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Through Harold’s Lens is honored to have received the “Wonderful Team Member Readership Award” from http://utesmile.wordpress.com.
Many of you know this upbeat woman from London, UK as “Ute”. I have always called her “Miss Positive”.
Whatever is happening in the world, my life, the weather, you name it, I can always depend on “Miss Positive” to find the positive ray of light. Always with a sincere dose of passion.
Ute will Ballroom dance around your feelings and Tap Dance herself into your heart. If music swings your moods, turn to Ute. She’s always dining on healthy food, slipping into meditation, balancing her beautiful life, laughing, smiling, just living in that toasty, happy zone.
Through Harold’s Lens is moved to discover that our photographic series, Sensuality of the Tango, provided deep inspiration to a poet from India, Jensy George, to create Lady in Red, a passionate 3-part poem of love, dance and revenge.
Going by the rapier blog handle, The Girl with the Scorpion Tattoo, the Sensuality of the Tango helped give Jensy the vision to unleash a powerful portfolio of words beautifully woven into a deep carpet of emotion, romance and intrigue. The Devil, fangs, red stilettos, seduction… it’s all there.
“An erupting Mt. Vesuvius of the heart and loins. I perspired as I read Lady in Red, said photographer Harold Green. “Her twist at the end was brilliant”.
“As a photographer, one of of my goals is to try to emotionally engage a viewer with my images”, said Harold. “When that happens, bells sound in my heart. A switch is flipped. An electrical connection is made. A person’s heart, mind or soul has been touched”.
Through Harold’s Lens also thanks everyone whose hearts were stirred, panting with passion, from the multi-photo series, Sensuality of the Tango .
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Argentina
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As Eva says, “It won’t be easy”.
Our dance through this Latin culture has come to an end.
But, discovery of more of our vast, rich world continues.
I hope you have enjoyed our jaunt into the fun, quirky, magical South American city of Buenos Aires.
Dancing shoes… high heel sneakers… splashes of color… deep passion… cold beer… dancing the tango.
We met many characters in a play called “Life”.
You experienced and met up close and personal:
Wild artists.… Sexy scents of women.… Hot Latin men with hip-hugging tango passions… Lush women who embrace.… Walls that talk.… Mad wives. … Slinky models molded with curves.… Hustling salesmen.… Freezing old Gauchos.… Wives that give permission.… Testosterone laden polo players.… Beautiful strolling women.… Nudes wrapped in the woods.… Personal notes to men. … Rowdy raucous football fans.… Terrors in the night.… Stunning women who go incognito.… Dramatic deaths on the big stage.… A talking Nikon camera.… Love and passion on the tango dance floor.
Did you join Through Harold’s Lens’ caravan in mid journey?
See what you missed. Fun. A bit lusty. Perky. Wild. Weird.
Through Harold’s Lens is packing his gear bag.
Time for another country. Another culture.
Thank you for all of your “Likes”, your “Comments”, our tete-a-tete and your enjoyment of what I am trying to do.
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Opera La Boheme. Act 4. Finale.
Rodolfo- Oh Mimi will you never return
Oh, beautiful days, tiny hands
the fragrance of your tresses…
…your snow white neck!
Mimi-(With great passion) Rodolfo!
Rodolfo-(Carefully, helping Mimi onto a bed) Hush now, rest.
Mimi-(Holding Rodolfo in her arms) Oh, my Rodolfo!
May I stay here with you?
Rodolfo- Ah! my dearest Mimi,
always, always!
(Gently Rodolfo persuades Mimi to lie down on the bed and covers her with a blanket Then with great care slips a pillow under Mimi’s head)
Rodolfo- Heavenly lips,
still you speak to me!
Mimi- It’s just a little cough!
I’m used to it.
Rodolfo- Rest now.
Mimi- You won’t leave me?
Rodolfo- No! No!
Mimi-
(Mimi open her eyes, stretches her hand out towards Rodolfo, then kisses him lovingly. Mimi puts her arms around Rodolfo’s neck) Your are my entire life, you are my love.
Rodolfo- Ah, Mimi,
my beautiful Mimi!
Mimi-
(She lets herself fall into his arms) Do you still find me beautiful?
Rodolfo- As lovely as the dawn.
Mimi-
(Mimi has a sudden spasm of coughing, she falls back with exhaustion)
Rodolfo-
(Alarmed, Rodolfo gently supports Mimi) Oh God! Mimi!
