It's only after she's put on this face that all these pieces come together in startling close-up.
But José Luis Rodriguez is now facing allegations that his startling close-up image of an apparently wild Iberian wolf vaulting a farmer's fence is in fact faked.
The women's efforts have already had a fair amount of publicity, so the attraction here is the cinematography, and it makes good use of Imax and 3-D technology, with lovely aerial views and startling close-ups.
For instance, just where you're expecting one of the well-known long shots of the second plane flying into the south tower, you get a startling close-up image taken by two New York University students from their dorm window.
A startling close-up of a black horseman being strangled by a huge boa constrictor, it was an allegory for the suffering of African slaves, and referred to the abolition movement toward which Ward -- a church-going moralist -- was sympathetic.
I won't spoil A Serious Man for anyone who hasn't seen it yet – except to say it has the most compelling opening scene you could wish for, and one of the most startling closing images.
Still, its voice was startling — raw, close.
WITH "DEATH AND THE CIVIL WAR," an installment of PBS's "American Experience" on Tuesday night (check local listings), what hits you early on is a breathtaking figure that is even more startling so close to the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
There's a startling early close-up of Joe ringing his teenage son in Britain to tell him about his wife's death.
An exhibition of vintage photographs from 1954 to 1978 at the Roth Horowitz Gallery in Manhattan in March, his first show in New York in nearly 20 years, included images of desert rocks cast in dark shadow and a large fern curling across the torso of a pregnant woman, and most startling, a close-up of a woman's vulva just after childbirth.
While the sharp increase was understandably startling, a closer look at the figure indicates that only a few factors contributed heavily to the rise.
