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"Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy"
Image Title:  "Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy"
 
 By: Paula Goddard  
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Photographer Paula Goddard {K:8492}
Project #45 Blurry Image Camera Model Casio Exilim EX-Z4 B
Categories Others
Photoart
Film Format
Portfolio Lens 5.8-17.4
Uploaded 9/7/2004 Film / Memory Type digital
    ISO / Film Speed 0
Views 679 Shutter 1/125
Favorites Aperture f/2.8
Critiques 59 Rating Critique Only Image
Location City -  London
State - 
Country - United Kingdom   United Kingdom
About a little tribute to emily dickinson
whose poetry reflects an extoraordinary, passionate personality that she had to hide all her life
those were the days when women, passion and pleasure were an unacceptable combination...

"Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men --
Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily
When at my very Door are those possessing more,
In abject poverty --"


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There are 59 Comments in 1 Pages
  1
Gino  Quattrocchi   {K:39580} 9/7/2004
Hi Paula
today also you give the vision of the legs
for my taste yours are very more seductive
exellent


David McClenaghan   {K:9481} 9/7/2004
Why did you make Lee wear that dress?


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
hahahaha! get off! i'm trying to make some sense here! aaaaaaargh, why do i bother???

:)


Paco Ferrer   {K:8547} 9/7/2004
Very Beautiful!!!!


David McClenaghan   {K:9481} 9/7/2004
Okay sorry.
Would you prefer it if I said its a fantastic image :)


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
definitely. how did you know? :))


Giuliano Guarnieri   {K:34043} 9/7/2004
Nice tribute to ED !:-)
Also great the blurry effect and the light through the skirt

Bye

GG


Sam Dick   {K:982} 9/7/2004
Ecstacy is within and you exude a warmth and balance. Great legs which portray a happy aura.
Sam


**** *****   {K:9527} 9/7/2004
Love it! Very beautiful!


Paul Lara   {K:76962} 9/7/2004
What a great photo, and WONDERFUL sentiment, Paula!

If only more people pursued passion and pleasure, there would be less time for violence and hate!!


Pedro Libório   {K:53855} 9/7/2004
wonderful!!!!


Paolo Grusovin   {K:3344} 9/7/2004
Great!!!!


Elsje Fiederelsje   {K:6320} 9/7/2004
BEAUTIFUL!!!

greetz elly


Kevin Collier   {K:19076} 9/7/2004
great image and the commentary is great -- love the feeling of freedom and movement -- K


. .   {K:16329} 9/7/2004
I like!

[she "had" to lock herself in a room all her life?]


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
thanks a lot, Sam!! :)


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
:) thanks very much!


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
couldn't agree more, Paul! :)


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
as far as i know, John, she didn't really want to meet anybody towards the end of her life... i don't blame her. :)

she also only wore white in those days.

:)


. .   {K:16329} 9/7/2004
I think "choose"......and at an early age, as I recall. As a youth I was passionately in love with her [and Edna Millay] ...and so able at reciting her work that my seventh grade [US] nun gave me a small anthology of her lyrical works.

You "don't blame" her seclusion?....... misanthropy is sooooo tempting, isn't it? :)


david cunningham   {K:8255} 9/7/2004
paula...

i love this shot. it went into my favorites even before i commented. the motion and backlight are wonderful. i just love the grain and composition. one of my favorites of yours!

david


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
yeah, the more people you meet, the less you want to have anything to do with them... :)

ah, i'm a miserable toad, aren't i??

i used to "live on" ED, when i was younger, but i'm not so sad any more, so haven't read her lately. at university we had a huge comprehensive literature exam (US + UK + anybody who ever put pen to paper in English...) that everybody dreaded... so did i... but i was given ED and Walt Whitman at which point i started quoting ED by heart, and i got a shining first. :))
wouldn't have been half as confident about say dreiser, though.... :)


. .   {K:16329} 9/7/2004
By university I was in love with HD. :)


Anne Knes   {K:44135} 9/7/2004
Beautiful shot Paula.


Raffaello S.   {K:529} 9/7/2004
Verry nice again!!!


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
hilda dolittle?

:)


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
thank you, David! i must say i was quite pleased with it myself... :)

glad you like it!

paula


omar imam   {K:5427} 9/7/2004
cool, wish she got all the x2c she deserve..


Stephen Bowden   {K:64513} 9/7/2004
Beautiful sensual capture Paula, I love it !The composition is fabulous and gorgeous legs :-)
However, I wish I had not seen David's comment as I still have tears in my eyes from laughing !
I'm pleased you told him off though, he needs a good smack once in a while lol

Fabulous about also Paula :-)

Best wishes,
Steve


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
thank you, Stephen! glad you like it! i've been having a bit of a "photographer's block", so i'm quite happy with these new shots...

ah, David is just toooooo simple to understand sophisticated women like myself... hahahahaha.

:)


. .   {K:16329} 9/7/2004
Yes. What is it about neurotic women poets that I find so compelling? Laura Riding was another. But I skipped Slyvia Plath...fortunately! :)


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
how about anne sexton? you know that all these "confessional" poets were prescribed poetry by their analyst... as part of the therapy... very sad lives. it is probably best to skip sylvia plath... not that she's not good, but very, very depressing...


