The Most Beautiful Suicide, 01/May/1947

Saw this image whilst surfing on web. I don't think words are enough to describe the feeling it gives. When you first look at the photograph, you don't think it's real, almost like it's a set up scene and she isn't actually dead. And I guess that is the part that I become speechless,  that fact that she looks so much in peace.
The interesting and eerie story behind the image has also been beautifully reflected using an important element in photography: form.

Some images do not include an interesting content but an interesting (and simply beautiful looking) form, like Edward Weston's Pepper. But with the image The Most Beautiful Suicide we can see that when the use of form and content are combined, the outcome will most probably be impressive.

"On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure."

Another rainy day in England

The other day, I was working on my project that had a deadline to the following day. It was just before midnight that -not surprisingly- it started to rain. The rain that was hitting my window seemed so inspiring that i had to stop working on my project and take my camera out.

Surely, taking a picture of rain marks on a window seemed dull, there had to be something, or someone in the picture. Since I was alone in my room, my only option was to create a self-portait. So I did.

Placed the camera on top of two Nutella jars, pointed at the window and made sure that my reflection was in the picture. Probably took about 150 images because it was hard to go back and look at the images, considering that the camera was placed on a very unbalanced surface. Yet, I managed to capture a self-portrait, that I was very pleased with.

One other thing that caught my attention was my pin-boards reflection on the window. When combined with the florescent lamp, the colours and the outline of the posts on the pin-board created and image that is hard to figure out at first glance.