IMAGE DOCTOR

THIS MONTH'S WINNER

FAR, FAR AWAY

While Raymond Richards was on tour in Myanmar, he visited the Mahagandayon Monastery. He wrote: “It houses several thousand buddhist monks and trainees. At midday, they all form an orderly queue for their single meal for the day. The faraway look in this monk’s face caught my attention as he was either dreaming of food or meditating.”

Another possibility for the faraway look is that he may have been aware of being photographed and didn’t want to engage in the process. However, the shot is quite a nice one. The frame is filled with people, the lighting is even and flattering, and the colours are rich. Some of the left hand-side (monk in background with hand in frame) could be cropped to bring the attention even more to the monk in front of the queue. One last tweak would be to select and soften the heads of the two boys directly behind the foreground subject so that they are as blurred as the monk further behind with his hand to his mouth.

Tiny touches to a good