My Peace
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B&W a real winner on this shot too.
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
One of your best shots of our favorite subject (Samanthas)!
Perhaps a tighter crop on the left and a little more headroom. Do you have it in the original?
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I have thought some about this challenge. Kids are a definite plus here, the younger the better. So you have that.
I think light is a good one, too. Streaming light, well, I would kill for it, but I can't wait around, and I don't have a place for it to stream through anyway.
I just think I would try some more if I were you, because to me that is one of the few smiles that looks like gas. I would have a more tranquil baby, mother and child, etc. and/or............if you could add a ray of light, well, go for it.
but, who am I to say, as I said.
Hey, I found the greatest blog place, I am playing with it.
ginger
thinking . . ."daddy's going to love what I just did in my pants"!
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
Well, maybe it seems like peace now, but just you wait until she is a teenager, then you can weigh in.
Personally, I have found that parenthood is worry, for the most part. Don't get me wrong, I love my children to distraction. If I didn't I don't suppose I would worry about them so much. What I know is that from the time my wife and I raced into NYC to deliver our oldest until now, my general level of worry has been about 100x what it was when I was childless. Also my love and satisfaction level. But peace? Maybe for them. Oh yeah, and I guess when they were asleep and young it seemed peaceful by comparison to when they were awake.
Peace is something that happens when nations decide not to have war, something that Buddhists struggle to attain, and what you rest in when you are dead. Not something I assiciate with babies or children of any age.
[I must have caught that from Scrooge McDuck.]
Is this better?
As to parenthood, well you must be a very differnt person than I am.
Rutt, it is not that children are peaceful, nor that they add to our peace, it is the perception that they are innocent, thereby somehow a personification of peace, when they appear at Peace.
Labs................I can tell you my easy way out so everyone else can do it. I don't have the time nor the the babies, etc, wars, ceasefires, cute signs, to really work this. So I have been told where some graffitti is. If I get to it, it is clear across town, my timing will not be optimal...........I am just kind of saying that I don't plan on coming up with the optimal photo.
I would love to see an abstract one, like that light thru the hole in New Mexico type "rocks".
Rutt, you thought immediately what I thought. That I think of peace in context of what is not happening...........and that can be difficult to portray.
That was last night. Then I thought well, I am going to that ballet thing, perhaps I can blur a quiet moment, between leaps and/or children.
I mean to say Labs, you have a better chance, this is not going to be my shining glory, not unless there is a miracle. And if there were it would probably not be politically correct, huge smile, so............
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What are you after? Do you really want B&W or some duotone? Do you want more detail in her face (I would.) What about that blown area? Want to try to recover some detail there, or is it part of what you are trying to convey?
Also I fully expect someone to come up with a cute puppy and kitty sleeping together, huge smile!
I would not expect that from me. My dogs are not at peace with my cat who is terrified of them and refusing to leave her upstairs existence.
I am running into so many older people who are divorcing, thinking of divorcing, etc, I also think a photo of two older people sitting quietly together on a quaint wrap around porch. Or variations there of, I think those would be good.
ginger
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OK, yeah, I wish there was a TOUCH more headroom, the tangent of the head with the edge of the frame...
But it's minor. Beautiful. Nice conversion, lovely depth of field. I get what Rutt's saying about the blacks, but what you did at first works for me very nicely. Lovely shot.
Enjoy every moment.
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