Something Borrowed.

This a black and white image, the man in vest and hat and holds deer’s skull in the middle of the picture and sit there. The background is not clear, could be a stone mountain or a forest. The man looks like mid-age and brown Asian face, he has bread under the nose but no chin. He is staring somewhere and maybe focus on the old memory. His tie is bright, could be white or yellow, and the tie is done by a simple knot, an easy and nice way. There is a little wrinkle in the top of tie, and the left collar is in the outside of the vest. Don’t know it is happened by careless or accident. He wears a tartan vest with blue or gray shirt, all his cloth are nice and neat. He stay here, the environment is quite and peace or distressed. He is frowning slightly, could be a bad memory leads to or maybe he frowning all the time, and then the wrinkle makes him like frowning even he is not. His hand is big and fingernails are clipped appropriately.

Where I am? Who am I? Why I am sitting here?

Ok, let me see, I am an Asian guy, China? Korea? Japan?

No, look my skin, brown, probably I am from the South East Asia.

What I am staring, what’s my feeling?

I am staring somewhere but it doesn’t matter.

I feel lonely? Perplexed? No, I am concentrating on something.

It could be an old memory, maybe I have been here before.

The stone at the corner recalls my old story, so I am staring out of the camera.

What I am holding? Deer skulls?

I don’t know, is the antler mean something? Yes, obviously, all these things are my war trophies.

I am a good hunter. They are the king of the deer, smart and clever or cunning.

But I am better than them, I am the real king of this island.

So, why I am not happy, or even feel sad?

What is the life I want? What is the life?

I am confused, again and again.

From my experience, the hard thing of shooting picture with model is capture the emotion with the appropriate setting. I could do hide and shoot but when I try to shoot in front of the person, they were too nervous to be shoot. So, when I see the picture came out, it’s always not satisfied. This picture shows me a good model, the person and the picture. What the relationship between them.