Title: On top of the world

Brave, confident, and passionate. The figure in the photograph lies on top of a giant hand, showing prominence in power and strength. Even though the person isn’t visibly muscular, the firm stances, such as the broadened shoulder and hands laying back on the giant hand, show eternal beauty by purely showing what the person has, not editing and cropping on social media to meet the beauty standards. Also, the body language, such as the intentional tilt of the neck to one side and legs around the fingers of the giant hand, shows the person’s confidence and appreciation of the appearance and identity as the person is very relaxed and symbolizes a theme: This is me. The camera angle is tilted, focusing on the person’s gestures and facial expressions. The person looks more dominant because portraiture has a tilt angle to symbolize strength and dominance. Shifting the focus to the face, the person looks like an ordinary teenager with acne and sloppy hair. But, the eyes are looking down as if it is gazing, showing passion. The relaxed eyes, nose, and low brows show confidence. This symbolizes that no matter the identity and appearance, everyone has eternal beauty if they can be more confident, inspiring, engaging, kind, and unique. Shifting the focus to the background, the background is bland with blue skies and trees, showing nature. This symbolizes that people should understand that beauty standards on social media aren’t all and that nature is where real beauty comes from. Lastly, the photographer purposely edited the photograph to be overwhelmed with primary colors, like yellowish orange, to express dominance and further emphasize the confidence and passion of the person, symbolizing everyone has specialties and values.