#orpheus with lyre

Another of F. Holland Day’s dreamily beautiful Orpheus photographs, featuring (the also dreamily beautiful!) Nicola Giancola. At first I thought this a cropped detail of a photograph I had seen and shared before, but the angle changes between exposures.

A difficulty in curating this collection into its third year is remembering all that I have featured before - just this afternoon I almost posted a photograph I had shown a long time ago (this, if you wonder what was so pretty I was enamoured all over again). I did catch my error in time, and instead have found a different yet no less lovely photograph by F. Holland Day, to fulfil the intended amount of dreamy delicate images he so perfectly supplies.

A perfectly entrancing photograph by F. Holland Day, again the simple setting of a charmed woodland glade provides the timeless, otherworldly backdrop to a beautiful young man of rare grace, acting his part wonderfully well - a soul so transported by the sweetness of his music that nothing in the world can draw him from his dreamy reverie.

What a beautiful scene from F. Holland Day, none seem as exquisitely adept at capturing the heavenly, otherworldly atmosphere as he, with his hazy, ghostly scenes of lovely young men adrift in timeless woodland glades and secret places among the rocks. We can also, perhaps, see this same model cradling a lyre, here.