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Someone is leaving

She came from our building, someone I had never seen, pushed her huge bags into her tiny car and drove away. Last thing she did she slowed down under my balcony, looked out of her car window at something above my floor, and there were tears in her eyes. Or perhaps it was just the light.

Shot through black curtain, and not an especially thin one either, with a 85mm lens practically touching it. Focus is in the cars, and with f/1.2 the lens has no way of focusing to the curtain, not by a mile, but still the structure of the fabric is visible.
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Au Cœur... diagonalh… said:

life....................................................
a complete mystery sometimes...

still to discover and discover

still to wonder
around
in the secret alchemies of our souls,
9 years ago

Spo replied to Au Cœur... diagonalh…:

Thank you for your words, Luc. Ours it but wonder in awe and amazement.
9 years ago

Chrissy said:

a great shot with a touching story
9 years ago

Spo replied to Chrissy:

Thanks, Chrissy.
9 years ago

Wierd Folkersma said:

getting a mysterious touch on the story
9 years ago

Spo replied to Wierd Folkersma:

You know, they say life is about leaving. In this particular case it started to intrigue me just who is leaving who, from where and why. They also talk about creative destruction these days, how it opens up new possibilities. Well, leaving is certainly destruction – and sometimes it might even end up being creative as well.
9 years ago

Wierd Folkersma replied to Spo:

I agree, it is both
9 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… said:

Without reading the story, the blurred picture also gets a meaning of "fading memories".
9 years ago

Spo replied to Sami Serola (inactiv…:

Curtains closing on her memories... I haven't got that far yet. :-)
9 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Spo:

On the other hand, a relationship may end just because people forget what brought them together in the first place. So, fading memories cause divorce.
9 years ago

Spo replied to Sami Serola (inactiv…:

And because the fadeout cannot be synchronized, they should keep inventing new, pleasurable and shared memories every day. A fairly new article in Suomen Kuvalehti, however, says men get some of their memory back in the end – but only when it is too late.
9 years ago

Don Sutherland said:

Great capture.
9 years ago ( translate )

Eefje said:

Now there's a picture with a story, there's a sense of mystery here that I like.
A lot!
9 years ago

Spo replied to Eefje:

Would there be story for you without the caption? :-)
9 years ago

Eefje said:

Absolutely, except that I wouldn't have guessed that she was leaving;-)
9 years ago