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why i like this

Flickr is fairly groaning under the volume of naked girls, a great many of whom are submerged within the notion that they are creating 'art' (the rest are just sharing straight-up pornography, for whatever reasons). But mostly what you get is a lot of naked girls wearing antlers, naked girls in the cemetery, naked girls on the beach, naked girls in wheat fields, in the forest, in their bedroom, with a mirror, in an old car, smoking too much, etcetera, etcetera. So to see something original in the naked-girl genre is rather arresting. And this photograph does that with light and perspective. That's it. And with just those two elements, this girl becomes a tower of sinister mystery.

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By the photographer April-Lea. You can see her flickr stream here, but I'll warn you that the content is adult.
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  1. Holly1:00 am

    hahaha, yes. have you seen Put A Bird On It? i hold that a thin girl is the flickr equivalent of a bird.

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  2. Tami Cohen1:06 pm

    arresting indeed. nice

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  3. Lulu LaBonne5:37 pm

    That is a lovely photo, just been catching up and got lost in a maze of links ... how do we ever get anything done now we have this ... this web thing?

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  4. Michelle8:39 am

    So...I'm scrolling through "recent posts" and stop at this photo. Didn't even read what you wrote at first; it didn't matter. Hot. Excellent use of lighting of course, you're right.

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