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Donna.

I must be going through a shadow phase

well - Picasso had his blue period . .

I'm sure that everyone goes through phases / moods / obsessions as they pass through their lives.

with my photography, I tend to find a theme and work around it for a while,
exploring the possibilities and pushing my photography a little further as I go along.

my current phase involves light and dark. opposites,

the subject at the juncture of light and dark is brightly lit in order to stand out . .

gawd strewth - you don't want to listen to all this stuff . . .

I change direction every few months anyway - never really knowing which way things are going to turn out.

but isn't that more interesting than 'having a style' or 'sticking to a safe approach' ?

each day - each persons shoot is different . .

it gives me more reason to look forward to doing what I do . .

and takes photography out of the realms of 'just a job'
to something which is more of an all consuming interest or even a passion.

steady on there matey . . can't be talking about passion here . . you never know who's reading this . . .

ANYWAY . . I like the picture below because it is graceful.

the curves in the arm on the left are almost those of a dancer.

the shadows give depth to the image and the tilt to the head add to the feeling of motion

A viola and a girl.
the exquisite shape of the instrument echoes the equally lovely shape of the girls back,

The straps on her dress almost make the viola look like a surrealist rucksack.

Rene Magritte eat yer art out.

(ok he would have incorporated a nude, but what the heck)

 Voila,
 the viola goes

 leaving simply
 the girls back
 and the amazing
 dress straps.

 the image works well within the rectangle,

 simple but classy.

 my images don't always have to show faces !.

 Sarah , floating,diving,dreaming or whatever....,

 I thought that the hand which dominates this picture is very like that of Adam/God in good old  Michaelangelo Bounarottis' Sistine Chapel pic, for which he is justly famous.

 (yep - he got there with that one before I did !!),

 never mind - I bet he took longer to finish his than I did

 (If he was alive, he'd probably biff me for saying that - I know his pace of work on that job was a bit of a  touchy subject !!)