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‘Feeling Light’ is a fine art photograph by Rossano B Maniscalchi. It is an image of three resplendant beauties reposing, with some abandon, in a luxurious electric blue pool of water that glistens with energy and warmth. The scene is flooded with a spectacular array of sparkling colours that permeate through the saphire sea. Vibrant magenta and ruby red costumes, a luscious lime flare of fabric with delicate white and gold waterlilies. However, the rapture of these three carefree women, as they close their eyes in dream-like fashion, is fraught with danger. They remain oblivious to both the viewer and the inquisitive octopus, with its slender tentacles poised to entangle the equally slender legs of the unsuspecting woman to the top left. A second octopus lies in wait for the woman top right, while two jellyfish await their chance of attack if the octopus deigns to investigate further. The central bather in red is flanked by predacious sharks and one can see a shoal of fish as they disperse in every direction at the sight of them. Indeed, one fish, at the head of the woman, is open mouthed as if trying to warn of the dangers that lurk so closely. Rossano Maniscalchi has created a scene of opulence and serenity, which is also charged with energy and agitation at the fate of these three recombant bathers. He successfully demonstrates the fragility of this utopia, how the possibility of it descending rapidly into dark chasms of chaos and destruction lies only a whisper away. The viewer is left to either celebrate this glorious moment without further thought or to ponder their fate, to consider the feasibility that they may simply glide through the water unharmed, as some glide through life, blissfully unaware of what is going on around them.

The English Bulldog is considered a national treasure. The English Bulldog is an endearing, comical yet dignified character. Arthur @arfy_boo is a model bulldog who is totally at ease having his portrait taken – we simply couldn’t decide which side was his best of these four images. Follow him on Instagram @arfy_boo to track his escapades! @dog_pics120 @dogsofinstagram @dogstrust

Blackout II is a unique and exceptionally well-styled store, run by London’s doyenne of vintage vogue Roz Torz. The store provides a rich display of haute couture, jewellery, hats, shoes and accouterments dating from the 1920s up to the 1980s. This mecca of vintage verve draws you in off the street to experience a celebration of the finest garments imaginable, from which exclusively distinctive ensembles can be created with expert styling advice from the erudite members of staff. The conundrum, when presented with such a fine multitude of chic, is to make the ultimate decision of which outfit to purchase and Blackout II has recognised this issue by providing the opportunity to hire the attire. Be sure to pay a visit to this iconic store in person or at https://www.blackout2.com, https://twitter.com/Blackout_II, Blackout 2 Vintage Fashion and @blackout2vintagefashion. Express gratitude is extended to Roz Torz to who gave permission for photographer Helen Duvall to take a set of photographs in the store, prints can be purchased at https://screamingabdabs.gallery with proceeds donated to the sterling work of @charitybeginsathome.uk a charity that has been working since March 2016, providing food, clothes and other necessities, to those who are sleeping rough on the streets of London. @charitybeginsathome.uk also provides food packs to less fortunate families.

Handsome Beast, Bullocks in South Devon photographed by Helen Duvall This cheeky South Devon bullock simply adored the camera, presenting himself as the frontrunner for a portrait. 

‘Soul on Wheels’ is a monochrome fine art photograph, by Rossano B Maniscalchi, that personifies the Herculean physique of masculine perfection. This is a portrait of a perfectly formed man who exudes control, balance, purety and deference to inhibition. He is an Adonis, as natural as the elements that surround him. The deep tones of his lustrous skin gracefully undulate like the sea over the contours of his consummate anatomy. His composure is as calm as the clear sky above. His shadow is cast behind him on the coarse texture of the sand and seashells, which form a textured contrast to this supremely serene scene. The innovation of the wheel succinctly manifests man’s intellectual supremacy over any other living entity. This portrait uses two refined wheels as a pictorial metaphor to illustrate this intrinsic acuity. The implication of this portrait is sublime in its simplicity.

‘Since I Lost You’ is a fine art photographic image by the acclaimed Italian photographer Rossano B Maniscalchi.  It is a powerful image which captures a ubiquitus moment with direct simplicity. The viewer is faced with a glass barrier upon which tiny beads of water stand pert to form a dappled screen. From the other side, the face of a beautiful woman looks out. The viewer will never know the nature of her loss, nor the ending to her story. This study is about the moment of realisation in which this woman exchanges her recoil of thought for a desire to escape and search. She is sealed into a watertight vacuum, devoid of the soul which she has lost. The pressure of her three fingers pressed against the glass is the only small clue to her despair. She is captive in this space, but resolute in her expression to find a way out. Her face is calm, yet the droplets of water may well symbolize the tears behind her composed demeanour. Her lustreous soft pink lips gently part to reveal pearls of a potentially devastating smile in happier times. Her soft grey wanderlust eyes remain focused in a steadfast skyward gaze at an object for which her right hand is poised to reach out, the identity of which remains a mystery to the viewer. One can only hope that she will unlock the route to her freedom and reunite with her lost soul.

‘Both Love and Fire Should Be Revived’ is a captivating fine art photographic study by Rossano B Maniscalchi. This is a portrait that celebrates the passion and elation brought by pure love. The arrival of early morning dawn brings a vivacioius goddess, from empyrean skies, whose angelic wings gently melt away as though they are borrowed from the delicate cloud formations behind her. She represents the electric heat, beauty and joy of fresh love in the air. Her raven hair flows sweepingly into the breeze, lifting and swirling into deep dark ringlets that exemplify her carefree existence. She boldly strides forth at the surface of a deep dark lake, as a new lover arrives at the beginning of a passionate affair that will gracefully flow into depths the size of an ocean. Her charged presence causes the water to rise and meet her slender feet in a fountain of great force. This explosive union feeds into fiery flares of suffused orange flame that dance in delight around her spirited form and enimatic expression. These incandescent flares eminate further to scorch and engulf all that has gone before in this place. This capivating and all encompassing vision represents the blinding power of new love, how one soul can walk into your life, capture your heart and simply sweep away all thought of previous lovers.