i don't know
by silverfoxx

Comment by sevilduvarci:
great lighting here. beautiful, svetlana.

something has changed
by silverfoxx

Comment by Melethia:
But you know what? You're gonna be just fine. I guarantee. :-)

this is how it goes
by silverfoxx

Comment by Melethia:
LOL! Great capture!

this is how it goes
by silverfoxx

Comment by nixter:
ha! I was only just thinking about a shot like this today, and how I could capture one! Well done!! : )

something has changed
by silverfoxx

Comment by krgl:
Yup, like I said. You photograph yourself best. Nice work.
Powerful photo. Thank you !

something has changed
by silverfoxx

Comment by posthumous:
The subject was being real but the photographer was performing. A stunning combination.

I often think about the balance between art and "real" emotion. This is an excellent example of both. Looking at artless emotion is often too much for a viewer to take. But when there's some art to it, like the composition here, and the lighting, the viewer has room to enter the emotion with you.

Usually, the subject of a photograph is not so directly emotional. From such photographs I want a more chaotic composition. I want to be thrown off by the art. But here, I want just what you've given me, curtains opening slowly onto the chaos within.

And for that chaos I offer my condolences.

something has changed
by silverfoxx

Comment by alfresco:
:(

Very nicely captured Svet, what a sad sad photograph.

Sadder still it was for real :(

something has changed
by silverfoxx

Comment by silverfoxx:
it was for real.

something has changed
by silverfoxx

Comment by jaysonmc:
Love the power of the emotion. Hopefully it was just for the camera and nothing truly tragic in life. As always you have a way with lighting and composition.

something has changed
by silverfoxx

Comment by bucket:
whewwww..or some other such sound, no words...