Although there are canoes that do both, those tend to be specialized designs, in some ways more like kayaks.) Basically, since kayaks are closed, they do much better when there is going to be a lot of water washing over the boat and likelihood of capsize.
Can’t relate that to the difference between skiing and snowboarding, since I haven’t done any snowboarding. More like cross-country vs. downhill skiing, perhaps?
In Britain, of course, people say “canoe” to mean kayak, and a canoe is a “Canadian canoe”…
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Oh, and kayaking is easier for a beginner. To go any distance, you do need to develop some technique, and of course you need skills for more difficult water, but on calm water it’s much easier to make a kayak go straight than a single-person canoe, which will go around in circles until you do develop some technique…
In fact, beginning kayaking is so easy that it’s also easy to get into trouble. Especially on the sea, it’s easy just to get in and set off, and then notice the water doing something you hadn’t anticipated…
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Wait, I had no idea that our canoe is your kayak, I just went and looked at Canadian canoes versus kayaks and guess what? I have kayaked, I just thought I was canoeing. Sweet. I feel like I belong to a new club now. Hurrah!
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All right!! You’re in the club! Next up for you, that kayak trip to the Statue of Liberty!
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Great entries Vlad!
‘Especially after you have cut off the heads’ So true! What is everyone doing in the last one?
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It was a tour of the reef at low tide, looking at all the colorful tropical creatures in the tide pools, in Belize. The complete photo is here (move backward and forward in the album to see some of the reef sights).
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Lovely selections… :-)
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And thanks again, Elizabeth!
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Good activity and healthy :P
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That’s why we do it every week!
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Good weekend activity @Vlad :P
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Kayaking or answering comments on the Weekly Photo Challenge? ;-)
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I really like how you have captured the many ways people have their hands while contemplating an object – beautiful.
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Faces and hands are all you need:
… and you can get by with just the hands!
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These are all GREAT Vlad! The crop on the last two is perfect!
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Thanks, Jeff—I am happy you like them! :-)
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Cool all of them!
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Thanks, Paula!
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Thanks for the pingback Mr. Brezina
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You are very welcome, Cardinal!
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I really like the idea of the teacher showing the students the right technique. And yes, the pictures are quite different when you cut off the heads. :-) Good job with the cropping. The last one is excellent!
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I didn’t have too many photos of hands, and no time to go and acquire some at short notice, so I had to think of something… ;-)
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Good thought…:-)
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great entry for this week’s challenge… if I have to guess, Joe is the one with the hat… :)
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Yes, it’s pretty clear who knows what he is doing, isn’t it? :-)
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agree… :)
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Love your entries – especially the ones where hands are placed near bodies while listening. Our hands tell a lot with body language.
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Yes, I was amazed myself at how expressive they are, and how the eye is drawn to them, once the heads don’t hog all the attention!
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“Off with their heads” ;) Love your novel take on the theme. Excellent hand pics.
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Thanks so much! Actually, I notice a couple of others responding to the “Hands” challenge had the same idea—it naturally suggests itself!
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