holga

There's a sense of wildness to this photo, and perhaps a sense of rebellion as well:  this isn't the traditional portrait of a lovely garden, but rather a capture of what really goes on in most of the world.  The composition is unflinching in this regard.  And so there's no doubt, that's said as a compliment from someone who just lets the photo come in after looking at it for a time.

thanks. glad you liked it. here's a quote i used with a group of holga pictures that were presented together online. it fits with this one as well.

"And the boy? He feels his heavy eyelids dissolving in the sweet foretaste of sleep which you conjure. Lies there unburdened . . . and seems one protected. Yet who can ward off, who safeguards his future? Who stills the whirlpool raging inside him, the tempest of Origin? Oh, how the child – sleeping; dreaming; feverish – lets himself get carried completely away! Such a new creature; so timid; already so deep entangled in vine and creeper – all the activity writhing inside him starting to weave itself into pattern; looping and choking; predatory . . . animal. Yet how completely he gave himself to it. Loved. Doted on all that wildness inside him. Loved and gave himself up to exploring the primitive beckoning forest within him; and over its silent decay his shining green heart stood. Loved. Loved it and left it behind him, outgrowing his own roots . . . reaching for urgent beginning. Loving, he finds himself wading in ancestral blood, goes down into chasms where Terrors lie, sated; gorged with the flesh of his fathers. They know him; nodding and winking; sharing the secret. ."

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies. Translated from the German by Stephen Cohen.

Yeah, it does.  I once had a psychologist who suggested that I make a photograph that expressed a particular feeling.  I found that hard to do (I usually go in the opposite direction of first finding an image).  When you can express a feeling/thought in a photograph and also that same sense with written words, especially if that feeling/thought is somewhat abstract or deeply held and not just related to everyday superficial living, that's a pretty powerful combination.  It's also a significant work of art.  One doesn't just breeze by those images or those words.