Angie dancing with me - a photo on Flickriver

Taken by fellow Flickrite cobalt123 as I was having a dance lesson with our beloved instructor, Miss Angie. I am outside the frame to the right, and Angie was teaching me the Argentine tango. While cobalt and I, along with my wife, all agreed that I did not look particularly good in this image -- my head angle did not compliment the instructor's very effectively -- we also agreed that this was the best picture of Angie herself that we were able to capture during the session. This, by the way, also ended up being the best dance lesson Angie has ever given me, although every one of them has been excellent.

Also, I am adding a little mood music for this one, in the form of a lovely melody I have used elsewhere for a similar purpose. This piece is from the soundtrack of "Pearl Harbor." (I have added it here strictly for the music; just minimize the window and ignore the accompanying video if you click on the link.) The picture was taken while Angie was teaching me the Argentine tango, although that is not something that is readily apparent when one looks at the image; but I constantly entertain fantasies about doing a waltz with her to this very piece of music, which I have listened to dozens and dozens of times while choreographing it in my mind.

Cobalt used my Nikon D50 to capture all of the images in this series, and we are treating the session as a joint effort, for reasons more fully explained here. I don't believe cobalt had ever used a DSLR before, but I thought she did an excellent job with it during this uniquely wonderful evening at the studio. And I simply cannot express, to her or anyone else, how delighted I am with this image in particular.

(Update: I had a feeling this image would make Explore, and it did. It is one of three images in my photostream that made the grade, but which I did not actually take myself. To look at the other two, click here and here. For two of the three, I can claim at least partial credit, because both were taken using my camera, under my direction, and with camera settings predetermined by me; and this one was edited by me as well. But for the last of the three images -- the one of me at age 6, sitting astride my bicycle and wearing an Army uniform -- I cannot, alas, claim any credit whatsoever. My father took that one, and I simply selected, scanned, and uploaded it some 45 years later.)

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Taken on: October 8, 2007

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Camera: Nikon D50, f/1.8, 1/80 sec, 50mm (=75mm) (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D50
Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	50mm (35mm equivalent: 75mm)
Exposure Bias:	+2 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Windows
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