THE LAST KISS

Fine b/w image. If you have a RAW file, you might want to bring up the eyes just a bit. Simian eyes tend to be very expressive.

beautiful image. good use of light and shadow in monochrome effect. I reiterate Les's remarks about the eyes. Additional highlight of the eyes would bring this image additional mood and feel

First a happy new year to everyone!

Many thanks for the good tips.

This ANIMAL series is up to 5 years old and I stop it in 2010 with more then 500 final images. This one is from 2008 and maybe I would develop it different today.

Most of the time I develop more the one version. I think I chose this version (and the picture too), because it touched me most deeply. I took this picture a few days before the little chimp baby George died. The mother carried the dead baby around for more than a day.

A friend told me about it weeks later and I made this picture as an obituary for George.

In 2012 I will restart this series and take some new pictures for exhibitions. Maybe I also do new versions of some old pictures, but in the past it was my private experience, that my first version is the better one.

Thanks, and sorry for my broken english but Google translation looks funny sometimes.

 

 

really fascinating..congrats Wolf for this Art!