circle of zen
by magnetic9999

Comment by wewillexplore:
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The specific character means "city."

What if he picked the one next to it, that means "wood" or "tree."

They are Chinese characters.

Electric Midnight Express
by magnetic9999

Comment by albright1:
Wow.... that purple is intense. Incredible!

circle of zen
by magnetic9999

Comment by bod:
Wow. I see meaningless squiggly lines every day in all cultures. Hell Prince even changed his name to a squiggly symbol. One more ain't gonna hurt.

Great multi-image mag, 'grats on anther ribbon.

Jefferson Memorial
by magnetic9999

Comment by Remie:
It's a pretty good image, but I find the pillars not being parallel to the borders of the photo rather disturbing. And somehow there seems to be something wrong with the balance between the amount of visible building and the amount of visible sky. I think you should have shown more sky or no sky at all.

circle of zen
by magnetic9999

Comment by Kavey:
Woo Hoo Kollin,
Congrats on the ribbon and an excellent composite.

circle of zen
by magnetic9999

Comment by joshua:
good job mag...too bad people can't just lighten up

Message edited by author 2003-05-05 19:51:51.

Electric Midnight Express
by magnetic9999

Comment by Nickls:
The best I've seen so far in this challenge..... by far

circle of zen
by magnetic9999

Comment by magnetic9999:
Thanks for your comments.

To Tony Ku: I just took a pic of the characters on the planter and used those as a design motif. Which is no different from showing a picture of the planter itself. If you have a problem with that you should take it up with the manufacturers of that planter. Let me know when they respond to your letter and what the response is.

Re: "zen": sorry but zen has a lot of colloquial meanings that arent necessarily connected with a religious dogma, that include meditation, peace, inner calm, enlightenment, desirelessness, etc. To me, this picture is evocative of those meanings. I can't imagine that such a usage would give offense, but if it did, my sincere apologies.

Message edited by author 2003-05-05 16:43:43.

Jefferson Memorial
by magnetic9999

Comment by carolee:
VERY nice approach to this monument! By removing the most recognizable part, the dome on top, you've gotten us to pay attention to the other qualities that make it so beautiful. Also like the lighting in this one. Late afternoon?

circle of zen
by magnetic9999

Comment by Kimbly:
Bamboo!!! I just fell out of my chair ;-)
Congrats, dude.