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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

You Ought To Be In Pictures...

So, you've prepared your spontaneous poses and preset the camera to capture your endless love in 5, 4, 3, 2...
Or perhaps, you two are attending a function and your shutter happy friend insists on snapping photographs of you unaware preparing for their life as a member of the paparazzi. Or may, it's just something that happened and once again, yourself and your mate are freeze framed into the annals of time for family, friends, and facebook to fawn over. Either way, at some point in your relationship, there will be pictures of you with your significant other (and if there isn't...well, that's another post for another day). You'd be surprised by what your pictures are saying...



It's pretty simple to deduce that couples who have multiple face to face photos probably spend the majority of their time gazing longingly, lovingly and lastingly into each other's countenances...but not so fast. Watch what those eyes are doing before you assume ever lasting adoration. This is the thing. Couples who enjoy each other, tend to look directly at each other. Not over shoulders, at some random point to the left, right, above or beneath of their paramores.

A couple that exudes contentment is pictures are none other than our POTUS and the First Lady. A genuine smile, whether facing the cameras or each other, casual touches seem to reassure each other of their great fortune at having found each other and open, receptive body postures that point to their ease and contentment whether staged or captured unaware. Likewise, photos of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee with their heads and smiles inclined towards each other bespeak a timeless love.

Ugh...
Body language speaks volumes.

This last one can be a tad tough to decipher. On the one hand, a picture of a couple all snuggled together can signal their complete rapture with their union. But there are one or two hallmarks that can point to a couple's possessiveness. An arm casually slung over a partners shoulder? Cute. An encircling body blocking, semi~suffocating gestue? Scary.




One thing's for sure...you'll never view Facebook photo albums the same...

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