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Comment by posthumous:
I'm just going to give you a blue ribbon for this epic piece of Hieronymous Bosch Albrecht Durer madness. Let me dive into your grass of horns. Somehow the vignette and the ridiculous title only make it better.

buffalo wings
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Comment by mitalapo:
the bird elevates this to the next level

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Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:
What a capture. But I just can't get away from the sharpening halo on the bird - it keeps pulling my eye there.

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Comment by Melethia:
Oh, this so made me smile just now.

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Comment by posthumous:
marvelous use of vignette!

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Comment by ubique:

Originally posted by primabarbara: This was my only 10 - crop and vignette are stunning! It makes me wonder if that gentle giant was standing there waiting for something, if he/she was walking away or munching some grass...and I like the vastness of the surrounding Maybe I like your picture that much because it remembers me of one my own pics, here is a link if you are interested: gentle soul It is accompanied with a childrens poem, this is a rough translation (at least I tried): Highly sensitive The elephant is big and tall But gentle is his nature His heart is made of creamy quark His soul is tender like a violet Once this big, tall elephant It wasn’t on purpose , I swear! Stepped on the circus director’s hand They both wept bitter tears

That's a lovely comment, and a sweet/sad picture & poem that you linked as 'gentle soul'. I despair when I see elephants in any place other than the wild; I don't think there's anything that makes me feel more bereft than that. I think it's very good that you found a meaningful way to picture a captive elephant; an Indian elephant I think? The elephant is entombed in concrete. It feels everything, its captors feel nothing. You moved that line a little bit. Thank you.

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Comment by PennyStreet:
Fabulous.

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Comment by primabarbara:
This was my only 10 - crop and vignette are stunning!
It makes me wonder if that gentle giant was standing there waiting for something, if he/she was walking away or munching some grass...and I like the vastness of the surrounding

Maybe I like your picture that much because it remembers me of one my own pics, here is a link if you are interested:
gentle soul
It is accompanied with a childrens poem, this is a rough translation (at least I tried):


Highly sensitive

The elephant is big and tall
But gentle is his nature
His heart is made of creamy quark
His soul is tender like a violet

Once this big, tall elephant
It wasn’t on purpose , I swear!
Stepped on the circus director’s hand
They both wept bitter tears

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Comment by K3Master:
My only 9 of the challenge. I wish I could say I'm shocked to see it this far down, but I'm not.

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Comment by Bear_Music:
I could stare at this one all day, the rising dark and the piercing bright. Top mark from me.