Victorian Slideshow
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Comment by escapetooz:
This is quite lovely! I didn't look through this challenge just saw this image in the "posthumous ribbons" thread and thought it was wonderful. Come to look and it is yours!

The appeal is strange and I can't put my finger on it. Just great!

Victorian Slideshow
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Comment by yanko:
This makes me sad. You took these poor slides you found in your trunk, against their will no doubt, and arranged them in this Victorian horror show? How dare you! Sorry I'm just upset that you didn't shoot what was inside your trunk, slides and all. :P

Clones For Sale
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Comment by RulerZigzag:
Good ingenuity here, If you have time I would like to know how you achieved this effect in further detail. You ever wonder if those news anchors are clones? Like Katie Chung and Earnie Anastos, they just never age!

Sight Seeing
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Comment by RulerZigzag:
I love going to manhattan for reasons like her, hey bring your zoom lens next time!

Victorian Slideshow
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Comment by Cutter:
Probably just slid into your best three photos in my opinion.

Victorian Slideshow
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Comment by whiteroom:
pineapple is in a good mood today ;)

Victorian Slideshow
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Comment by pineapple:
The design is rather orthogonal and lacks kinetic imbalance. The filigree of the grass rather gets lost in the fuzz of the background felt or paper. Heavy duty watercolour paper as a background would have revealed more of the interest in the foreground objects.

Between Life and Stone
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Comment by krnodil:
My lord, Marcel Duchamp once lived in Tewksbury NJ? The things you learn on this site. :) Very nice range of tones here, and I like how the vines branch up and slowly spread through the frame.

Victorian Slideshow
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Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
A reaction (since you asked in the reaction club): Something about this made me feel sad, almost profoundly so. Some of it was the subject matter, something that obviously once held memories for someone, something important enough to shoot on slide, yet now gone, forever, unrecoverable, lost. The way the damage appears, especially in the film and the left slide, increased the strength of that reaction in me. The use of the plants and the drawing brought me back a bit, making me feel the slides were not so lost; why give preference to the originally captured image? Just because it had the luck of being first in time? Maybe this is how these slides should be used, not holding some out of focus image of a model on a car hood or darkness because the photographer had his finger over the lens, but interacting with life and beauty and making art. There was still something, though, that pushed me back toward sadness, and until I read the comments, I didn't realize that it was the space in the lower left corner. Compositionally this works for me, great lines and flow. But given the subject matter and its arrangement, the lower left space adds to the feeling of sadness for me. There's just something . . .

P.S. If you can't tell, I like it a lot. (edited for clarity)

Message edited by author 2007-07-26 03:00:34.

Adagio in B Minor
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Comment by sevilduvarci:
i love the dark tones in this. very nice.