Zafero

Glad to read your comments. Thank you!

Very nice image. Has a very intimate and sensual atmosphere. Thanks for sharing. Regards, Wobby.

Difficult lighting situation, but fitting for, as above said, sensual and erotic scenes!

 

Hi, Laura!

 

Long time no see!

 

Cheers

 

PDE

Hi Wobby, thanks a lot for your visit and your impressions about this image, very glad you've find this atmosphere interesting... yes it seems there's no one else there, just the woman washing herself in intimacy or maybe remembering the caresses of her lover.

Kindest regards, Laura.

Dear Pierre, thank you for your impressions and visit in this image.

Lighting is one of the themes in photography that I enjoy best, so I had a great time dealing with lights here.

This washbowl (zafero) was one of my wedding gifts, so it's a quite tender scene for me :)

I'll visit your images, I needed to have a rest. Thanks for everything... very kind of you!

Kindest regards, Laura

 

Hello Laura! As others of your pictures, the scenes are always interesting. There are many elements here that I like. What you show us in the picture, and what you leave us to the imagination ... the zafero is a really nice piece, the jar on the floor, colorful mantle, the floor patterns, the cross hunging on the wall ... and so on, the sum of all elements in artistic way, make this picture, a very interesting one.

Nice to see you Laura!

Kind Regards,

Rosario.

Hi Rosario, thank you very much for your visit. You've emphasized something very important to me ... and quite essential in any form of expression: "what is left for the imagination." It's ultimately what makes us dream and appreciate everything around us.

The jar, the embroidered silk shawl ... when I ponder on the issues that can make interesting my images, I always had in mind the objects and memories that are part of my own life. Due to my familiarity to them I can integrate better than anything else.

In this case, to photograph this floor I had a nice experience. First I thought where I could find an old floor, but most old houses are privately-owned and I have no confidence to ask to enter in them. I know a very beautiful one in the middle of an artificial lagoon, just in the center itself. I usually dream a thousand and one story inside, but I've never been able to visit. So one day I decided to find an old floor and went to several chapels I knew.

This floor dates from 1913. The slabs are original old ones, the baseboard and the slab of the stairs on the right are not ancient but the ones that have geometrical designs are from early last century. It was almost impossible to put the camera between thick bars that prevented access. I contort as I could to get the perspective I needed, because I already saw in my imagination the zafero, the woman ... everything.

The camera went crazy with so much white color on the wall and manual focus was the most difficult between the bars. Two older women, made me as guide around the chapels. They were very friendly, but they spoke so much that in the end I thought I would not have time to photograph. At last they went away and I was alone with the camera, well not alone..  surrounded by thousands of dead souls :( even the air weighed upon me a little. So to my eyes, there's a strange mixture of sensuality and death (¡!)

 

I am very glad that you like it. Nice to read your comment.

Kindest regards, Laura.

All element fit together masterfully with a touch of sensuality only you know how to show us! Congratulations my dear friend! Warm regards.

Hi, I've read your comments the other day, but I've been very busy with exams.

Just I've finished today, sorry I couldn't answer before.

Very nice to hear from you!, I hope everything is well!, there's something I've always liked in your comments and appreciations of images and that's... you seem quite convinced about what you're saying.

As if you "categorize" with much certainty when speaking.

 

The word you've used "sensuality" is quite ready-witted. Is there anything more inviting, subtle and lovely than sensuality? :)

 

Thanks for your visit and thanks for all. Hugs!

 

Con cariño, Laura

Lovely! And somewhere out there I see a religious symbol - almost obscure but present!

Yes... Tony...it's true what you're imagining, there're a lot of religious symbols around. The stairs at my right go to a secret place, below my feet... there's something quite obscure and difficult to guess and... and... the crack to my left is of a grid / trapdoor leading to a sinister place ahhh!

A beautiful story could be written!

Thanks a lot for your visit, much appreciated. very grateful!

Con cariño, Laura.

http://www.lauramarco.es/grid.jpg

It would be perfect if there were just an electric blow dryer and a curling iron in the composition:-)

Thank you Jim! very kind of you. Glad you've visited this image.

Kindest regards, Laura.