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in the dim stillness of la misericòrdia in palma, where the grand processions of semana santa begin their solemn march, i stood quietly in the corner. the scent of incense clung to the air. a hooded figure, faceless and serene, emerged from the shadows, clutching a towering cross adorned in gold. this wasn’t just ritual – it was reverence in motion. tradition whispered through every fold of his robe, through every echoing footstep in the courtyard. i didn’t ask for permission. i witnessed. i remembered.
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
Organization: Creative Light Photography
Organization: Tim Engle
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer.
Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
A lively studio portrait capturing a joyful young woman in a dynamic pose against a smooth, dark gradient background. The image conveys energy, spontaneity, and confidence as the subject balances gracefully while smiling directly toward the camera. Her relaxed expression and playful posture create an engaging visual narrative that feels both natural and expressive.
Soft, directional studio lighting highlights the contours of the face and figure while preserving a clean and polished look. The minimalist backdrop eliminates distractions, allowing attention to remain focused on the subject's movement, personality, and connection with the viewer. The combination of casual styling, flowing hair, and elegant body language creates a contemporary portrait that blends fashion, lifestyle, and artistic photography.
The photograph emphasizes positivity and youthful spirit through thoughtful composition and professional lighting techniques. The dynamic pose adds a sense of motion and individuality, making the image well suited for themes related to happiness, confidence, beauty, lifestyle, modern portraiture, and creative studio photography.
One frame, a lifetime beneath the surface.
Shot on Canon EOS RP 24-105mm f/4
Edited on Affinity Photo
Elle ne pose pas vraiment. Elle tient le sabre comme on tient une position. Les mains sont fermes, le regard ne cherche pas à séduire et la lumière découpe le visage en laissant tout le reste dans l’ombre. Il y a quelque chose de presque brutal dans cette image. Pas à cause du sabre, mais à cause de cette impression qu’elle ne reculera pas. On peut lui demander beaucoup de chose, on peut essayer de la faire plier, mais pas de la faire céder!
EN She is not really posing. She holds the sword the way you hold your ground. Her hands are firm, her gaze is not trying to please, and the light cuts across her face while leaving almost everything else in darkness.
There is something almost brutal about this image. Not because of the sword, but because of the feeling that she simply will not step back. You can ask a lot from he, you can try to make her bend, but you cannot make her yield!
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
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A cinematic portrait of a modern muse: her long, black hair arcs outward in sweeping waves, alive with its own current. Draped in low‑cut black attire, her luminous skin becomes a canvas for shadow and light, each strand of hair rendered with meticulous precision. Between realism and fantasy, she emerges as a vision of strength, allure, and motion — a still frame that feels like it might breathe.
Captured in ultra‑high definition, this image is both intimate and mythic, a study of beauty in motion and stillness intertwined.
✒️ “The Current Within Her”
Her hair is a tide,
black rivers unmoored,
each strand a current
pulling the silence apart.
She stands in the hush
between shadow and flame,
skin luminous as a lantern
against the storm of her own making.
The air bends to her motion,
yet she is still —
a statue of breath,
a myth caught mid‑song.
In her gaze,
the weight of oceans,
in her stillness,
the promise of thunder.
She is not waiting.
She is becoming.
Summer Sunset ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
South Florida ~ Palm Beach County, Florida
6-Shot Summer Sun Set ~ Quarta Sunset 283
(five more photos of this night in the comments)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades
"Blue Bayou" - Linda Ronstadt - Live 1977
In a break from my normal type of Imagery, I spent a few days out in London trying out some street photography.
FR Elle veille entre deux mondes, là où la lumière tremble sans jamais s’éteindre.
Une flamme fragile au creux des mains, comme un cœur battant dans l’obscurité.
Ses ailes ne sont plus que silence, et pourtant elles portent encore la clarté.
Dans la nuit qui l’entoure, elle n’éclaire pas. Elle se souvient de la lumière.
EN She lingers between two worlds, where light trembles but never fades.
A fragile flame rests in her hands, like a heartbeat within the dark.
Her wings have turned to silence, yet they still carry the glow.
In the night that surrounds her, she does not shine. She remembers the light.
...and I move about this world
with a healthy disbelief
and approach my days and my work
with vaporous consequence
a touch that is translucent
but can violate stone.
~J. Kilcher
343/366
HBW!
The Challenge Factory winner - LEAVES challenge.
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend a workshop put on by the Arizona Professional Photographer's Association at the Canyon Creek Ranch in Arizona. There were a series of workshops put on to teach us various techniques for lighting in different scenarios using all different methods of providing light. This workshop provided the models, the settings and the instructors to show us appropriate lighting for different scenarios.
This shot was from a lesson put on by one of the instructors, Bob Coates, who was demonstrating lighting using continuous LED lights and modifiers which were provided by Westcott Lighting. The model's name is Jerry Thomas. The advantages of LED lighting are that you see what you're getting in real time. The disadvantages are that the lights are not as strong as regular flashes, so you end up using higher iso's, but with today's camera sensors, higher ISO's are not so much of a problem as they used to be. In this shot a large softbox with a grid was positioned at camera left and above the model, but the participants could see what the lighting results were before taking the shot. I used NIK software's Silver Efex Pro 2 to convert my image to black and white.
