Way2slk Loc: Bluffton SC

great composition. very subtle. Excellent

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

You’re on a roll today, Jerry! 🤣😂

Stan

donrosshill Loc: Delaware & Florida

A WWII Wife reminiscing over her Soldier at war.
She misses him.

Don

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

What I like about it (in addition to some sentiments previously expressed) is the sort of timeless felling due to lack of things in the pic that might truly date it (origin date) when looking at it.

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

JERRY! What the he77 are you drinking this morning? All of your posts so far today are more weird than usual.

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

Tex-s

I purposefully skipped other responses to be sure to not be influenced by them. I like the image, regardless of your intended story, and regardless of my interpretation. Well done.

My immediate impression was a bride (or bride to be) glancing at an image of a lost loved one that she would have wanted at her wedding.

Then, though, with no obvious wedding paraphernalia beyond the white dress, and the woman's expression not too pained, I began to think more of what we did when we lost my father. The life celebration gathering was absolutely great, with very few people dressed in black..... My wife actually wore white that day.

And, we spend many hours looking at old photos together. My wife felt the loss of my dad maybe even more than I did, as she had lost her dad at age 15. She spent 25 years with my dad being her surrogate father figure. This image, after a longer gaze, brought me back to the ceremony and the photo browsing. My wonderful wife stared at image after image of a man more youthful than she had ever known, and this image is eerily familiar.

Definitely delivers on emotion.

photogeneralist Loc: Lopez Island Washington State

My first thought or feeling was "What is that white thing sticking out of the top her head. When I forced myself to look past that I got a feeling of longing and sorrow

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

I like the arrangement of the subject in the photo. And I do get the feeling that the lady is thinking of and remembering a loved one in uniform in a melancholy way. Whether because of the loved one being away on active duty or a casualty of conflict isn't conveyed in this image.

I do think the frame is too cluttered with superfluous detail that detracts from the subject. The clothing and beads in front of the lady, the sofa/chair back under her arm and the lamp behind her head all distract from the subject and the viewers focus on the what the lady is doing.

Stan

goofybruce

My first thought was a modern woman looking at a shot of her grandfather or great grandfather, since she and the rest of the photo are in color and the "ancestor" is in black and white. His uniform is typical of the World War II, maybe Korean War era.
If the entire shot was in black-and-white, I think it might make a better story of contemporaries, whether it be boyfriend/husband and she is thinking of him.

boncrayon

A lonely love

rcorwig

As a veteran, I see this as a loved one and a photo of her military loved one.

Jerry Horton

Longing.
Nicely done, however the lamp in the background does distract somewhat, maybe just to the left or right if its needed for the age. Its draws your eye too far past her face.

BudsOwl Loc: Upstate NY and New England

A young lady looking longing a photo of her grandfather who served in WWII and is now long gone. How she wishes that she could have seen him when he was still alive (which was before she was born)

pila

First, I feel that the beautiful, young women is of the 21rst century. Secondly, the photo of the soldier is vintage WWII. I commend you on your concept of story telling.

I believe that a tightly cropped, black and white photograph of a woman in her nineties staring at this same photo might evoke a different emotion. The background would be dark
and the foreground would not be tack sharp. The key would be the expression upon the face of the old woman as she studies the photo.

pila