yourtourniquet as a livejournal.friend for over two years now, and I count her journal among my very favorites, in fact I've gushed about it in the past somewhat publicly. This past weekend, I was afforded the chance to meet her for the first time and meet the woman behind the words of her journal and the lens of her camera. When I began the SHOW US YOUR GAMS challenge, she was one of the earliest submissions; but I've been holding onto it for last. While I've loved each and every photo I've received, this just has... everything. It has a pretty girl with nice legs; it must be nice when you can be your own model! The subject is stylishly presented in a manner which is evocative and suggestive, just bordering on erotic, without being trashy or tasteless. She made great use of less than ideal lighting in a unique location and nailed the composition. I could enumerate the reasons I love this photo all day long, but I'll reduce my blathering and get to the photo save one more thing. I'd like to point out something in the photograph you might miss with just a cursory glance. A thread through much of Patty's photographs of people, whether it be of herself or other people is that they are almost always doing something interesting with their hands. Consider 4 of her 6 LiveJournal user pics:
The following photo continues in this tradition. I'm going to put it behind a cut due to it's (very mildly) erotic nature. There is no nudity outside of what you would see at the pool or beach, but given the strength of this photo, it would definitely turn some heads in the workplace that you might not want turned. I also wanted to kinda have it REVEALED after you read the introduction. This has been a lot of fun, and no doubt will become an annual summer event 'round here. I posted a total of 38 photos over the course of the summer thanks to you. If you'd like a one-stop place to see them all again, you can just follow this handy-dandy link to my LiveJournal Scrapbook. My thanks to everyone who participated.
Wow.
I personally love all the triangles.
How come we never saw your legs, you sexy mother fucker?
She wins!
She's beautiful.
And the urban decay-ness around her adds to it for me. I'd LOVE to just lay in a abandoned building and just fuck someones brains out.
how romantic :)
very good photo, too.
you're also the first person to notice my hand obsession.
that barn stood just like this for my entire life but has been remodeled in the last couple weeks. i'm glad i got this while i could.
You tipped me off to your hand obsession in a comment to a picture I took of Erin one time. I think it was one of the photos from the cornfield when she has the sheer scarf twisted around her wrists and her fingers are lightly grasping it. You said something like that was the best part of the picture. After that, I just started noticing it in your photographs a lot. :)
Pure, raw. Total in her humanity.
Thank you for sharing this of her.
Awwwww!
I had to glance at her journal after your description, and I have to say she seems just as beautiful on the inside.
Hey! How fortunate that you responded to this. I'm gonna be in Memphis tonight. I'm delivering to the airport in the morning. Right now we're in Little Rock, which puts us about 3 hours out, so it'll be late when I get in. I don't know what kinda hours you and Charlie keep, and being a Friday night, if you already have plans, but I thought I'd let you know that I'm around.
Wow. Thanks for sharing!
Scarves!
Because I have a shitload of neat ones, but hideous fucking legs (which is why I never posted any gams).
Re: Scarves!