Transmitting New Skills

This capture illustrates perfectly what I hoped to see:: the one who teaches holds the hand of the one who is learning, here the pottery skills.. This firm guidance is truly a physical, almost carnal and intimate transmission of feeling the contact with the clay and the creation in process. Congratulations for this well diserved 1 st place and thank you for offering such an accurate and beautiful picture!

The big brother knows the art and shows it to his younger brother. who seems eager to learn it. This is a testimony that families are the first place where we can learn almost everything if the different members do have daily or special skills and are ready to transmit them if we are interested! Thank you for participating in this challenge celebrating transmission within the family!

Far from our European culture, Papua New Guinea tells another amazing story of transmission, where gesture and spirituality mix in dances meaning a lot for those people. This performance is certainly not easy to learn. Beautiful capture and thank you for sharing it in this challenge!

I do love this picture very much because it illustrates a common love for an art shared by a master and his trainee. I am impressed by the stark concentration of the eyes on the sword. This sport also requires physical hand contact for the transmission of the feeling how to hold the sword accurately. Thank you for participating in this challenge with this very pleasant example of transmission!

Weapons do not at all belong to my favorites, whether in my life nor in photography. At first sight this picture scared me.. But looking and thinking again, I must admit that the army is part of our society and that this scene of padagogy represents an excellent testimony of the military world, seldom seen in our challenges. This photography could not be a better illustration of the kind of photos I asked for, showing the gesture of a young officer and the strong concentration of the cadet getting famliar with a machine gun, almost bigger as he is. Excellent composition, sharpness and colours. The eye is immediately attracted by the essential. This second place is well deserved! Thank you for participating in this challenge with this very unusual and excellent picture!

This photo represents a teacher with her students in a museum with a specacular display of dinosaurs. It remains perfectly in the brief as there are so many gestures and expressions in the faces of the amazed children, discovering these giants. Paper and pencil in the hands, the children are very concentrated in absorbing new knowledge "on the field.". This picture is a real story telling and I thank you for your participation in this challenge!