Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Path, interrupted: part II

D300 - 300 mm, 1/320 sec f/5.6, ISO 1600

It is probably due to ageing the fact that I find myself thinking about "where would I be if...".
Fantasies are a powerful drug, and it is easy to get lost in them. Maybe an adventurous explorer, a photographer, a professional Tango dancer, slender and magnetic?
A common mirror unveils the crude reality, a mirror which never fails to bring me back. Instead of a sinuous dancer it shows me a wooden stick wrapped in bacon... and I don't even eat meat!

Mumbled by - A - C -
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8 comments:

  1. amaramaraAugust 14, 2008 at 9:10 AM

    Che bella foto!!! più o meno credo di aver capito il significato delle tue parole...Il tango è una danza meravigliosa...quanto mi piacerebbe.

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  2. - A - C -August 14, 2008 at 9:44 PM

    Grazie Mara. è stata scattata ad un recital di musica argentina e tango. curioso spettacolo per un paese di montagna...

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  3. Crazy timeAugust 14, 2008 at 10:15 PM

    Anche io penso che sia molto bella la foto! In risposta al tuo commento: io sono a Los Angeles. Non so che clima faccia a New York, ad agosto tre anni fa era da morire! Umidissimo e caldissimo. pero' la grande mela ha sempre quel certo fascino che conquista sempre, a qualunque temperatura.

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  4. amaramaraAugust 15, 2008 at 11:22 AM

    Sì curioso...ma pur sempre affascinante...mi piace moltissimo guardarli mentre ballano e provo anche una certa invidia.

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  5. qualcosa di belloAugust 16, 2008 at 12:32 AM

    i could mull this sentiment over all night & i'm not sure if i want to go there yet in my life. your irony in the words & your beauty in the photo will have to be enough for right now (too much writing to do tonight to go to this place!)

    but i do believe this may bring a poem or two to the surface at some point...

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  6. - A - C -August 16, 2008 at 5:42 PM

    @ qualcosa di bello: ;-) you're right. What I didn't write in the post was that I almost always come to the conclusion I would have chosen the same path again. Only in a very few cases would I have taken a different direction, and those situations weren't the most important ones.

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  7. KristinOctober 2, 2008 at 3:05 AM

    This is my favorite photo so far, especially since I love to ballroom dance. You perfectly capture the grace of dance.

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  8. - A - C -October 2, 2008 at 5:23 PM

    @ kristin: thank you very much. I actually have another couple of shots I like from that event, an argentinian tango evening dedicated both to music and dancing.
    Unfortunately I am not even close to the grace with which those dancers moved.

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