'Three Women (II)'

Sometimes a photo captures a look so strong or expressive it

overcomes any transitory technical issue. In mind this is one such.

Take a look, please, and see if you agree. Taken at the entrance to a

kiosk in the Kyiv Metro, just before a militia (police) wagged his finger at

me to indicate 'no photos' (maybe) or perhaps 'no unflattering photos?'

(I can't be sure). I just shut my camera and went on my merry way.

Your ratings and critiques are invited and most welcome. If you rate

harshly or very critically, please submit a helpful and constructive

comment, please share your photographic knowledge to help improve

my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

Despite the movement blur at the woman's face, left, this is a wonderful shot in my book, though I am surprised raters are giving me a break on the blur.

Thanks for your endorsement; such women as she are not all that common in Ukraine, but you almost never see such a woman in the USA or Western Europe and you see a few every once in a while Ukraine.

Because of strictures you almost never see 'pinup' posters in the USA or Western Europe now because of the success of the feminist movement, so a contrast photo such as this is highly unlikely to arise in those venues except from an Eastern European Country - a former Communist Country where such displays of flesh were (and are) more common, and the distinction of women and men is held in different regard than the more 'enlightened' West.

Whether for good or bad.

I have divided views about it.

As you may have guessed.

I love pretty women, and I also love that women should have rights.

The two conflict though . . . . and therein lies 'the rub'.

In the USA, it's considered 'sexual harassment' I think to display posters such as these in the workplace, and a worker may be entitled to a lot of money in 'damages" (female workers) claiming she has somehow been sexually demeaned by their display at her workplace.

I am not sure an Eastern European woman sees it the same way -- at least not the majority at this time.

In anyway, it's grist for my photography, which is what matters to me, and I hope to my viewers.

Thanks for the comment.

john

John (Crosley)