The Ocean (Houses of the Holy-Track 8)
by SouthCoastOr3gon

Comment:
One of the Led Zeppelin songs I am not that familiar with. After I voted I looked up the lyrics and saw that this song is about the crowd, still - a beautiful image that is a good visual analogy anyway. Not sure why I thought I thought this was multiple exposures, instead of the obvious long exposure. Very nice capture of the ocean, that, again, has a 'mystical' feel, as so many of their songs have.

We come from the land of the ice and snow
by LalliSig

Comment:
You and the other one with this title popped this song into my head for days - not so bad, it is a classic. I knew this was yours - an excellent image in itself which did fit in with a 'modern day' take on the song, coupled with your title, it worked quite well (I gave it a 6) - I guess I wanted to see something 'warlike', a Viking maybe, to match the 'mythical' and 'hard' lyrics and music. Still this grew on me and I could imagine her walking down that 'icey road' to this song. This image does have the 'drama'. Just read your notes, here:

"Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!

On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore.

Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords.

On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore.

So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins,
For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing. "

Page/Plant 1970

According to Wikipedia, Immigrant Song was dedicated to Leifr Eiríksson.

edit:typo (sorry to make it even longer)

Message edited by author 2008-03-10 08:00:27.

Corner Offices
by bvy

Comment:
I gave this a 6. I thought the symmetry was fairly good - although to really nail a shot like this is very difficult in my opinion. The image wasn't 'strong' enough for me, for this type of image, whether that was because of the lighting, contrast, colors, not sure - just needed 'extra' to make it jump off the screen. The vertical framing seemed a bit off, perhaps a little more width, not sure. I liked the concept, but it was perhaps too close to the recent Architecture challenge for me and, as I said, had to have that little 'extra' to really grab my attention after having voted in that.

Illustrated Word: She's Got Legs
by cgino

Comment:
Ha. Funny. Like the processing too. The tilt works well and I like the perched one too.

And... "Sorry to fall in the same old rut of posting more cat pictures, but with 20 of the little buggers a huge chunk of my time goes to interacting with them -- AAARRRGGHHH!!!" It's a hard life.

Ignatius Sorvo Coromandel
by gsal

Comment:
Nice little 'memorial' image. Sad story - I wonder what became of this little life...

Face In The Crowd
by gsal

Comment:
And again. Beautiful tones.

Himba Girl
by gsal

Comment:
Another captivating image. Well photographed and processed.

Garbage Girl
by gsal

Comment:
Beautiful image. Beautiful girl. Her reality is not. Very captivating image and girl.

feeding
by bucket

Comment:
Tender capture.

Experiment Gone Wrong!
by C4Pictures

Comment:
I didn't vote in this Challenge, but coming to give a comment. Looks like a creative idea - both the setup and the concept, of an 'Experiment Gone Wrong!'. I like how you have captured some of the flames. The blues from the reflections off of the foil work well with the orange in the flames. Perhaps a variation in angle and composition would give this a little more 'drama' and therefore create a bigger impact in this image.