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Leaping Ballet Dancer Expressing Joy, Freedom and Vitality

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Ballet Dancing Ballerina Leaping High Through A Sky of Morning Clouds Showing Joy, Freedom and Vitality.

This ballerina is a perfect expression of vitality, joy and freedom as she leaps gracefully through the sky filled with light clouds lit by the morning sun. This is an optimistic image of possibility, strength, grace and power. The image is a collaboration by Tanya Harding, who photographed the ballerina, and me (John Lund). I photographed the clouds and did the Photoshop work to create the composite image. There is just a hint of motion in the dancer, and the lighting works perfectly with the direct, but still soft, morning light that brings out the texture and lightness of the tropical clouds.


Dancers as metaphor in stock photography and life

Dancers are great to work with for stock photographers for several reasons. They are symbols of grace and beauty, but require discipline and strength, perseverance and dedication to reach their potential. They appear delicate and yet must be tough. They represent high ideals, the pinnacle of what is good about society. Dancers express the range of human emotions in the physical movements reflecting a truth that can be lost when we go too deeply into our minds and away from our bodies. Dancers are, in effect, more in tune with nature and the natural. They are what we aspire to. They provide an example of what hard work and motivation can lead to. Dancers are rich in metaphor and symbol.


Collaboration as a means to better stock photos

Often we forget the potential benefits of collaboration and teamwork. This image is a great example of Tanya being an excellent dance photographer (a former dancer herself) and teaming up with me and my Photoshop experience. We each played to our strengths and came away with an image that is truly greater than the sum of its parts. This is one of my favorite images and never fails to lift my spirits when I look at it.


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