077 - Ania in Yellow

077 - Ania in Yellow
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

I am fascinated by simple blocks, either of colour or actual symmetric elements, they insist that what you are looking at is not a simple, well-taken photograph but something that someone has worked on beyond getting the settings right in the camera. To me the actual taking of the photo is like prepping a canvas - important, but not the essential expression of the final piece.

Ania dressed up for her hairdresser because she wanted him to be sure that he was not dealing with yet another middle-aged woman wanting one of the traditional stock haircuts. We were sitting in a slightly tacky cafe, but I think the resulting image, after my work, has managed to transcend that and, dare I say it, achieved the effect the cafe owners probably intended.