romancing the plume
by tnun

Comment by quiche:
Gross, but funny.

mom
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Comment by skewsme:
my absolute favorite of the challenge
it's a whole movie....

Nigella Blues
by tnun

Comment by jgirl57:
pretty abstracts

lov should
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Comment by posthumous:
marvelous effect

I hang it in my fantasy art gallery.

mom
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Comment by ubique:
This is a welcome, cooling draught in a parched desert of disappointment.

By interrogating the headstone alone, and eschewing the contrived, you have elevated the challenge theme.

Here is the memorial, and within it the suggestion of the presence still of Mater Nostra. She looks darkly, desperately out at us; hardly discernible yet indubitably there in her compassion and her regrets.

The photograph transcends by a country mile the otherwise predictable stuff that has characterised this paint-by-the-numbers challenge.

Yours is an image that affirms the idea that less is indeed more.

It's a 10 for you (my next highest score was 6). Also the appalling burden of the Order of the Blue Thumb, for which I apologise as it's pretty much the kiss of death in the popular voting. Thank you.

mom
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Comment by quiche:
Straight head-on shots like this don't tend to be very interesting. They are documentary but not artistic. Focus also seems a little soft.

Nigella Blues
by tnun

Comment by SEG:
I predict most DPC'ers wont see the beauty in this processing. I love it. High marks from me.

lov should
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Comment by wbanning:
I just can't explain why I keep coming back to this image and saying, "Yeah. This one." I just do. Thanks for that.

Here's a bit of bling for you in return

Nigella Blues
by tnun

Comment by tanguera:
Intriguing

Nigella Blues
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Comment by GeorgesBogaert:
Wow, very powerful image. Abstract but can clearly recognize everything.
Front page. A 9 from me