Pacta sunt servanda by susale

Pacta sunt servanda

I´ve been challenged by my dear friend to photograph something related to song called Don´t say a word by Sonata Arctica.

I choce part of the lyrics; "pacta sunt servanda". Pacta sunt servanda is latin, it means that promises sould be kept, and it refers to legal agreements - marriage, too, is a legal agreement.

Also if I had to sum the meaning of that song, I could fit it in this one single frase; pacta sunt servanda; you should keep your part of the deal.

Marriage is not mentioned nowhere in the lyrics, it´s just my own interpretation of the song. The way I see it, is that it´s about broken marriage and about this man, who has a really strict moral beliefs and can´t really find peace until he keeps his part of the deal, which of course is the whole till death do us part thing. He sees no another way to keep his promise than, that one of them has to die, and since she is the one who broke the promise in the first place, she is the one.

It´s not the interpretion that the song writer himself has given to this song, but for me this powerful lyrics to work, there has to be a real agreement, a real promise behind it all.

Not completely happy with this shot, I really wanted to show more of this beautiful Certificate of Marriage, that I found in the internet but nothing but the close ups worked. I may have to visit this theme later.

In this version the frase pacta sunt servanda comes at 3:33 -how cool is that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37bLL-pIExM




Nice shot! Love the POV. That is quite an interesting interpretation. I am going to check out the artist and song. Very cool project! :)
April 8th, 2013  
Beautiful take. It works well in b/w.
April 8th, 2013  
@nanderson Thank you so much Nancy. I very happy you liked this, and that you´ll check out the song, the band should pay me for the promotion;)
April 8th, 2013  
@mercuria Thank you so much Ariel.
April 8th, 2013  
That is one fantastic shot, the b&w and the sharpness contribute so well to the theme
April 8th, 2013  
@exidia Thank you Fiona.
April 8th, 2013  
Beautiful composition and works so well in b&w. Off to listen to the band! :)
April 8th, 2013  
@danitech Thank you Danielle, I´m so glad you´re gonna check it out.
April 8th, 2013  
"Last drop falls" kind of precedes this song... I like the certificate idea, but you could take it further in the spirit of the song ? Tear it, stab a knife through it.... go crazy, it works :)
April 8th, 2013  
Nice composition!
April 8th, 2013  
@janim Oh I like that, why didn´t I think of that! Thank you for the idea, I´ll try it at some point, I promise. I see Last drop falls (Which I love bytheway) as its own story, but I rather see the end of this chapter preceeding this song, some think it´s the other way around.
April 8th, 2013  
@happysnap Thank you so much Linda!
April 8th, 2013  
amazing focus on this, really great pov
April 8th, 2013  
Ria
The tones are great for both.
April 9th, 2013  
@demmie Thank you so much dem

@eu4ria1 Thank yo very much Ria
April 9th, 2013  
Beautiful hun! Now how about Paid in full?
April 9th, 2013  
@hane Don´t push it :D! We´ll see what we can do about that....at some point ;)
April 9th, 2013  
Nice work.
April 9th, 2013  
@jameshislop Thank you James!
April 9th, 2013  
I like this. The actual ring and drawn rings work so well together and the shot really suits b&w.
April 9th, 2013  
Beautifully photographed.
April 9th, 2013  
i really like this shot! great focus and this really reflects what you said! and perfect b&w toning for this!
April 9th, 2013  
@kwind Thank you so much KWind

@michaelelliott Thank you very much Michael

@wind_of_the_sothern_sea Thank you so much Arefin,
April 9th, 2013  
Lovely ...
April 16th, 2013  
@pdulis Thank you
April 16th, 2013  
Perfect picture, Awesome light&shine! Ehdottomasti A fav!
May 9th, 2013  
Thank you Dania, glad you like it. Kiitos favesta:)
May 9th, 2013  
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