Bench Mark Continued

These photos below are images taken at two different benches when away in Turkey, I asked my family/friends to tell me how they were feeling at the specific moment and to perform it in a dance move, position, balance etc.

The whole idea of this is to experiment with capturing moments of emotion and character. I hope to over the next year improve my ability to capture images with a story; like the photographer Lois Greenfield for inspiration.

Each image has a different emotion attached and each person has a different character to them. The idea of the task that I have started, I hope will continue and develop through experiments, learning, and stepping out of my comfort zone.

All the images are captured in motion of the movement they were doing.
Here Jenna is spinning, she was filled with excitement and span for the sake of spinning. "I just felt like spinning *smiles*"

Linda was jiving; she said she felt very happy at this moment and with the subtle grin shows she's very relaxed.

Adam here is balancing with his legs in the air; apparently he used all this strength to lift himself up, for me this picture brings the question, how is he feeling? why is he actually doing this? although I asked him to perform something of his emotion, it doesn't seem to obvious as no facial expression is seen.

Sally seems tired, self explanatory with the expression of yawning, caught at the right moment, she expresses from walking around and the hot climate at the moment she had an over whelming sense of wanting to sleep.

Barry with a huge smile and grin on his face shows instantly how he was feeling, and a jump off the bench expressed this.

At another bench here they did the same...

Adam at the time felt very frustrated and the sudden movement was caught as he was stamping and pushing forward. The image again, doesn't show his facial expression but the body movement speaks something more.

Here Jenna is jumping with joy, she seems overwhelmed with happiness shown by her smile and instant leaping in the air.

Here Sally is in the process of doing something that looks like a leg exercise or movement. My instant thought, why was she doing this?

Here Linda and Barry are dancing together, romance and love speaks through these photos as they sweetly look into each others eyes.

This photo again of Linda and Barry instantly made me laugh, this photo has a story behind but can you guess what it is?

The set of photos above show emotions caught through movement, I feel pictures can speak a thousand words but can it reveal someones true feelings?