This is the second Mayan child that I am entering in a challenge. I took this photo while on a trip to Belize where a group of fellow dental students and I offered free dental work in the Mayan village of Red Bank. I guess he doesn't look that poor in the photo because he was such a cute kid, but he didn't own any shoes and lived in a dirt floor hut.
The processing was USM, curves, and channel mixer (to convert to BW).
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Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two three now and I'm running late, sorry.
Unlucky with the title - looks well fed, washed and clothed. Heartless me. 6
This is a lovely photograph, but I really don't see poverty in it. The photo is way too clean for that. His skin is smooth, clean and without blemish. His hair is well kept. With that said, this is still an excellent portrait, the title just doesn't fit it.
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