We were in Leon, Spain for a couple of days before beginning our Camino de Santiago pilgrimage when we entered this lovely store on a side street, selling handmade lace and embroidered items.
While Tania was buying a gift, we spied these nuns doing a little window shopping, so this was a quick snap -- I didn't want them to know I was photographing them. The problem with this kind of shot can be window reflections. There's a little bit of that here, on the right-side nun, but it doesn't ruin the image. I like how they are framed by the window and the clothing display and how the pink of the clothing is echoed in the nuns' complexions -- it ties together the disparate elements. Also there is nothing distracting in the street -- if there had been a red garbage can in the right-hand side, for example, it would drive the eye out of the scene. But most critical to this image is the emotional element -- the nuns' expressions and absorption in the window display.
Next April we are going back to Spain - -this time to the Basque country in the northeast corner of spain. We will walk a portion of the camino, visit seaside towns, and end in Bilbao. For more information, contact www.frescotours.com.
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