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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.
I just took a random shot into the crowd. It looks like I may have caught something here.
A furtive glance.
A meaningful stare.
A drunken gaze.
Something.
Unconditional Surrender by Seward Johnson based on the famous post-WWII photo by Victor Jorgensen. I saw this statue originally when it was first installed in Times Square. I wasn't able to find information on this, but I know I have photos of it from back then--perhaps 2010.
Tuna Harbor Park. San Diego, California.
"Unconditional Surrender," a 25-foot tall statue, sits next to San Diego Bay in photo given art look with Topaz Simplify software. Photo by Scott Harrison
The Surrender by Yue Minjun
Oil Painting Reproduction
You can see more of Yue Minjun's work at www.remediosvaro.biz/yue_minjun.html
“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).
Went to Dunraven Bay this evening where I met up with opobs, Leighton & Angela. Having just seen the stunning image posted by opobs, I may just have to hang up my camera and call it a day. This is just a bit of oversaturated nonsense compared to his masterpiece.
for "Photoshop Contest Week 4"
www.flickr.com/groups/topic/32964/
original photo by belgianchocolate: www.flickr.com/photos/frank-wouters/12873746/
"Unconditional Surrender", a 25-foot statue created by renowned artist J. Seward Johnson, was temporarily taken down from its location along the bayfront in Sarasota, FL so that it can undergo maintenance in New Jersey. It will make the 1,100 mile trip on the back of this truck. Check out my daily photo blog: www.srqjet.blogspot.com
The series is called and celebrates Mother Earth. They are as always, handcut collages and feature women from old German FKK (naturism) magazines combined with images from vintage books about marine invertebrates. The first animals in the world lived in the sea and some of these still do. It's where we all come from.
• Materials: vintage magazines and books, scissors, glue, tape
• Dimensions: ±15x22cm
• inspirations: almost all my collages series are inspired by women and nature, in different combinations. for instance in the series FLORIALIA I combined and intertwined girls from old erotic magazines with images from a book about how to take care of house plants. for this series: see above.
I caved in.
Told myself i wouldn't take a picture of any kind of Cherry Blossom during the Spring weather. But it was just too pretty. However, satisfied of the result.
-Free lensed
-Canon T1i
-Photoshop
Total Surrender
"...When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment…and plunged into the sea." [John 21:7]
Have you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of the will. You may come to that point many times externally, but it will amount to nothing. The true deep crisis of abandonment, or total surrender, is reached internally, not externally. The giving up of only external things may actually be an indication of your being in total bondage. Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction. If you focus your attention on the emotion, you will never make the transaction. Do not ask God what the transaction is to be, but make the determination to surrender your will regarding whatever you see, whether it is in the shallow or the deep, profound places internally. If you have heard Jesus Christ’s voice on the waves of the sea, you can let your convictions and your consistency take care of themselves by concentrating on maintaining your intimate relationship to Him. Amen, HALLELUJAH God bless