Best of Year: TUTT + 1

The TUTT team have been together for a whole year!  Shew, time flies.  I can't believe I have been following these two ladies for 12 months.  Even though I haven't been with them on the whole journey, Linda, Mariette, Claire and I were together accross the finish line so to commemorate this most auspicious occasion we decided to choose our favorite picture from one other person's blog and as Linda put it, we ching-chong-cha'd via email to find out who that would be and I had the privilege of choosing my favorite photo from Claire's blog.  So last Monday, I set some time aside and disappeared down the 'Inspiration for the Soul' rabbit hole.  What a journey.

How the heck anybody is supposed to choose a favorite from Claire's photos I just don't know.  She is so talented and has such an interesting perspective that each photo is unique and special for a different reason.  In the end, I chose this one:

If I remember correctly these lights are in her home, and that is a wall in the background.  It looks more like warm lights on a misty night creating a swirl of shadows as the fine droplets roll in and are displaced from the heat of the lights.  Romantic enough for you Claire?

I think it is just beautiful, I can hear music when I look at it.  Of course, this also just goes to show that you never really have to go very far to find inspiration if you choose not to see what in plain sight - lights against a wall!  Which brings me back to Claire's interesting perspective . . . you have a curious way of seeing Claire, and I think it applies to the people you meet, perhaps that's why you love portraiture photography, and perhaps that's what makes you so good at it.