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Strobist ~ One Light, at left ~Canon Speedlite 580EX II ~ CS Shoot Through Umbrella ~ Triggered by Pocketwizards Plus II and Mini TT

 

This was such an amazing shoot, a big thank you to Yolit, who braved the rain and was a true trooper. This shot reminded me of the poem The Lady of Shalott, (below is a small selection of it)

 

The Lady of Shalott,

 

Part iii First published in 1833.

"And moving thro' a mirror clear

That hangs before her all the year,

Shadows of the world appear.

There she sees the highway near

Winding down to Camelot:

There the river eddy whirls,

And there the surly village-churls, [7]

And the red cloaks of market girls,

Pass onward from Shalott.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad,

An abbot on an ambling pad,

Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad,

Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad,

Goes by to tower'd Camelot;

And sometimes thro' the mirror blue

The knights come riding two and two:

She hath no loyal knight and true,

The Lady of Shalott."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1883

Done