40 YEARS WITH SILENT AND TENACIOUS FOOTSTEPS
(Exercise about Composition)
Every morning, i usually hear the sale talk "Ai an xoi bap khong"(means "i am selling corn and glutinous rice", which are two traditional and simple foods in Vietnam) from an old vendor.One day, while I was buying some glutinous rice for breakfast, i asked her "how long have u been being a vendor?" .I was amazing when she replied "40 years".At the first time, I did not believe it but it was true when my mother said to me that this vendor has been selling corn and glutinous rice for 40 years.My mother also said this woman's family is quite poor and she has many sons and daughters.She has been nourishing her children as a vendor for 40 years since my mother was a child.
I really admired her.For that reason, I decided to take her picture. The first purpose is keeping a picture of a tenacious woman, and the other is applying my lession that i had studied in class "Composition"
Take a look of the picture and you can understand my messages that i represented.

1-the area in the picture : Although the woman is the central element in the picture, but the size of the woman is not big. I choose poor and old houses as the background of the pictures in order to indicate that the woman’s work is very ordinary like other ordinary works of poor people in Vietnam.

2-The the direction followed by the viewer‘s eyes is from backward of the woman. It means we will se the woman is walking forward. The size of the woman is small and far from the viewer eyes, not closed. It represents that the woman has been working as a vendor for a very long time.

3- the value of light in the picture is used as soft blue of the very early time in the morning. The woman starts her work very early in the morning ,she is hardworking.