(Rodolfo carefully lays Mimi down on the pillow)
Mimi- I’m here… my love… always with you!
My hands… in the warm… and… to sleep
Silence…………….
Rodolfo-
(Rodolfo dashes to Mimi’s bedside, scoops her up in his arms crying out in extreme desperation)
(weeping) Mimì!… Mimì!..
THE END
Puccini’s Italian opera La Boheme is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world.
As I quietly strolled La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, I was reminded of the sad, passionate finale of the two lovers Rodolfo and Mimi. And, my tear-filled evening at the New York City Opera watching my Tenor Nephew Barton Greenplay the lead role of Rodolfo.
Relaxed
Sophie casually waited to dance
Tango music moving her spirit
Swaying to the sounds of the rhythm.
Sophie loves to dance
By herself
With a man
With a woman. Waiting to be asked.
But not for the reason the other women were waiting.
Other women wanted a fantasy.
They wanted young
Stud
Latin
Chiseled face
Piercing eyes
Hot-blood.
Shirt buttons open to six pack abs
Matted intertwined black curls to the navel
Her braless breast pressed against his chest
His pants skin tight
Firm thigh surging between her hot, quivering legs
Moist Ecstasy slowly slithering its way up against her warm, twitching belly.
Sophie just wanted to feel her inner passion.
The freedom of dancing.
The flowing.
Sophie could dance to the news.
You feel inner passion.
The keyboard of your desk
Your fingers rhythmically listening
A musical favorite.
The freedom of letting go
The spirt rising
The release.
The true name of this award to Through Harold’s Lens is “I Am Part Of The WordPress Family Award”.
I love the nickname “Feel The Love” though, as it expresses how I feel about my WordPress family.
Only a woman we all know and love, named “Hugs” could have given me this award. Her blog handle is www.Hope*the happy hugger.com. Thank you dear “Hugs” for nominating Through Harold’s Lens. You speak so softly of life, love, happiness and most of all kindness that you have a rich family of Followers from all over the world.
Dear “Hugs”, I’m sure all of them would agree that you are an ounce of gold in our treasure chest of life.
Long par 4
Dog leg left
Lush green fairway
Long steep hill
Mountain capped by an area for putting.
The little boy was only ten
Nickname: Metty
Tiger of a tyke
Sixty-five pounds
Soaking wet
A four-foot runt.
Dad’s golf bag weighed thirty-one pounds
Stood three feet tall.
Lugging the golf bag up the 2nd hole
Murder by iron and leather.
Barely lift it
Sling it forward
Dump it down
Groan. Swish. Bump.
Groan. Swish. Bump.
Groan. Swish. Bump.
Dad said the bag built character
The small whippersnapper swore quietly
Older brother Chip had taught him the words
The older brother had schlepped the bag up the 2nd hole too
Now the torch was passed.
Groan. Swish. Bump.
All day
6,262 yards
The little nipper humped Dad’s golf bag around the golf course
Week after week
Month after month
For two years.
Groan. Swish. Bump.
Sweat dripped into eyes
Muscles roared with pain.
Groan. Swish. Bump.
Soon, Dad’s male golf tradition was passed
Younger brother Bart
Another runt.
Bart renamed the 2nd hole
“The Bastard”.
Groan. Swish. Bump.
Meanwhile, the shaveling Metty took up other sports
He retired
Other sports are part of his life
Remembers times with Dad
He now plays golf
Character was built.
I saw this old, heavy, sagging leather golf bag in Buenos Aires. It tweaked memories of the great times I had on the 2nd hole, at the Owasco Country Club in Auburn, New York, as I caddied for my Dad.
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ARGENTINA Through Harold’s Lens:
They were stopped
Staring
Eyes glued to an mysterious old brown, wooden box
Young family of four wandering the antique market
My lens watched.
“Is that an old music box?”, the 12-year old boy asks his Dad
Raises iPhone at arms length and silently takes a photo
“Google it on your Mac”, says Dad.
The 10-year old sister
grasps Blackberry
Remembers old collection of love songs that Mom had saved since she was a teenager
Music was on something called a cassette
Mom cried as she tried to untangle the pile of crinkled tan tape covering her garage floor.
Dad suddenly remembers
Stack of used 8-tracks
Stuffed in sagging cabinet
His untidy study.
“I remember your Grandma
Had large black discs with small holes”, Mom says
Big cardboard covers
Lots of songs on them
She called them 33’s.
