January 17, 2022 8:00am This image drew me in immediately. My eyes and my mind are drawn to many different elements, some obvious and others unfold keeping me interested. Technically there is an interplay between the dark and light values. The cavern notably at the bottom left. Is there something inside, dangerous, or a treasure? The shape of the background gives the suggestion to my mind of a large dress. Fascinating to me is that the darkest part of the cavern would be like looking under and into a dress. The gentle over exposed high tones are perhaps what immediately draw in the eye as it shifts between the lightest and darkest values as the mind makes sense of everything, tracing and exploring all of the forms. The eye is unable to remain fixated solely upon the obviously attractive and very classically feminine model's chest and breasts. She is not a Venus but Christ like in her pose. The model has been well placed within the boundaries of the background but more interestingly offset from the center as though she is dancing alongside a much larger dress or within it's ethereal entrapments perhaps. This is an impressive use of pose, light and making optimal usage of the environment that added to the feminine form and so powerfully impacted my imagination. I get a feeling of a woman in the process of dancing, perhaps she is looking back to being youthful in a dress dancing alongside a larger and more adult woman, envisioning being grown up mature and on display for others as she is here, beautiful and desired. Her pose is not what the mind would first think, she is not dancing and she is not lifting a foot off the ground or having one arm raised as if dancing. She is almost Vitruvian. Rather her pose and nakedness plays with a potentially deeper psychological metaphor and I would think it is one of a sacrificial offering, rather Christ on the cross like. So the male ego of undressing a woman and viewing her sexually, gauging her age, maturity, fecundity or in any "impure" manner is put in chheck by the subconscious and conscious mind. I truly admire this image and the entire composition. VERY POWERFUL!
August 09, 2021 4:20pm another eye catching photo.. what a great natural setting. It frames her awesome figure in a way that makes her the complete centerpiece of the image
