Feliciano Lopez

Assignment: Life and Light

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Portray spirit of life (people, pets, other animals, birds) with good light and shadow!

 

Have fun :-)

 

DARE: Depict passion or spirit or enthusiasm of life.

 

RESTRICTION: Try to use a single, original image. Colour saturation, cropping ... to enhance photo OK, but no 'extreme' photo shopping.

 

What it took:

This is Feliciano Lopez. Apart from being gorgeous, he's also the #32 ranked male tennis player in the world. This photo was taken when he was practising during the Australian Open held in Melbourne.

 

There were hordes of women taking photos of him (understandably!) so I could only get to a spot looking into the sun. There was slight cropping involved and a little fill-in light added.

 

As for spirit of life... you can almost see the blood flowing through his veins and almost feel the energy it takes to hit one tennis stroke.

 

This my first submission in a FlickR group so please let me know if I've neglected to do anything. Thanks :)

 

Done