On 5/12/05, UncaMikey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luben, I don't know if you have already posted this photo and I missed > it, and I hope I am not breaking some PDML etiquette by bringing it up, > but when I looked at your PESO shot I also saw another shot in your > photo.net portfolio. > > Now, I like your "in action" shot very much, but this portrait is just > stunningly lovely, IMO. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3278301 > > The expression, the tones, the out of focus background, it's just very > nice indeed. > > I hope you don't mind my bringing it to others' attention. I give this > photo my highest praise: IWIHTTP (I Wish I Had Taken That Photo). > > *>UncaMikey
I agree with you completely, Unca. This is a beautiful portrait. Yet another example (to my mind) where a photo with some technical shortcomings (it could be sharper) is able to overcome that by it's sheer emotion and power. Doesn't hurt that the girl is stunningly beautiful, but there's more than just that. It's the moment caught, as if she's let down her emotional guard and allowed us to look into her soul (corny I know, but it's what I feel when looking at it). At once shy and apprehensive looking, I get the feeling that she usually holds herself out to be strong and unyielding, but for one brief second, she let the photographer (and us) see that other side. Of course, I could be all wrong in my assessment, and maybe I'm just making all this up, but that's what the photo makes me think and feel, anyway. Lovely! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
