Awareness...

Look as if a sad story to me and signified by the fig tree that bore no fruit. But very impressive and captivating. Pnina, Well done!!

I like this latest series a lot. These images have been really strong. They make the viewer think.

The embrace is powerful and poignant. To me your composition represents love as a safe heaven in a chaotic world. This is rendered exquisitely in B&W and has quite a poetic feel.

Wonderful B/W image.great light,i love it,best regards

What Jeff said about Marilyn's dress is what came to my mind too. This reinforces the idea of the timeless theme evoked here. The B&W is beautiful, like in a 50s movie.

I'm so thankful to all of you for the nice comments and interpretation . Words like poetic, timeless, old movies, is so nice. Some of it was in my head while photographing ,post processing, and connecting it to my interpretation of " The forbidden apple story". ( was not at all the subject of the dance...)

Hi Pnina, I mistakenly identified the clothing as a modern day fig leaf. Somehow I continued the story in my mind from the same play and the scene reminded me of the set in "YinYang". (Perhaps we often believe that which we wish instead of what actually is) Adam and Eve, with the fig leaves appropriated because of loss of innocense and later the animal skins, I imagined the two would have maintained this condition of shame if it were it not for love. (My thought) Love, when present in humans, seems to overcome the shame if but for a short time. I would then conclude that love becomes a great asset for humanity and if love conquers all then I think it should handle "loss of innocense" as well.

 

I suppose your connection of the photos took on this meaning for me; although, I must have missed the gist of the image as you would have intended. I do apologize for this. I saw in one photo absence of shame without clothing and in this photo a covering but two lovers as well. Sorry to miscontrue your photographic message.

 

That is nice for the theatre to provide you with a location to work. I fully intend to see a ballet and hopefully it will be a good one as a bad one might prevent my return. I will have to choose wisely. I will now anticipate music thanks to your description rather than my uneducated view of silence.

 

Thank you. ~Sky

Sky, your point of view is very good, it is my explanation that did not help... what I mean is that the stage srory, that this scene( and the other two) was taken from( post processed to fit MY intention) was not about Adam/Eve story, I connected it to that series about the Garden of Eden( The forbidden apple, Genesis story) with connotation to our time and awarness( that came after eating from that apple....;-))...

 

Another point Sky is that each photo after uploading( as I said before several times) has its own life, and viewers will interpret it according to THEIR understanding , not necessarily what the photographer intention was, so just feel well, I liked your interpretation.

 

I hope you will go to a good dance performance , I wonder if Alvin Ailey is performing in Texas, this american group is wonderful and worth seeing.

I like the movement and grace you've captured in her dress and the lovely position of her legs. Clothing aside, the expression here reads to me more shameful than the expression in the nude. The nude you posted, blurred though it is, is quite sensual and loving. Nothing shameful about that, at least in my mind. Here, the man looks away as if he is ashamed of something. I wouldn't really read any further into that. I like the way you've handled the tree. It's alive and glittering and its texture nicely contrasts to the soft flow of her dress. Great that you captured their feet and the ground of the stage because it does give a nice dimensional feel. It's both stark and warm at the same time, which is a nice accomplishment.

Very goog shot in b/w. I like your work.

Regards Raoul

Fred thanks, I think that the pose has not enabled him to hold his head differently, but in any event, the shame ( also awarness ) is part of human behaviour from the time they have found that they are naked....( according to the myth of course ...;-)) I appreciate your analogy of the two of them, it is two sides of the ( story) coin....

 

Raoul, thanks I appreciate your comments.

Pwerful image with great framing at Time , I like your creative to choose the B&W mood and also the forms in this shot , woman's feet are not on the ground and it has made this work so interesting and more powerful , I liked if models were from right side , more than this ,and your framing would be little abit to left more than this.

 

Regards

 

Afshin

The sense of joy and freedom you have captured in this photo is superb. Joy, the most elusive of all the emotions and the one which awakens us to our humanity.

Afshin, thanks for expressing your point of view, Interesting.

 

Jack, you are right about elusive, Freedom feeling can be elusive as well... I like your interpretation .

This is so beautiful, passionate and powerful; very emotionally charged and I love it...straight to my favorites folder. You have exceptional talent for capturing emotion and movement. Very well done! :)

Thanks again for your nice impression, I will soon look to see your work as well.This is really nice of you to visit so many of my photos.

I love this, Pnina. It's so full of life and passion.

 

--Lannie