So there I was looking up stuff on photography three days ago and I came upon Gerhardt Thompson. I may not be especially interested in nude art but his work is, um, liberal. Really. I had thought some of his photos had me thinking that no law exists in those lands or waters. Art, yes, art is the key word.
There's this one photo of a lady (free of clothing of course) half-jumping in a wide empty field and I thought I would have fallen in love with its expression! It was just so...unrestrained! She was so liberated. And I could feel the breeze from the field in my mind O.o Now that's good photography.
Anyways, I wanted to capture that expression, that liberty, in my own interpretation. Of course I couldn't just run out of my hostel room, grab a female as my model and start taking photos of liberty with my 1.3 mega pixel handphone camera. I didn't have that liberty...yet (maybe). So I ended up spending half an afternoon working some Macromedia Fireworks on the photo.
As much as I am a feminist and my views in congruent with this poster:
I do know it is also very true that Michealangelo's David:
is very much a David (read: it's a masculine name).
The combination of trying to alleviate my self-contradiction (this kind of photography can appear to be a form of female exploitation) and a first-time dabble with Macromedia Fireworks resulted in this:
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