color -- then and now Dolce & Gabbana, Paris: My View

This is 'my view' of Dolce & Gabanna, Paris -- with just a

little 'intimacy' and 'puckish humor', which was shared by the male

subject of this photograph. Your good faith ratings and critiques

are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very

critically, please share your superior photographic knowledge to help

improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

How funny! I love it. Dont know how partial I am to the reflections...part of me say's it adds to the humor, part of me says its distracting, still hunerous. Nice shot! ;)

When I was first spotted taking photos of this man dressing mannequins, his supervisor rushed over, waving away my cameras.

 

I persisted, giving him the thumb up sign and mouthing the words with a smile in French 'c'est superbe', 'c'est superbe' as though it all were a big joke, and amazingly the supervisor went away and I was left to photograph away.

 

Even this guy seemed to enjoy his newfound status as photographic subject, though he is actually involved here with 'intimate parts' of this 'mannequin' -- which of course is the 'joke' of the photo -- that and the fact that this is a most unusual capture of Dolce & Gabanna -- precisely what one does NOT expect to find from that famous label.

 

I hardly even 'see' the reflections, but maybe that's because I'm the photographer, and also I used shadow/highlight filter in Photoshop to suppress them substantially and also eliminated many other worthy shots that were comprised substantially of major reflections, to which there could be many other meanings, since there is a major boulevard and park across the street, together with monuments/statues, etc.

 

Also passed up, a photo of him doing this next to a mannequin fully dressed with the famous D & G logo on a belt buckle, because of too many reflections.

 

A street shooter's gotta take what one gets and do with the best of those.

 

I say this is a rare find; look around and I doubt if you'll find another such capture anywhere, ever.

 

While it's not 'stunning', it has the humor, I think you see; it certainly had me chuckling as I took it.

 

Best wishes.

 

John (Crosley)