“Oh yeah”, Dad says.
“Remember Grandpa’s stacks small black discs with big holes in them?”
I played frisbee with them.
The labels said 45 rpm.
“I sure wish your Great Grandpa was here”, Mom says
He played a tenor saxophone in a jazz band at Princeton
He had blacks discs with small holes that went ‘round and ‘round real fast
Called em 78‘s
He played songs by Paul Whiteman and Bix Beiderbecke
The music was scratchy.
“I was a little boy at your Great, Great Grandpa’s house”, Dad says
Old, wooden music box like this one in the corner of their living room
Crank on it
Faded old black and white photograph of them sat on top of the music box
They were young
They were dressed up
They were dancing
Great Great Grandma was wearing a short dress with fringe on the bottom
She looked like she was hopping around
Her legs were bent like twigs at the knees”
With a sprinkling of grey hair, I raised my Nikon
With slumping shoulders, this aging photographer slowly slinked into the shadows of Buenos Aires.
She whisked by me dressed down in old Bohemian fabrics.
Click. Click. Click.
Her moving red lips said “Thank you”.
I could not resist. “You are so beautiful you should be a model in the Buenos Aires Fashion Week”.
“I am one of the Fashion Week models”, she whispered.
With curiosity I asked “Why are you dressed so casually, so Bohemian?” “I’m trying to be incognito in Buenos Aires. These Latin men are, let’s just say, a bit assertive”. At the fashion shows in Paris, New York and Milan, the men give us some distance”.
A new experience for me. Wrapping your body in fabrics is an art onto itself. Wrapping yourself to decrease attention? It didn’t work with me! My Nikon captured her.
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ARGENTINA Through Harold’s Lens:
USA.
Auburn, New York
4:12 am.
January 9, 1955.
The brass ringer bell on our rotary phone screams and screams and screams outside my bedroom door.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
I’m in deep sleep.
Ring. Ring Ring.
I am only 14.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
Old enough to know only bad comes with a call in the black of night.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
I’m into horror movies.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
I am terrified.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
Slapping bare feet rip down the wooden hallway.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
Total silence.
A mind-piercing scream rips through my bedroom door. I leap from my sheets. I tear open my door. I’m face to face with my Mother. Wracking in tears. Sucking for air. Eyes wide with terror.
“Maudie”, Mom gasps. The hospital. Her five-month old daughter. Dead. I wrap my arms around Mom’s heaving, sagging shoulders. Mom and I cry.
Please Lord. There is an order to birth. An order to death. Our children are not to die first.
A jet black old rotary in an antique store in Buenos Aires evokes a 50 year old painful memory of an ice cold January morning in upstate New York and the value of life.
Sloshes of beer lay soaked in mops
Old oak tables upturned
Broken chairs stacked in trash cans
Sharp broken glass swept into dust pans
Whift of rancid sweat hung in the corners
The stink of warm booze hung everywhere.
14 large screen tv’s
All black.
Boca Juniors victory in futbol
Only matched by its raucous fans.
As Argentina’s most internationally famous professional team, the team’s fame is matched by its rowdy fans. At La Bombonera stadium these crazy Boca Fans are nicknamed La Doce. The 12th player because of their loud and distracting presence.
The large fan base of these hooligans number 60,000+. There are only 49,000 seats in the famed La Bombonera stadium.
On game day, thousands of energetic La Doce pour into bars. The bars pour back. Chants echo off walls. Drums pound. Flags wave. Packed bars going bananas.
Like a roaring tornado, the passion and excitement rips through Buenos Aires.
From rooftops, windows, doorways, busses, bicycles and bars, town criers abound.
Sweaty and bloody, Boca Juniors, Argentina’s internationally famous professional futbol team, has won another rough game against one of it’s arch rivals, River Plate.
From only six feet away I hypnotically watched the tan pointed Italian shoe anxiously move up and down. The seated young man’s movements were putting me into a trance. A weird mental state. From his outdoor cafe chair, he scanned the woman’s store fronts of fashion around him.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Was he on drugs?
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Was he waiting for a drop?
Tap. Tap. Tap.
What was up?
Scan the store fronts again.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Look up.
Look down.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
A lanky red head, in a red mini at upper thigh hovering on top of 6” spikes, walked up to him carrying four shopping bags. He stood. They held hands. Walked away. Interesting to watch a man while his gal is shopping for women’s clothes.
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