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Sailing to Byzantium
Sailing to Byzantium
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Challenge: Sailing to Byzantium (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Sigma DP3 Merrill
Date: Sep 2, 2014
Date Uploaded: Sep 2, 2014

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Statistics
Place: 27 out of 59
Avg (all users): 5.6806
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 6.0909
Avg (non-participants): 5.3333
Views since voting: 389
Views during voting: 163
Votes: 72
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)


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09/15/2014 12:26:23 PM
An image to sit with. Well done.
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09/14/2014 06:27:37 PM
This was my third 10; 25 and 26 were the others. How about that :-) Lovely, kinda aching shot.
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09/12/2014 02:06:59 AM
Worlds within a picture. Fave.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/11/2014 11:27:01 PM
I find a ship's wheel in the sand
And by her side a leaf points north.

This will take me here, boys. This will take me here.

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09/11/2014 09:52:36 PM
vision is everything.
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09/10/2014 05:12:29 PM
Un unusual interpretation of the poem. I'm drawn to the rusty colours in particular. Although the leaf provides a good contrast to the metal I think I'd have preferred it at an angle rather set so perfectly; probably represents my own sense of chaos!
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09/10/2014 04:18:51 AM
This is the most elegant photographic expression of the poem. It beautifully & effortlessly embraces Sailing to Byzantium’s themes of art-nature, mortality-immortality, and impermanence-transformation.

Yours is also the most economical and the most satisfyingly figurative of all the entries, especially as you have addressed the entire poem with your photograph rather than just an easily illustrated phrase wrenched callously out of its context.

Elegantly expressive, economical and figurative? Your photograph is itself a poem! That’s quite an achievement, but it makes you stand out a little awkwardly among so much leadenly literal stuff that appears to have been intended to demonstrate indifference to Yeats’s poem. Or to any poem.

Your beautiful photograph is my top pick. 10. And thank you.



Message edited by author 2014-09-12 06:08:06.
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09/09/2014 11:56:04 AM
I am not sure I understand the meaning of the poem or your image, but I do like the image.
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09/05/2014 03:08:14 PM
Interesting find. I like the textures and patterns a lot. Is that snail on top of a barrell, or is the barrel top just on the ground?
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