Hector Javkin

Alex, I was thinking of the water nymph myth of Slavic and East European culture, and the image certainly suggests that. I may have gotten mixed up between rusalki and samodivi, two different kinds of mythical creatures.
I do look forward to the photographer discussing this, if she wants to.

There is a Slavic tradition of a female water spiriit, called a samodiva or samovila in Bulgarian. I believe this is what Elena Pencheva (who has the same last name as Bulgarians I have met) is creating. As such, I think it is successful--she is putting the samovila into photographic form, and it works. I don't know if the photo has a title, but that might have helped those who didn't understand it.

You can take the photo as a fun image if you like, the same way that you can take Da Vinci's Last Supper as the painting of a fun farewell event, if you don't know Christian images. It's more understandable, of course, to not know Bulgarian mythology. I'm not saying this photo is a Da Vinci, but I like it.

 

Talk about capturing the moment! The artistic value is in its immediacy and drama. I'm glad to read that only the camera and the end of monopod were outside Marsel's vehicle, although there was still risk. It's amazing to have held the camera on the lion during this.

I'm puzzled by the name of this. There's bullfighting, and what might be Flamenco, but I don't see any tango. The countries where tango developed, Argentina and Uruguay, don't have bullfighting. They don't allow it. Tango is not characteristic of Spain.

I don't understand the title of your photograph of what looks to me like the Jefferson Memorial.