A Kiss for Luck I -- Twenty-Four Hours In Spring

This young woman by tradition embraces this statue of a famous man

from history in Ukraine for luck (in love, presumably). Part of my

folder, Twenty-Four Hours in Spring, all photos taken in 24 hours, to

be added to my folder of the other three seasons, representing four

days' shooting in all. 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 superior

knowledge to help improve my photography) Thanks! Enjoy! John

Like the idea of a four seasons project a lot...

Would prefer this image (which though well taken) to be less posed & more animated...

Possibly cropped tighter on RHS

Good luck :)

I didn't do the posing. I was quite some distance away.

She is posing for a friend with a camera, unseen and out of frame.

I often take photos of people posing for other people with cameras, and I often think my photos are better than those for whom they are posing, as in this one for instance, in which I caught her moving toward the statue, instead of beaming at the camera. She really isn't posing here yet, but preparing to pose, as she's caught 'off guard'.

The 24-hour series I thought up a year ago, almost, and I will merge this folder, 24 Hours In Spring, with the larger folder which contains 24 hours each in summer, fall and winter, for my chronicle of the seasons of the last year.

There's a certain rigor to choosing a day in which all the shooting is emblematic of one season, and you don't have to choose the day ahead of the time you select the day for the portfolio, and instead can look back and say 'that was a good day' and select that one.

As to the right hand side, maybe I'd crop it if it were my lifetime best, but it isn't, and I tend to keep full frame. I might smooth out the detail, right, or just barely crop a little bit to make the right smooth and less distracting, though. Good observation.

John (Crosley)