'The Love Bite'

Spring has sprung, and this young miss expresses her springlike

affection for her beaui with a little bite to her the lover's neck at

the side of Ukraine's most major thoroughfare, a parklike setting.

Your ratings, critiques, and observations 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

John

I do like this one !

The subject of the scene, in the centre of the image, is in clear detail; as is the detail of the couple. The tones and textures of elements such as his skin, her collar, their hair are well captured and finished. Timing for this image, I guess was spot on to capture his expression.

Had she "chewed" him at some time previous to this, on his right cheek ... ?

It looks like you have again positioned place, people, posture, punctuality and prowess to capture a moment of photographic poetry.

... one of my favourites.

Hope you are well. Regards Doug

Looks like you have exhausted an alphabet of 'p's' praising my work.

I know I just like this one, and now realize that maybe 'poetry' is perhaps the best word to describe it, together with excellent timing, because it defies conventional analysis for composition, other than my traditional 'keep all the interesting stuff inside the frame and all the uninteresting and/or detracting stuff outside' rule.

That's the rule I kept here

Thanks for noticing so well; you made my day/night.

john

John (Crosley)

I think it's the lensangle you use that makes this a great streetphoto.

You snuck a fine compliment in there 'great street photo'.

Thanks for the high compliment.

I looked at this and looked it and when posting time came. 

Even though at first I didn't feel strongly about this photo for exhibition purposes because I didn't feel the composition was so strong, later, out of hundreds of possibilities, this just wouldn't leave my mind . . . . that's my true test of a winner.

By the way, you don't just take one photo and get one 'great photo' like this and hang back waiting for THE ONE.  You gotta take some others that are pretty much garbage or at best plain discards as you work your way in.

;~))

You gotta also be persistent, and sooner or later some of these people get that they're the star of the moment.

These people 'got it'.

Thanks wim

john

John (Crosley)

very beautiful pictures I really like a greeting  ciao.. from Milan Italy ... alex

Greetings to Milano.

I think this is a photo that I think naturally appeals to an Italian; it's so expressive and with good use of hands, capiche my thinking?

Molto grazzi for the compliment.

john

John (Crosley)

John, you have a knack for grabbing me by the eyeballs and dragging me into your point of view.

Okay, I can stop rating photos tonight.  This is as good as it's gonna get.

I think your prose of praise is even more expressive than this photo, if that's possible.

Who knew that such a trifle would have such appeal.

Who could possibly know?  Not I.

And who knew that when she turned to 'kiss' him, that in actuality she'd bite his neck and that maybe on his right cheek there's another bite mark.

Is she a dracula or vampira?

Of course not; no blood, only satisfaction - he obviously enjoys this.

I love Spring in Ukraine where PDA reigns as the couples pair off.

Thanks for a most expressive comment; you get high marks for most expressive comment of the month/perhaps the year and extra credit for putting a big smile on my otherwise taciturn face.

john

John (Crosley)

Truly excellent. Thanks for sharing.

I'm truly astonished that this little photo is getting such attention.

I know it's good; it stuck in my mind for 'next posting' out of hundreds, but it's always heartening when others see things the same way as I; because so many times they don't.  It's also unusual for a highly rated photo in that it's so simple -- it relies for its strength on IMPACT alone I think.

I've tons of photos that must be idiosyncratic because they certainly appeal to something in me but not much my audience.

I'm glad this one strikes some chord with you and other viewers.  I may never 'get the hang of' knowing exactly which photos will score well with the critics here.

Perhaps that's why I keep coming back, and sometimes get great big sloppy wet kiss surprises for good work I thought  the PN audience would dismiss.  (not always though).

Before this did you ever think of critics' approval as being sloppy wet kisses?

[Lex, above in his comment certainly has a way with words, and I've been told I also have a way with words as well as images ;~))]

Thanks for the encouraging comment.

john

John (Crosley)

I like this image very much, it is unusual and very expressive. 

I guess that expressiveness just missed me when I first took it.  I take so many photos, this was 'just another' though I culled it and prepped it for showing as being 'very good' but not necessarily standout.

I keep getting lessons from showing photos on the critique forum.

Thanks for helping teach me.

john

John (Crosley)