ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE. (Please view larger).

Beautiful love scene, Dimitris. The poses, expressions, attitudes and DOF are great. Excellent capture! Regards!

Thanks.

Love is all you need...

Thank you David.

You remember the song too Vladimir...-:).

All we all human being need ,is love..... ;-)) nice, good timing well composed and exposed ,good DOF( as was already written). Tender moment.

This is such an excellent scene Dimitris, the great affection showed by the couple is well captured by you. The boats are well positioned and the overall blue effect suits this scene admirably....Well done.....PS Was this a candid shot...do you know them?

Thank you Pnina. It was a candid shot, Keith. Thanks for your comment.

marvellous comp. and capture.. by not tight crop excellent mood and scene given.. congrats.. OB

Thank you very much for your comment and observations, Ozgur.

Wonderful picture. I don't think you can look at this without remembering being young and in love. Bravo.

Hello Jim, how right you are my friend!

Superb moment which been so well captured here my friend, an image like this give the feelings of peace and happyness, thank you for sharing it and wishing you all of the best my friend.

A tender moment and one that makes me remember..... nice capture and timing.

 

Warm regards, Pamela

Greetings to you Rashed and thank you for your visit and your kind words. Pamela my dear, let our hearts go out to these young people as they are keeping the flame going...Thanks for your visit. Warm regards to you too.

A romantic composition with perfect tones and light-effect. Best regards.

What a beautiful expression, not just in their faces but body language too. Great clarity and DOF. Well done.

Dimitris, when my son was just 11 months  old, he was a healthy baby with a great appetite, but he gained little weight.  My family on my father's side were all of slim proportion, yet concern for my 'young man' whom I loved so much, led me to have him examined by his Paediatrician.  I had not taken him to the Dr. in about 3 months as there was no apparent need.

For 3 days 'my love' was in the hospital undergoing a miriad of tests, just to rule out any serious condition. I'd spend my days at the hospital, and in the evening before retiring, I'd call the nurses station to see how he was - and my ears always heard his terrified crying. It tore me apart to hear this.

The nurses asked me many questions, one was a freind from Church, and she had said that for his 'condition' the Dr's had written down 'FAILURE TO THRIVE'.  I was all too aware of this 'state' a child could be in, and to know that my Jesse was being compared to a baby who'd lost, or been seperated from it's mother at a very early age.  I had read they often become so depressed, they refuse to eat, and often eventually die.  Without the LOVE, WARMTH, AND AFFECTION an infant so desperately needs from it's mother, it is hearbreatking to know this can occur. I was told not to worry, the Dr. just needed to put some 'conditon' on his chart. I made sure it was soon removed!

There was a little boy in a crib across from Jesse. He had been there for a week and during the time I was there, I saw his Mother once. She did not work, had no reason not to attend to her child. The nurses were so busy they would bring in his food, but did not have the time to feed him. He would not eat, only drink from a bottle. I soon made him my responsibility. For the few moments I could sneak away from Jesse's crib, I would also read him a story if I could.  Jesse, when he would rest, would not close his eyes entirely to sleep, so afraid I would leave.  After 3 days I asked the Doctor if I could take him home.  The poor little guy went into the hospital a happy, no problem child. Now his nerves were so bad I could not allow him to stay there.

It took many weeks before he would let me out of  his sight, especially at bedtime.  And after all was 'said and done'.....there was nothing wrong with him at all.....he just had a high metabolism and burnt calories quickly. But until he was at least 10 years old, he would sleep with his eyes half open. (so wierd to see).

I tell you this, not to take away from your photo, but to emphasize how important your title, borrowed from the Beatles is.  As adults we seek love and affection, each at varying degrees.  It's abrupt or gradual absence in a relationship soon tears at the soul who is loosing the one they love. Your photo here is a beautiful candid moment, a sincere exchange between these two lovers. They are looking into each other's eyes.....so evidently in love.

We no sooner leave the womb, and we are created to seek love, warmth, affection, and nourishment. How fortunate is the child who lives with such love and actually matures as these two have, continuing the cycle of life, as it was meant to be. You've very beautifully shared this moment, so much more important than just two people in each other's embrace. My sincere thanks for your perception and photographic skills, Gail

Your very moving story Gail, made me think of the words of St. Paul and I will repeat them here because they emphasise the true meaning of love.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give away all I have and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastfull; it is not arrogant or rude.

Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends; as for the prophecies, they will pass away; as for the tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.

My favorite of all your images....beautiful presentation my friend.