Oh, I adore this one. The lighting and texture is great.

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thanks dear

I've been pretty wishy washy on my recent submissions. My mania has dropped and I just feel uncreative -_____- but I like this one for now. If only I could stop being emocat for five minutes I could enjoy it!

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this is very nice...i love the mood to it.....
a very surreal looking image

This one has a lot of personal meaning to me so I'm glad you like it

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its great......

this is really very very good!

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this one means a lot to me at the moment so I'm glad you like it. It was a royal pain in the ass since I don't have a remote shutter thing. just the self timer

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Everything you want, but can't have?

I've been staring at this photograph for a good long while, and can't completely see everything.

Is that a tutu on your head? (Logically, it would be a beekeepers...helmet thing.. but it really doesn't look like one.)
Implying dreams that you had as a child, or later in life, but never pursued though they consumed your mind?

And it seems like there's a bit of a wedding dress peeking out. I could be wrong, though.
Implying that the person in the photograph (you, in this instance) feels like they will never find true love?

I'm unsure on that one... after studying it a little more, from the angle it was taken at, it seems like the person is pregnant?
Which would kind of go along with the marriage bit. But then not everyone is as old fashioned as I am about no-sex-before-marriage, so just ignore that last bit if you feel differently.


Could you explain this in depth?

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here's to you getting a remote pretty soon

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first off, Sorry about the poor quality. I've been having some problems with people taking my photos and putting them on photobucket and myspace without my permission so I have to put up smaller jpeg copies now people can be so inconsiderate.

there is a lot that is sort of tied up in this, I would be more than happy to discuss it though I am a bit out of my head so if things don't make sense I'll try and clarify.

if I had to condense it down to basic elements It is a woman, who is pregnant, preparing for her wedding. The thing on her head is my idea of a makeshift veil (okay, so its a petticoat cut up and stapled to a sheet. , but, logistics aside, it's a veil). But, the material is also similar to a beekeepers mask.

As far as what it means to me and what my intent was there are a few different themes.

1)Pregnancy. I am from a large family. I have 12 sisters and the number is always expanding. I love children but medically it looks like I'm probably incapable of having them, at least biologically. I'm adopted, so I know the angst that goes along with that and while I think it's beautiful, and I'm grateful, I don't know if I could deal with my child feeling that way too.

2)The veil and dress I would link up with weddings and marriage. I have something called borderline personality disorder and one of the ways that it effects me is a constant feeling of abandonment. I feel like I need to get married so that I won't be alone, so that my fiance won't abandon me, but sadly we have a bit of a rocky relationship and though we've been engaged for 3 years I have no ring, I have a hollow promise and I'm scared to death that that's all it is. That it won't happen and that I'll end up alone in love and without children when I die.

3)The bee keeper bit. Bees have always had a very strong symbolic meaning to me. When they sting you they die, sort of a spiteful thing to do really. You hurt me, I'll hurt you, even if it spells the end of me. I'll take it to my grave. but they are also signs of industry and creativity. The title itself comes from a sylvia plath poem (whose father happened to be a beekeeper)

In the description I also have a link to a song by neutral milk hotel titled "A baby for Pree"

" Blistering Pree, all smiling and swollen
Makes babies to breathe
With their hearts hanging open all over the sheets
As soft as beets in some brown dresser drawer

And with bees in her breath and the rest of her ringing
They'll sting through her chest with a force hard and beating
Until wonderfully wet she will get
Until she's soaked inside her clothes
And there is no sorry to be sorry for

For a roll around the floor some afternoon so sound and soft
It made her swallow all her sweat
With every bit of breath she coughs
And when the day it came to pour all her babies
All across the bathroom floor
She will be swimming in them all forevermore"

which is what started the whole thought process behind it and sort of bound all of these elements together for me. The song (to me at least) is about a young girl, who has sex out of wedlock, gets pregnant, has an abortion, and dies, but feels guilty because she understands that there are so many women out there who would love to experience pregnancy but are infertile.


and, going back to the veil/mask...it's such an odd culture to have. It's distancing yourself at one of the most intimate moments in your life. So when you combine that up it tells a small story. You have a young, rural girl, the setting to me is probably late 19th century when the taboos were really full force, she is so scared of being alone that she has sex with the first guy that bats an eye at her and she gets pregnant so that he'll be forced to marry her, and now she is getting ready for the ceremony, looking at her growing stomach, but still young and caught up in her other dreams so she hides behind her veil and bites the bullet.

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