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
ah, and i don't know Laura Riding (shame on me...) but i'll look her up!

:)


Mark Julian   {K:35080} 9/7/2004
Call me Senor Stupid but where do the "Spice Girls" fit into this puzzle? Photo note- never crop at the joints - ankles, knees, wrists, etc.(just trying to pass on the very little I know, and it's even less than I think it is) :~>


. .   {K:16329} 9/7/2004
Freud had HD on his couch for a few years...even Ezra thought she was whacky. I have some Sexton although I haven't read her for awhile. Marianne Means is the only "normal" woman poet that I can think of at the moment. She must be on a very short list. :)


. .   {K:16329} 9/7/2004
She was from the south [US]. She and Graves were an item.....she was rhe otherwomen homewrecker. :)


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/7/2004
i don't suppose ezra pound was in the position to declare anyone wacky, but that's just my humble opinion... :)

surprisingly i don't know "normal" poets... so i don't know marianne means either. :)


. .   {K:16329} 9/7/2004
Means was in the modernist thing from the start........but not a manifesto type like the Imagists. Read her letters.....she owned the English language.


John Strazza   {K:12035} 9/7/2004
i love this too Paula ... my only (small) problem is the blurring or smudging you did to the right side of the legs .. not that is shouldn't have been done - but to be more invisible or descrete or un-noticed .. that aside - this is a truly woderful image Paula - with such life and emotion - it's sexy, it's life filled, sensous, fun, bright .. and on and on ... as it touched the hearts of this viewer ... love it!


Jeanette Hägglund   {K:59766} 9/8/2004
Passion, heat, soulful and so on. I can also say it?s beautiful - but mostly i like the movement, pulse and vibration.

Jeanette


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/8/2004
:) thanks, Jeanette! i'm glad you like it!

:)


Heath Bennett   {K:4429} 9/8/2004
excellent perspective and moderately low key tonality works well here. great tribute.

HB


Patrick Jacobson   {K:29151} 9/9/2004
Another picture with speed. Lovely texture on that dress.. those boots does alot asswell. One wonders what she is up to.. and what her life consists off. This is a photo that makes one think.. =) Great!!

Regards,

Patrick J


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/9/2004
i'm glad you said that, Patrick! that's what i always try and achieve with every photo i take - to make people stop and wonder for a second, or to try and figure out the story behind the image... :)

nothing else seems to make much sense to me about photography - at the moment anyway...

:)


Zsolt Radákovits   {K:7763} 9/14/2004
Na ez az!!!

Remek lendületes kép!
Csodás az anyag, remek az idő választás.
Szép a model!
Klassz a kompozíció!

Érdemes berakni a favoritok közé vagy ezt is elrabolod tölünk? ).


kita mcintosh   {K:18594} 9/16/2004
mega total magnificent...woeeeeeeeeeee and wowwwwww even. gosh i have been away only a few days and look at all the goodies i have to catch up with. will do though. ehy! Nelly one of my 8 rats died yesterday :~~(((((((((


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/18/2004
aw, i'm sorry to hear that! what was wrong?? poor little mite!

kiss


kita mcintosh   {K:18594} 9/19/2004
we thought she was mega pregnant but infact she had a massive tumor....


Magnus Beierlein   {K:1641} 9/20/2004
What can one say ! Wonderful angle and an incredible feeling of movement/rhythm in the photo. Out of the ordinaryn 7+++++

Regards Magnus


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 9/20/2004
:) thank you!

:)


Igor Kraguljac   {K:410} 9/27/2004
Very good capture, congratulations Paula.


Stephen Laszlo   {K:2086} 10/9/2004
I should have read your bio before asking you about being or at least knowing so much about Hungary and Hungarians. Great photo by the way.


Paula Goddard   {K:8492} 10/9/2004
ah, that's just a silly thing of really boring facts about me, but people seemed to be interested in it... :)


sunrise    {K:6651} 10/10/2004
I like very much this serie!


Jonathan Charles   {K:4823} 10/22/2004
You have created a good visual analogy to the ecstatic feeling of the poet in the swirling skirt and the dynamic position of her legs. Unfortunately the rest of the picture does not contribute much: the obviously manipulated carpet and neutral skirting board speak neither of ecstasy nor abject poverty but water down the overall impact; cropping her feet seems a pity when they could (literally) underpin the sense of movement. Still it's a striking shot and much more interesting than most. Best wishes, Jonathan.

PS It's just my humble opinion, I hope you don't mind the crit.


Jani Salvataggio   {K:26829} 1/26/2005
Nagggyon jó!:)
Hova tűntél rég nem jártál erre?


AAT SA   {K:4565} 10/26/2005
great capture , wonderful composition


Karina Brys   {K:16541} 2/11/2006
This really is a brilliant capture Paula!


Erland Pillegaard   {K:19668} 10/19/2006
Good capture picture
erland


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