Other images that I took during the day long workshop at Canyon Creek Ranch are in my Canyon Creek Ranch Album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157659532479014
Other portraits that I've taken, either by design or by luck, are in my creatively titled Portrait album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157661525864981
Other black and white images that I've attempted can be seen in my creatively named Black And White Album.
Le calme est souvent pris pour de l'absence.
Il est pourtant l'une des formes les plus exigeantes de la maîtrise. Certains élèvent la voix pour exister pendant que d'autres n'ont besoin que d'un regard pour rappeler que la véritable force ne cherche jamais à être démontrée.
EN Calm is often mistaken for absence.
Yet it may be the most demanding form of strength. Some people raise their voice to be noticed. Others only need a glance to remind us that real strength never feels the need to prove itself.
FR Cinq instants volés, cinq éclats de lumière.
Un regard qui perce l’obscurité, une âme qui se révèle dans un trait de clarté.
Five stolen moments, five glimmers of light.
A gaze piercing the darkness, a soul revealed by a single beam.
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Althought some people might be tired of sunrises/sunsets, I believe that it is the most dramatic part of the day, therefore I've decided to post another photo that was taken during this time of a day. Colors of this sunset remind me more of painting than photo. I've chosen this composition where the silhouette is very small and give lot of space to the sky/nature, which is exactly how it is in Mongolia - vast areas of nature and pure nothing.
This photo with amazing sky was taken in Ongiin Khiid monastery. The ruined monastery lies in two halfs on the banks of the Ongiin river. It was destroyed by the communist purges of the thirties and is being restored by a number of monks. It is an amazing site and stretches across the valley in the mountainous area around the river. There is not much left from the original place therefore I was happy to capture that beautiful sunset with the silhouette of pavilion.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL, f/8, 0.008 sec (1/125), ISO 400, 59 mm
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That waterfall again! Rained all day the previous day and swollen the beck.
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Strong winter sunshine lights up a large part of Ettersgill under a dark sky.
Elle ne tient pas l’épée pour faire peur. Elle la tient comme on tient une décision. Le visage est calme, presque tranquille. Mais dans le regard, quelque chose ne cède pas. La lumière rouge durcit les contours, les ombres passent sur son visage comme des barreaux, et l’épée devient une ligne qui sépare le doute du reste. Il y a des combats qui ne font aucun bruit.
Pas de cris, pas de victoire à célébrer. Seulement cette force intérieure qui dit : je suis encore là.
EN She does not hold the sword to frighten anyone. She holds it like a decision. Her face is calm, almost quiet. But there is something in her eyes that refuses to give way. The red light sharpens the image, shadows cross her face like bars, and the sword becomes a line between doubt and everything that comes after. Some battles make no noise. No shouting, no victory to celebrate. Just that quiet strength that says: I am still here.
Une allumette ne dure jamais très longtemps. C’est peut-être pour ça qu’on la regarde. Pendant quelques secondes, elle éclaire juste assez pour faire apparaître un visage, une pensée, peut-être même quelque chose qu’on aurait préféré laisser dans le noir. Elle la tient entre ses doigts avec cette tranquillité étrange de ceux qui savent que certaines choses ne demandent pas beaucoup de lumière pour revenir. Puis la flamme s’éteindra comme toutes les petites choses que l’on croit pouvoir retenir. Mais il restera peut-être cette seconde-là, celle où elle regardait le feu comme si elle y cherchait une réponse...
EN A match never lasts very long. Maybe that's why we watch it. For a few seconds, it gives just enough light to reveal a face, a thought, perhaps even something we would rather have left in the dark. She holds it between her fingers with that strange calm of someone who knows that some things don't need much light to come back. Then the flame will go out like all the little things we think we can hold on to. But perhaps this second will remain. The one where she looked into the flame as if she were searching for an answer...
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Talk about a day of contrasts! One minute its bright, next minute its chucking it down. Some quite spectacular lighting created by this bright interval even as the heavy rain falls.
Hi I met Esmee as part of this project recently at Hyde Park as she was walking to Art Gallery. She is hailed from Holland and came to Australia for her studies. We talked about her life, upbringing, likes and dislikes, work etc. It was long fun encounter where I tried different aspects as composition background.
If you are interested about the whole episode, please head over to my website following this link as it contains much more information and many more images.
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(Constructive) Criticism is welcome as usual
This picture is #39 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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Still working on this nice sunset... incorporated many different foreground elements and angles... was a fun summer night.
South Florida ~ Palm Beach County ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
(five more photos from 'this night' in the comments)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades
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"It's Five O'clock Somewhere" - Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett
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I really thought a reddish background against the reddish outfit would be a mistake. Well, with processing in Lightroom, the colors blend quite well.
There are moments when a face tries to disappear, yet the truth refuses to hide. In this frame, a single eye breaks through the shelter of folded hands, holding a quiet storm of fear, strength, and unspoken thought. It is the look of someone caught between shielding themselves from the world and needing the world to understand. A portrait shaped by shadow, colour, and silence, a reminder that even when we cover our face, the soul still asks to be seen.