This is one of the photos I really struggled with whether or not to use during February Photo Fest. The full photo, which shows my face and captures the candlelight behind me as well as the soft blue-white impression of my bath curtain, was striking in its painted-effect colorful variations of light, and I hated to crop it.

Likewise, I hated to not use it at all.

So it became a back-track. A bit of a B-side to the compositions from this album I have so far chosen to release (see here and here).

But somehow I think – regardless of the cropped verse and shortened refrain – that there’s a certain something about this piece that makes it stand alone. It has – if I may say so myself – a touch of joie de vivre.

Or, perhaps: Joie de Feve. 🙂

What do you think?