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A bouquet of flowers (Yes, it does belong here)
Feb 12, 2019 09:47:40 #
Jim Eads wrote:
Every emerging youthful model should view this. Take it in. Life is like the wind on your cheek. Here and gone.
I love this photo for all the right reasons.
Thank you.
I love this photo for all the right reasons.
Thank you.
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Feb 12, 2019 09:50:04 #
Feb 12, 2019 10:19:46 #
I think the black and white treatment looks a little too grim. It would have been fine in all color. Just my opinion.
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Feb 12, 2019 10:45:51 #
What it says to me is that, although her body has aged, her heart is still young. I think that applies to many elderly people and your picture expresses it far better than words can.
Feb 12, 2019 10:56:52 #
Feb 12, 2019 12:24:42 #
vertigo wrote:
Yes but that was part of the agreement
Understood.
But you’ve seen her...I’m sure she’s a lovely woman.
She brings to mind an old woman I’d sometimes see while I was out walking. She’d be outside tending to her garden or raking leaves. Sometimes she would just wave, sometimes we would chat...about the weather, her flowers, her aching hips or my aching knees. She must have been in her late 80s, early 90s but she was as beautiful as any 20 year old as I’ve ever seen. Long grayish/white hair she kept in a pony tail. A slender face weathered by her years of gardening and amazing milky blue eyes. Funny, but I never knew her name. She asked me what mine was one day but stopped me before I could answer, laughing as she said “don’t bother, I won’t remember it anyway”.
I didn’t see her for several weeks and a neighbor told me she had moved. There was a van at the house one day with a woman she assumed was her daughter. The neighbor took a minute to bring her groceries inside but by the time she came back out the van and the women were gone...no farewells, no forwarding address. I was sad, wish I had taken time to get to know her, sad that I wouldn’t see her again.
Or have I?
Feb 12, 2019 16:26:00 #
Being as I turn 80 on the 25 of this Mo. It gave me something to look forward to. (Thanks)
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Feb 12, 2019 18:16:35 #
AZNikon
Loc: Mesa, AZ
One of the best photos I've ever seen in this section. Very touching-don't change a thing! I love it! 
Feb 12, 2019 20:53:38 #
Fantastic work. What an opportunity to produce a really nice work of art.
--Bob
--Bob
vertigo wrote:
I have been reading and cogitating on a lot of the... (show quote)
Feb 12, 2019 22:41:53 #
Decades ago (ironically) I was at a poetry reading by Alastair Reid, where he read his "Old Painter to Young Model." It was brilliant. I had a copy of his book with it, but that's long gone and my Internet-fu has been weak with this search. I do remember the closing lines:
Forgive me my age
As I forgive you your youth
My truth is not your truth
Forgive me my age
As I forgive you your youth
My truth is not your truth
Feb 12, 2019 22:47:26 #
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Jun 11, 2019 09:44:21 #
JohnFrim wrote:
A powerful image that can speak volumes to anyone with time to contemplate the message(s).
Bingo... you get it...
Jun 11, 2019 10:48:41 #
Naptown Gaijin wrote:
Bingo... you get it...
Thank you everyone. For me it is one of the most emotive photo I have managed to record. I did try it in all B&W, in full color, and in color with the saturation reduced, but for me this one worked best--thank you for pushing me to try the others.
Jun 15, 2019 13:33:41 #
I agree with a number of other respondents. I wouldn't change a thing on this wonderful photograph. Fantastic job.
Jun 17, 2019 15:43:16 #
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