A fun snap of a student friend, capturing a nice silhouette-in-motion as she started down the stairs at uni. She wore similar very minidresses to Marie's
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A portrait of our third daughter playing in the garden in 1985. Like M, she has always been someone who gets noticed...
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Expressing the fragility of our dependence on electricity. Taken on farmland near my home (at the time).
An old shot but now more relevant than ever...
More from the "Landscapes with & without people" set...
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Marie in 1972. A cropped version of the original last photo in our "on the road" photo session which, as with most of the best projects, happened by chance – as we were exploring a disused road through a forest in Kent, UK.
"Naked portrait" series. There is something special in the look of a head-and-shoulders portrait taken when naked – often this can be missed because the viewer naturally wants to take in the whole view. I am therefore making a series of "naked portraits", cropped from original nude photos, which can also be flagged "safe" so they can be seen by a wider range of people.
By this time she had been my best friend and muse for two years and my lover for one year, and a year later we were married – now for 51 years.
See the "On the road"album for the other photos and descreption of that day...
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The mythical wanderer across the desert reaches the sea shore. Symbolic of spiritual arrival. (Maspalomas, Gran Canaria).
Shortly after I first posted it in 2008, this photo was chosen by Ken Ichiro Sato for the opening installation of the Rochester Outdoor Museum of Art, now evolved into Big Picture Rochester. Here it is printed to enormous size and covering the wall of a large shopping mall:
Used to illustrate this poem by EDICIONES GUALLAVITO:
De Pedro Salinas
¡Cimeras alegrías tremolantes,
gozo inmediato, pasmo que se acerca:
la frase más difícil, la penúltima,
la que lleva, derecho, hasta el acierto,
perfección vislumbrada, nunca nuestra!
¡Imágenes que inclinan su hermosura
sobre espejos que nunca las reflejan!
PS Mar. 2024
This photo was archived and viewable via my Patreon Gallery but has now returned to public view by request. It received 249 "faves" on Flickr before reset, now 277.
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