Lust.
This is racy for me. I never would have been able to post a picture like this a year ago. I'm sure that my family will be a little uncomfortable, but you know what? This, to me, is such a symbol of how far I've come both in terms of confidence in my composition skills as a photographer and also in my self confidence and comfort in my own skin. It helps that I've lost about thirty pounds since I started this 365 too. Anyway, this is day five of my series for Seven Deadly Sins Week in totw. Today I give you lust.
Lust or lechery is usually thought of as excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Aristotle's criterion was excessive love of others, which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. In Dante's Purgatorio, the penitent walks within flames to purge himself of lustful/sexual thoughts and feelings. In Dante's "Inferno", unforgiven souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane like winds symbolic of their own lack of self control to their lustful passions in earthly life.
One outtake in the comments that is super similar because I really couldn't decide which I liked better. And you should know my m.o. by now...if I can't choose, I just throw the second choice up in the comments. ;)
365 Days (self portraits): Day 359
TOTW: Seven Deadly Sins - Lust
52 Weeks of Feeling Fit: Week 12
Lust.
This is racy for me. I never would have been able to post a picture like this a year ago. I'm sure that my family will be a little uncomfortable, but you know what? This, to me, is such a symbol of how far I've come both in terms of confidence in my composition skills as a photographer and also in my self confidence and comfort in my own skin. It helps that I've lost about thirty pounds since I started this 365 too. Anyway, this is day five of my series for Seven Deadly Sins Week in totw. Today I give you lust.
Lust or lechery is usually thought of as excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Aristotle's criterion was excessive love of others, which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. In Dante's Purgatorio, the penitent walks within flames to purge himself of lustful/sexual thoughts and feelings. In Dante's "Inferno", unforgiven souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane like winds symbolic of their own lack of self control to their lustful passions in earthly life.
One outtake in the comments that is super similar because I really couldn't decide which I liked better. And you should know my m.o. by now...if I can't choose, I just throw the second choice up in the comments. ;)
365 Days (self portraits): Day 359
TOTW: Seven Deadly Sins - Lust
52 Weeks of Feeling Fit: Week 12