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... So Are The Days Of Our Lives
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Challenge: Simile (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 250D 58mm Close Up Lens
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Aug 7, 2012
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 2 seconds
Date Uploaded: Aug 7, 2012

Title from the tagline of a venerable soap opera I never watched: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives."

-Tripod, timer, manual mode
-FL 199.2mm (35mm EQ) plus 250D Close-up lens
-Cloned out a bit of the worst dust and scratches
-Resize
-Duplicate layer
-Gaussian Blur to duplicate layer at 16 pixel radius/98% opacity
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 83KB

File: Timer_IMG_1728-DPC

Statistics
Place: 93 out of 96
Avg (all users): 4.1239
Avg (commenters): 5.8333
Avg (participants): 4.2245
Avg (non-participants): 4.0469
Views since voting: 501
Views during voting: 185
Votes: 113
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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08/15/2012 02:51:44 AM
and bill and ted's excellent adventure...
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08/15/2012 01:11:36 AM
this is a metaphor not a simile :P
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/14/2012 10:25:02 PM
Memories. I can hear the music now..
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08/14/2012 03:51:46 PM
Like sand through an hourglass . . . Lovely blur and colors here. Voted earlier.
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08/11/2012 01:35:18 AM
Great description of time...love the soft focus and the blur 10.
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08/09/2012 08:55:15 PM
out of focus, not a simile. Bottom 10
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08/08/2012 10:18:38 AM
in a drunken haze, and running out of time?
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08/08/2012 02:53:58 AM
I like the soft-focus, it's interesting. Wish I could see the whole hourglass though.
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