I like your work with umbrellas. Add to this the exellent mood produce by the dark lightning, the mystery cause by the fact that she using her umbrella inside... it give a very good picture.

I have no idea what story I could tell though... (must go back to work now, lunch time is over!)

what an absolutely incredible photo!!
i love that it's in b/w...black and whites really tend to
give off an entirely different atmosphere then colored photo's.
and their my personal favorite type too.

gorgeus capture.

+fav.

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are those the faces of love,
those pale irretrievables?
is it for such I agitate my heart?

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ps. the story i get from this...

is that she's been waiting for someone. in the rain. or waiting for a train, or a ride, or something.
she feels like she's waiting. i love this, really..one of the better photo's i've seen on da lately.



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are those the faces of love,
those pale irretrievables?
is it for such I agitate my heart?

.: p l a t h:.

Weird you mention, the fact you not willing to post a story with this one since I was thinking to write something about the poem or story I never wrote.

Your absolutly true about the fact that every photograph is a story at least to me cause that's the way how I decide if a picture is good or not, amongst other factors too off course. This one too me sure goes to the heart.

I love photographs that breath contrast and are darker and display a wide range in tones. To me thats what black and white is all about. It's called black and white for a reason... I'm not too fond of b&w pics that are all greyish and don't show me the deep warm black.

I like this one for various reasons. There are the tones with I deeply like for the reason mentioned above but also cause they match the subject that's being portrayed, and that's one I can surely identify with. All in combination with that nice grainy look off my favorite b&w film the t-max 400.

the worn out look off the background spice up the whole thing it shows me it has lived but also scar-ed which to me work beautifully with the person in front. It's there but also not we don't see her face but that's propably what she wants. She's open for the world but at the same time refuses contact. I see the umbrella as an obstacle in our way to make contact but at the same time it's an object of attraction. Who holds an umbrella in a place with a ceiling?? The mystery is only enlarged by the fact we see blacknees instead of her face and there for don't know her state of mind.

I like it cause I can identify with it (another aspect alll good photographs have to me, or at least the ones with people in it). I myself don't always feel like giving it all to the world outside and protecting yourself with an umbrella from others is a genious idea. Since you make your own little cocoon.

I love the picture for it shows us something that is there and at the same time is not and that's and ambiguity I always can appreciate cause to me that's what life is all about. It's never either this or that.

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Very mysterious and sexy. Looks like a secret rendezvous.

Great shot, I love the grittiness!

eerily anonymous. and the texture of the walls give it a sexy grit.

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I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be, I've seen it all, there is no more to see.

beautiful. i love when you do this kind of photograhpy. :] although the direction the girl is facing kind of bothers me... i dont know

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I really like the way that you leave the photograph open to the viewer - my favourite sort is that which I can interpret for myself and gain my own insight into.

To my perspective, she is in control. She does not rely upon anyone else but the umbrella is a tool over which she holds mastery, it is not necessary but it is accepted and she holds it strongly, from the angle of her arm. She may be on a mission or waiting for the right moment - perhaps just being and enjoying that alone. The worn aspect of the background lends the idea that it may be a bad part of town or just old surroundings - yet she does not seem to emit fear for, once again, she is in control of her circumstances.

As for simple viewing of the photograph - I really fancy the light above her, I like the influence it seems to hold in the picture and it stands out to me. I wish that a bit more could have been illuminated, just enough to see what it is that she is standing on, be it a sidewalk or a street. The oldness factor of the background and the shadows it holds, however, are rather appealing in and of themselves.

A great photograph, to be sure.

very nice I too agree that a photo should stand alone, and without the "artist's story."