charliebaker's satireby
riversongComment by Bear_Music: 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 :-)
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