Gravity
by posthumous

Comment:
Helluva Image dude.

"An apple serves as well as any skull
to be the book in which to read a round,
and is as excellent, in that it is composed
of what, like skulls, comes rotting back to ground.

But it excels in this, that as the fruit
of love, it is a book too mad to read
before one merely reads to pass the time..."

— Wallace Stevens

From memory, so I may not have it exactly right)

R.

Message edited by author 2009-02-18 16:27:59.

Harbor View, Midwinter • (Urban Landscapes III)
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Weird: no 1's, no 2's, no 3's, and only seven 4's — and 6.4 is the best it can get? I think I am starting to redefine the term "good enough" LOL...

And what's with a top-10 image with NO post-challenge comments after more than 48 hrs?

Message edited by author 2009-02-18 14:51:45.

A Portrait of the Sky II (from: Anything but landscape - Charlie Baker)698076
by raish

Comment:
I can't believe Charliebaker beat your Charliebaker tribute for yet another Brown, the irony of it!

Cocka'tude
by BaldurT

Comment:
That's cool, broke a 6!

5.52 Reflected
by Melethia

Comment:
Well, *I* love it!

shone
by krnodil

Comment:
Fabulous! Grows on me. Love your explication of what it evokes in you; now that I have that inb mind, I cand efinitely see it that way, though I didn't at first. But there IS a sense of striving, of reaching and lifting.

Flying
by GreatJobBob

Comment:
I have no idea what challenge to reference here, and get over 700 hits when I enter "flying" in the image search engine; I'm not gonna work that hard to find your referent, so this gets a 4 from me for now while I figure out what to do with the images i can't locate the antecedents to.

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I have stopped voting shy of 20%. The scrubber will erase your 4.

Sands of Time
by Wenders11

Comment:
Unable to locate original, none of the images that show u searching title = "sands of time" are brown ribbons.

So it's a 4 from me for that reason; I have decided, quite arbitrarily, to give 4's to whatever images I can't compare to the original. But it's very nicely done, and a beautiful hourglass too :-)

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I have stopped voting shy of 20%. The scrubber will erase your 4.

Life Lines
by WeJay

Comment:
Searching the image/challenge titles for "life lines" gives me no hits so I have no idea what this is referencing. For that reason, I'm giving the image a 4 for now, and will decide how to deal with these unknown-referent images later. It's very nicely done, though :-)

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I have stopped voting shy of 20%... The scrubber will erase your 4.

charliebaker's satire
by riversong

Comment:
For Pete's sake, which one? He's got 27 Brown Ribbons and every last one of them is a satire. Still, I'll make an assumption, that this one is tackling the green square he entered in the "Red" challenge. And I'll tell you what I think:

This challenge is to "improve" a brown-ribbon shot, and I ask you in all sincerity, "How can you improve on perfection?" Charlie's shot is exactly, precisely what he intended it to be. THIS shot would be no more likely to escape the brown in the "Red" challenge because it's still not red, it's GREEN!

It's a mistake to think that including an object in some way makes it a "better" picture, because by including the object you denature the purity of Charlie's depiction; by giving us nothing but plain green, he forces us to absorb his image on precisely his own terms.

Of course, this is all just philosophy; it has nothing much to do with how well-crafted *your* image is. And you did a decent enough job, photographically, don't get me wrong. I'm just passionate about the validity of Charlie's works :-)