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--------------- Disclaimer: I hope this topic hasn't been done before. If so I apologize and maybe someone can direct me to the similar thread. --------------- I was wondering if people could submit photos with meaning or a message: photos that make you look twice or think twice. I personally don't have any in my port at this time, but I was looking for some inspiration by starting this thread. What comprises a photo that catches your eye, and not necessarily just because there's an attractive model as the focal point. Tell a story. Make a point. Grab my interest and keep it. Nov 03 06 09:20 am Link https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=1545375 Read it from left to right. Tell me what it means. edit: yes, it's from my port, but I think it's pretty cool because it's not just about the glam. Another version:  Nov 03 06 09:21 am Link  my dad's service at arlington Nov 03 06 09:26 am Link Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Keep it coming. Sorry about your dad lotusphoto. Nov 03 06 09:30 am Link I usually roll my eyes when people post their own work in response to threads like this, but I'm going to break my own rule here and do it anyway. I'm doing it because whenever this photo is posted in my portfolio it generates massive amounts of heartfelt emails from all kinds of people. Even though I don't think it's the most technically accomplished image in my portfolio, people seem to find it more meaningful than pretty much anything else I've ever done. "Do I Look Fat?" Nov 03 06 09:39 am Link Shyly wrote: I have always admired this image! Nov 03 06 09:43 am Link Bondo Photo wrote: he died in 2003, oddly on 4-15, because arlington is so busy when someone passes away the service is usualy put off for a couple of months, my dad's service was schedualed for 7-7-03 Nov 03 06 09:47 am Link  Russell â Half a second before he made a grab for the lens. Nov 03 06 09:55 am Link  Okay first of all, sorry it's so small lol. The bigger version is in my port. Secondly, I didn't post this to get shot at for lighting, I just simply wanted to show the mother and child half-silhouette. I like the photo. Some people love it, some people have expressed dislike for it. Doesn't matter to me cuz it does something for me and that's the beauty of art :-D Nov 03 06 10:19 am Link Few.. Not necessarily related: Waiting:  On internet addiction and inertia (18+) http://www.pbase.com/wgrowland/image/67554076 On life:  On god:  On loneliness:  On social anxiety disorder:  Nov 03 06 10:27 am Link "...Liberty Above All"  Nov 03 06 10:33 am Link W.G. Rowland wrote: Red X's really tell it all.... Nov 03 06 10:36 am Link Daniela V wrote: Nope I see them too. Nov 03 06 10:38 am Link Not too dramatic but...  Nov 03 06 10:39 am Link W.G. Rowland wrote: All this one tells me is that handicapped people don't go to church. ;-) Nov 03 06 10:42 am Link  Ain't Nobody Worrying..... Nov 03 06 10:42 am Link This may be a little too dramatic, but I thinks its relevant... https://img5.modelmayhem.com/061030/08/ … c2e86c.jpg Nov 03 06 10:43 am Link Bondo Photo wrote: I have a few in my port that at least try to tell a story. Nov 03 06 10:44 am Link Shyly wrote: your own life should have more meaning to you than someone else's life Nov 03 06 10:44 am Link  Nov 03 06 10:44 am Link  No Dream Left Behind. Nov 03 06 10:45 am Link I attempt to tell a story with mood in all of my images. These are, what I think, the more successful attempts:  Also: "Eyes of a tragedy" "Penitent Suspira" Untitled Nov 03 06 10:49 am Link PERFUME LINGERS⢠means something to me. I have not and will not take one photograph in life not related to the expansiveness of this project. It is open for collaboration with any who would like to help me contribute to it's world. Take a look. MM#171900 and MM#199195 Nov 03 06 10:50 am Link Nov 03 06 10:59 am Link I think Jeffery Scott always has something interesting to say. MM 1980. I was gonna post my own stuff.... But then I'd come off like everyone else. Nov 03 06 11:28 am Link ravens laughter wrote: Aww.. Now I feel so cheap. Nov 03 06 11:33 am Link ravens laughter wrote: Is it shameless to plug one's own art if one feels that his work has something to say? Nov 03 06 11:43 am Link ravens laughter wrote: W.G. Rowland wrote: Me, too. In an effort to redeem myself I'm adding someone else: Nov 03 06 11:47 am Link Ahh bill, my statement has no reflection on what I think about others, I just have this personal thing where I rarely if ever like to yield to convention. I never want to be seen as a conformist, its okay for others... Just I can't stomach being part of a crowd. I think it has something to do with my claustrophobia. Nov 03 06 11:48 am Link Shyly wrote: ravens laughter wrote: Me, too. In an effort to redeem myself I'm adding someone else: I've gotten yelled at for posting other people's pics.. And according to Daniela.. I can't even post my own, so..... I'm off the hook. Nov 03 06 11:48 am Link Here are some links to mine. I'm keeping them to links cause they prolly qualify as 18+ All are from my pretty in death series: Heroin OD - Model: Ivania mm#45582 http://static.flickr.com/31/48921469_6526de39a5_o.jpg Deathrock suicide - Model: Domiana http://static.flickr.com/26/47138950_c11a2e71c2_o.jpg Asphixiation - Model: Severina X Sol mm#11085 http://static.flickr.com/29/63813405_295612379f_o.jpg Poison - Model: Ruko http://static.flickr.com/33/67826023_6484acf4da_o.jpg Snuff - Model: Zoe Sara mm# 58402 http://static.flickr.com/36/84074793_84d41b1238_o.jpg There are a lot more... but that is prolly plenty.  ~Saryn Nov 03 06 12:06 pm Link W.G. Rowland wrote: I didn't say you couldn't as in you weren't capable of it...I just said all I saw were red x's Nov 03 06 12:09 pm Link Daniela V wrote: I know.. I'm tryin' to figure out why.. They show up for me.. And others obviously can.. As one got quoted and picked on.. Nov 03 06 12:16 pm Link  Nov 03 06 12:22 pm Link      Nov 03 06 12:22 pm Link W.G. Rowland wrote: Nov 03 06 12:23 pm Link  Nov 03 06 12:27 pm Link Many of my photos and all of my self portraits hold a strong meaning to them. The following ones inparticular are some of my favorites:  self explanatory and similar to the last photo in my modeling port. https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=1292210 18+ For anyone wondering, here's the background for this photo: After shooting a series of artistic nudes, the photog and I decided to experiment with the grating seen in the photo. He didn't have anything specific in mind so I just started posing with and against the grate. When I went to edit the photo (he'd given me a cd with the images straight from the camera), I couldn't help but see these images behind the grate to be almost like I'm imprisoned. Here there is a potentially very sexy and erotic image but the image is changed by the scars and excess skin that remain after 3 rounds of reconstructive surgeries following losing 225 lbs. I contemplated editing out the scars/skin, but decided I'd use the image to make a statement about how I feel about my body and what I'm going through physically. It took me a mere 15 months to lose all of my excess weight going from a size 6X to 7X down to a size 4/6 (XS/S). I was left with an incredible amount of excess skin which later required 3 rounds of reconstructive surgeries (just like one sees on Discovery Health). The surgeries were heinous, each lasting about 8 hours and leaving me bedridden for months and months afterwards. (Total, I was mostly bedridden for about a year - from Jan 05 to Jan 06.) While the immediate pain from the surgeries themselves is long gone, I was left with over 7 feet of incisions on my body, of which about 4 feet have keloided and I've been dealing with severe adhesions and nueropathies resulting in incredible pain. Most days I am still on some degree of narcotic medications, and 2 weeks ago, the pain increased tenfold, again, and I had to go back on a Duragesic Patch (basically a morphine patch). When I look at this image, it brings to mind the fact that while my body looks great (for the most part), I will never be truly free from morbid obesity. As much as I want to be "normal" and go on living my life as though I were never heavy, the truth is that there will forever be long term effects of my being almost 400 lbs for 15 years... https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=1565478 (an 18+ image made into a PG image, but just to be on the safe side I'm including a link) - This is a very recent self portrait (taken 2 weeks ago) and deals with my feelings about my body. The title is free falling and reflects how I feel free in some ways since losing the weight, yet at the same time falling (not in a positive way). (relates back to the pain, remaining excess skin, etc.) https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=1127361 18+ Another self-portrait from a series that I call "Hands" - Relates to my sexuality since losing the weight and wanting to feel desired by my husband. For a very long time, part of me felt "dead". I no longer feel this way, but my husband is playing catch up so to say in terms of being able to see the new me. We met when I was 330 lbs and for 8 years he never saw me at a normal weight/size. He's always loved me for who I am inside and still does, which is wonderful, but at the same time, there's a side of me now who wants to be desired in a physical way. https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=1401101 18+ (found in my photography port) For anyone wondering the history of this, this is for the most part a self-portrait though I had another photog take the current B&W photo of me. The photo on the left was me in May 2003 weighing 370 lbs. The photo on the right was taken August 2004 weighing 160 lbs. I battled through 4 appeals over 6 months period of time for approval for only some of my medically necessary reconstructive plastic surgeries. I've had 3 rounds of surgery thus far to remove redundant skin due to the massive weight loss. In placing the "before/after" photos over my lower body, I did this as this is where I still feel fat. The facial expression SHOULD be a happy one, though I have dealt with major ongoing nueropathies along over 4 of the 7 feet of incisions on me since June 2005.  Others from this series of self portraits found in my photog port: https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=1102978 18+ Once again, dealing with being able to "see" my new self as well as dealing with my awakening sexuality. I don't see myself as being a size 6 to 7X anymore, but I also don't see myself as being a size 4/6 either. Caroline -225 lbs Nov 03 06 12:28 pm Link WOW....that was alot larger than I thought.....sorry. Nov 03 06 12:28 pm Link  Nov 03 06 12:31 pm Link |
