Roxana: she is both, often at the same time ... sixteen years of watching her moods and growth, i should know her, but now what shadows and depths that i could have never dreamed!!
she herself is a force i can not begin to imagine and so i look at the photographs only. the second photograph manages my breath away like a wind, the white space balanced against the form, or - which is white space and which is form? one begins to question existence spending time with this shot which seems a distillation of essence.
erin: i am silenced, thinking that you know her, that over the years you will know her better, perhaps even in ways that i will not ... what circumstance this is, how could we ever guess?
there are lucky moments when essence and existence seem the same. i think she has such moments more often than most of us :-)
I like the lightness of her face in the second image.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice day James. ;-)
Lucia: thank you :-)
DeleteOh those teenage years of "No don't take my picture dad!"
ReplyDeleteLiz: they do resist, but i am lucky enough to have them as captive subjects :-)
DeleteAh, the shielded portrait (your commenter, musicwithinyou, has one too!). The half-obscured portrait....I always love these.
ReplyDeleteHannah: how much do we reveal about ourselves in how and when we hide?
Deletei like that shyness, that idea of hiding, in the first one, opposed to the total openness, embracing the light, of the second one :-)
ReplyDeleteRoxana: she is both, often at the same time ... sixteen years of watching her moods and growth, i should know her, but now what shadows and depths that i could have never dreamed!!
Deleteshe herself is a force i can not begin to imagine and so i look at the photographs only. the second photograph manages my breath away like a wind, the white space balanced against the form, or - which is white space and which is form? one begins to question existence spending time with this shot which seems a distillation of essence.
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erin: i am silenced, thinking that you know her, that over the years you will know her better, perhaps even in ways that i will not ... what circumstance this is, how could we ever guess?
ReplyDeletethere are lucky moments when essence and existence seem the same. i think she has such moments more often than most of us :-)