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Sweet Surrender – Photo Series
Model: Racheeda2000
Location: Sweet Surrender
Set within a dreamlike coastal landscape, Sweet Surrender unfolds as a visual journey between serenity, intimacy, and quiet strength. The location blends natural elements—rock formations, flowing water, lush greenery, and open sea views—into a poetic environment that feels both secluded and timeless.
Racheeda2000 moves through the scenery with effortless elegance, her presence calm yet expressive. Whether reclining on sunlit wooden decks, resting near gentle campfires inside coastal caves, or standing poised against vast ocean horizons, she becomes an organic part of the environment rather than a subject placed within it.
Soft natural lighting, combined with carefully chosen perspectives, highlights subtle emotions: contemplation, confidence, and surrender to the moment. The contrast between open landscapes and intimate spaces creates a cinematic rhythm—wide shots emphasize freedom and scale, while close-ups draw attention to refined details, facial expressions, and posture.
Sweet Surrender is not just a location, but a mood: a quiet escape where time slows, nature embraces the subject, and beauty reveals itself through stillness and balance.
September 6, 2022 - Unconditional Surrender - Embracing Peace Kissing Soldiers Statue in front of the U.S.S. Midway Museum. This Iconic Statue is a huge tourist attraction in San Diego, CA.
Appomattox Court House / Formal Surrender Ceremony / Union Line at Court House / Confederate Force at Attention / Dignity in Defeat / Stacked Arms # 3
for "Photoshop Contest Week 4"
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original photo by belgianchocolate: www.flickr.com/photos/frank-wouters/12873746/
It was agreed that if my 4-H Cloverbuds could reach a goal set for them this year they could throw a pie in my face at our last meeting. They surpassed the goal 5 times over. I was in for it! Thankfully, I only agreed to one pie. It was actually pretty fun and they practically licked me clean.
On A beautiful day I took some toy knights left over from a party out to the woods to play with focal points. The warriors fought over a hunk of rock.
There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
-John C. Reilly
(Best viewed large.)
“Unconditional Surrender” which is based on the “A kiss to Remember” photograph.
Picture taken at USS Midway Museum • San Diego California.
“Unconditional Surrender,” is 25-foot, 6,000 pound statue by world-renowned artist J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo. (photos)
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The Fine People At Wikipeda have this to say about the original picture(s) this was based on.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%E2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square
V–J day in Times Square, perhaps the most famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945, that was originally published in Life magazine. (The photograph is known under various names: V-J day in Times Square, V-Day, etc.[1])
Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the V-J celebrations he didn't get a chance to get names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either kisser and several people have laid claim to being the subjects. The photo was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%E2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square
However it does seem this statute is based on another photo taken at the same time by a navy photographer. (from the same Wiki entry):
U.S. Navy photo journalist Victor Jorgensen captured another view of the same scene, which was published in the New York Times.[4] This photograph shows less of Times Square in the background and does not show the full body of either the sailor or the nurse. Unlike the Eisenstaedt photograph, this photograph is in the public domain (by virtue of being produced by a federal government employee on official position).
i loved this issue, with this cool artist chick on the cover, and this article about her and her bf inside, and their funky art-filled life.
fall 1987
“Unconditional Surrender” which is based on the “A kiss to Remember” photograph.
Picture taken at USS Midway Museum • San Diego California.
“Unconditional Surrender,” is 25-foot, 6,000 pound statue by world-renowned artist J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo. (photos)
*****
The Fine People At Wikipeda have this to say about the original picture(s) this was based on.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%E2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square
V–J day in Times Square, perhaps the most famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945, that was originally published in Life magazine. (The photograph is known under various names: V-J day in Times Square, V-Day, etc.[1])
Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the V-J celebrations he didn't get a chance to get names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either kisser and several people have laid claim to being the subjects. The photo was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%E2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square
However it does seem this statute is based on another photo taken at the same time by a navy photographer. (from the same Wiki entry):
U.S. Navy photo journalist Victor Jorgensen captured another view of the same scene, which was published in the New York Times.[4] This photograph shows less of Times Square in the background and does not show the full body of either the sailor or the nurse. Unlike the Eisenstaedt photograph, this photograph is in the public domain (by virtue of being produced by a federal government employee on official position).
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These are my original works of art, please respect my copyright on these images and do not use without permission.
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I surrender to the godess of death, the very same one who took Ernesto's body full of bullet holes...
My, my, at Watergrove, Napoleon did surrender
Oh, yeah and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself
Watergrove, I was defeated, you won the war
Watergrove, promise to love you forevermore
Watergrove, couldn't escape if I wanted to
Watergrove, knowing my fate is to be with you
Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Watergove
Finally facing my Watergrove
Watergrove, couldn't escape if I wanted to
How could I refuse? I feel like I win when I lose...
Evidently, this was the meeting table around which the allied leaders negotiated the German surrender after WWII.
The dreaded militants of HUJI and HM sitting in a queue before surrendering before the GOC 15 Corps Mr A.S.Sekhon in awantipura .The militants hailing from Doda district of J&K laid down arms in presence of GOC 15 Corps Mr A.S.Sekhon and GOC Victor force and senior civil and police officers of the administration.