Gazing at Hope

GF Watts painting of "Hope" is my favourite portrait, infact, possibly my favouritest of all paintings.

I took the adult meeces to see her, and the noise Wallis made when he lost balance and fell almost attracted the attention of the guide!!

If Hope had been an Old Master I'd have used her for my inspiration for tomorrow's self-portrait over there!

[Diana]

You are doing such wonderful things with your meeces, I love this!

[Casablanca]

Did they enjoy it? I find Hope an oxymoron as she looks blind, sad and almost hopeless with only one string left on that lyre. Clearly it touches your imagination.

[katy]

Oh my goodness! I hope Wallis suffered no ill effects from the fall. A terrific choice of composition for the photo

[Walks @ 7]

Good catch and glad you were there to introduce the Meeces to Hope and help with their excitement. Great PoV to capture this story. Fav. Wonderful title too!!!!

[Susan Wakely]

Was Wallis giddy with excitement seeing Hope?

[FBailey]

Love the effect here

[Joan Robillard]

Neat

[Catriona Baker]

Intriguing 😁

[Dawn]

Nicely done these guys are sure getting around

[JackieR]

@Dawn they are
@catangus thanks
@joansmor ta
@fbailey good old snapseed
@wakelys of course he was
@joysabin glad you like it
@grammyn I was worried he'd dented their bench
@casablanca she's allegorical ( there's a big word!) I don't know why I love this painting so much, but I'd like to step into the frame
@ludwigsdiana just hoping we don't get caught!!!

[Liz Gooster]

Wonderful how you’ve focused on the mice and had your favourite painting fading into the background. Love it 🖼️

[Peter]

Lovely perspective and use of a shallow depth of field Jackie:)

[narayani]

Great composition - a real sense of “art appreciation “

[Cazzi]

I've not seen this painting before so it has been interesting looking it up and I can fully imagine the clatter Wallis made when he fell in a quiet gallery.

[wendy frost]

I hope the meeces enjoyed seeing Hope. Wallis seemed to get a little too over excited with the visit.

[Shutterbug]

I love the warm tones.

[JackieR]

@shutterbug49 that's their lighting!
@wendyfrost as Del would say "stupid boy"
@serendypyty all the worse as I was hiding activity from my cousin!!!
@narayani hmmm I'm one of those who say about art "don't know much, but knows wot I likes"!!
@pcoulson all Snapseed Peter, to obscure Hope ( even though she's on Wiki, Tate's website, etc!)
@lizgooster all down to quick edits

[Kathy A]

These meeces must be enjoying this month, al the gallivanting they are doing

[Christine Sztukowski]

Great composition and tones Fav

[Kathy]

I like the shallow debt the field.This is a beautiful photo.

[haskar]

Great storytelling shot.

[JackieR]

@haskar @randystreat @365projectorgchristine @kjarn

Thank you, dof achieved with Snapseed edit!!