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For what it's worthby =jonathoncomfortreed

Photography / Still Life / Other

Project 52, week 5
^{[my theme]}
The song: Don't Let Them See You Cry (listen to it on YouTube here)
The lyrics:

Don't let them see you cry
When the dam breaks down and the city is covered in water.
'Cause I believe we fly
When the moon takes shape and I dose off, on your shoulders.

I trust that you see it too.

So breathe while you're alive.
Let the big band play as you tap leather with your fingers.
And I tried to write in style,
But the words just come and I write them as soon as I see them.

And I trust that you write them too.
And I trust that you love me too.

The inspiration: This is an extremely tragic, extremely beautiful song. I was inspired mainly by the ... feeling of the song, in general. I listen to it sometimes when I'm going to sleep, and it just seems so fragile. And sadly romantic. A semi-wilting flower seemed to fit.

The last two lines also particularly inspired me. The song seems too sad to be a perfect love song – I was torn between depicting unrequited and forgotten love. In the end the past tense made it pretty simple to convey, I think. And, of course, the "write them" aspect was what resulted in my idea of writing on the flower petal.

The words I choice seemed right because it's such a direct sentence. With "the words just come and I write them as soon as I see them" I tried to make it seem like there was no thought, just emotion. If that makes sense.

The technique: These flowers are from a funeral. My dad's a minister, right, so every now and then he brings home the flowers from church. (He actually brought these for valentines day and tried to make it seem romantic. Cute, eh?) I'm glad he brought them, though. This somewhat wilted rose was the perfect set for the shot – plus there's a pretty tragic backstory to the photo.

Anyways, I just got my mom to hold her finger under the petal for me and wrote "i loved you" on with a pen. I already knew this, but you might not: flower petals are a lot harder to write on than you would think because they repel the ink and they're really fragile. Actually, if you look closely, you can see the ink in the "i" is totally not absorbed and is just sitting on the petal. Looks really cool.

It was a relatively fast shoot. The lighting was perfect, the settings were easy. Took a couple of shots and was done.

> View all of my Project 52 submissions.

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`VintageWarmth Dec 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

beautiful!

=jonathoncomfortreed Dec 15, 2011 Student Photographer

Thank you.

~stako Jun 24, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

Amazing, great job! ^^

=jonathoncomfortreed Jun 29, 2011 Student Photographer

I appreciate it.

~ChameleoN136 Jun 10, 2011 Professional Photographer

Such a lovely picture. I like it

=jonathoncomfortreed Jun 10, 2011 Student Photographer

Thank you.

~emocutter91 Jun 5, 2011

God, this is so beautiful... I actually just let a tear escape but had to stop the rest from coming because my eyeliner will smear if i cry. But this is beautiful and makes me feel so many emotions:') Wonderful xoxo Jamie

=jonathoncomfortreed Jun 7, 2011 Student Photographer

Thanks so much, I'm glad it touched you.

~beatifique Apr 30, 2011

Aww.

Sad but beautiful. Love the colors!

=jonathoncomfortreed May 31, 2011 Student Photographer

Thanks a lot.

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