..more than a thousand words..
an unhappy garment
Posted by larans (Lund, Sweden) on 18 January 2010 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.
"Her age was only an unhappy garment for him that she happened to have got over herself- because underneath she was totally young."
Lina Wolff, Many people die like you.
"Hennes ålder var för honom bara ett olyckligt plagg som hon råkat få över sig- för under var hon helt ung."
Lina Wolff, Många människor dör som du
Cafe Slavia in Prague
Words create stories,
pictures create worlds.
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Reno from Madrid-Paris, Spain
Hi Lars! I like it because of the painting seem to be a representation of memories of this woman, the diagonal is composing well your photograph...but i think this treathment on the couple near the woman is "too much" and beside, I could had be interesting integrate them in your picture...I don't know, just a personal feeling.
18 Jan 2010 6:09am
@Reno: Thanks for your comment. I tried to make it more like your comment, but I think it draws to much attension from the original thought with the lady and the waiter/painting (and corresponding to the text).
http://larans.aminus3.com/image/2009-12-27.html.
k@ from Paris, France
Wow, the diagonale is superb that leads the eye from the woman in the left to the painting in the right with those mixed up colors, fabulous compo !
18 Jan 2010 12:10pm
@k@: Thanks for your comment!
Eric Cousineau from Sherwood Park, Canada
Well seen and captured Larans! A very introspective capture. ;-)
18 Jan 2010 1:42pm
Theys from Charleroi, Belgium
Good composition and contrast, good shot from view, bravo!
18 Jan 2010 2:49pm
@Theys: Thanks for your comment.
KriKridesign from Cully, Switzerland
So strange treatment...Something I do not understand...And I like it a LOT!!!!
I make me think to my father, quiet old today...Once he told me that he could'nt believe that he's become old until he realise that there where lot of things he couldn't do anymore....
18 Jan 2010 2:51pm
MARIANA from Waterloo, Canada
Wonderful, thought provoking compo . Picture on the wall and alone lady with the same position of her hand as a hand of man on picture , is fabulous !
18 Jan 2010 4:41pm
@MARIANA: Thanks for your comment. It´s great to read all those different interpretations and associations to this picture. Lars
Kenny Couch from Spring, United States
I immediatly notice the similarities with the framing on the painting. A wonderful picture that only has so much mystery tied into it because of that painting. Is it part of the true story or just a MacGuffin?
18 Jan 2010 5:02pm
@Kenny Couch: It´s "pure picture" (or pure cinema as Hitchcock would have said). Thanks for your comment. It´s great to read all those different interpretations and associations to this picture. Lars
Marlowe from Le Havre, France
Superb! I love the scene as a response to the picture on the wall! And the "depth of field" is amazing!
18 Jan 2010 6:42pm
@Marlowe: Thanks!
@6ft5: Duktig vet jag inte precis efter att ha tittat på alla fina bilder här på Am3. Tack för kommentaren och att du uppfattade/uppskattade berättelsen. Jag ska träffa Lina Wolff imorgon (vi arbetar delvis med samma saker) ska bli kul att höra hennes synpunkt på mintt försök till illustration.
Mirza Ahmad from Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nicely presented, with good depth of field.
19 Jan 2010 12:28am
Garfield from Ancaster Ontario, Canada
What a super capture ... well seen and executed. Bravo!
19 Jan 2010 3:43am
tede from Aubenas 07, France
Hello, Very nice shot, she seems to have taken the same position as the man in the picture. Good day.
19 Jan 2010 8:33am
Florence from Paris, France
A great compo and clever focus. I like the correspondance of her attitude towards the man on the painting.
There's a very nice atmosphere here, full of intimacy.
The place, the clothes of this lady + the waiter's clothes add a mood of retro style. Well done. A painting within the painting. Good !
19 Jan 2010 10:37am
@Florence: Thanks for your comment. It´s great to read all those different interpretations and associations to this picture. Lars
Marie-Jezaria from Paris, France
I love that sort of portrait. The old person have a particular photogenic sensibility and spontaneous expressions... I love to capture them also, as per children.. :-) (http://icietdailleurs.aminus3.com/portfolio/239.html)
Compliments for this wonderful capture and 5* !!
19 Jan 2010 10:49am
@Marie-Jezaria: Thank you for your comment and liking the picture. Your wonderful picture "When time to live..." is by all means also worth the highest ranking (my French is not so god so I´m unfortunately uncertain about the translation).
dan from Paris, France
Solitary person with the glance was lost far off, I find her touching this lady !
19 Jan 2010 11:04am
Jean-Louis from Nîmes, France
Bien vu cette dame et ce tableau ,c'est génial !!!
Bell pdv .
19 Jan 2010 11:26am
DaveB from Exeter, United Kingdom
This is a great candid portrait, very evocative!
19 Jan 2010 12:24pm
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
Such an amazing shot and your selective focus and blur is simply brilliant! I love how your subject seems to glow, as if maybe she is not real, but perhaps a ghost that comes to this same place every day, the same table, waiting for her love.
Amazing story being told here.
19 Jan 2010 1:40pm
@bluechameleon: Thanks for your comment. It´s great to read all those different interpretations and associations to this picture. Lars
Fonts from Barcelona, Spain
A perfect composition. A first terms is bright with a static image and end of the diagonal of a character in motion! The light color and very well resolved! Greetings! Adela
19 Jan 2010 2:52pm
SOUL AFLAME from The bosom of Mother Nature, United Kingdom
Such a clever and accomplished shot. The layers of detail and blur work very well here.
19 Jan 2010 7:15pm
ordinaryimages from Kentucky Bluegrass, United States
A unique interpretation of space. best...jerry
19 Jan 2010 8:32pm
Vitor Martins from Lisboa, Portugal
Great composition and processing, amaizing light.
19 Jan 2010 11:51pm
Manuela M from Rennes, France
Cette photo est splendide!! Cette femme est sortie de son tableau!!
Un mimétisme troublant entre la réalité et le tableau du fond!
Bonne journée.
20 Jan 2010 11:19am
@Manuela M: Thanks for your comment. It´s great to read all those different interpretations and associations to this picture. Lars
narcís from Girona, Catalunya, Spain
Interessant imatge!! Curiós joc entremaliat amb el focus!!
25 Jan 2010 9:16am