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04/11/2005 11:12:23 AM · #1 |
Talk about a gruesome realization in a photograph. There's a part of me that's really curious to see the shot, though...
Reuters story:
Woman Photographs Swan, Finds Hand Stuck in Ice
Thu Apr 7, 9:12 AM ET
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish woman who photographed a swan in the river outside the royal palace in Stockholm made a grim discovery when the film was developed: a hand sticking out of the ice.
Newspaper Aftonbladet said on its Web Site that Marita Larsson was walking around Stockholm's Old Town in early March and took a photo of a swan on the river as a spring thaw melted the ice.
"It was only when I came home and developed the film that I saw there was something particular about the picture. When I had it blown up I saw there was a hand sticking out of the ice," she told the newspaper.
A spokesman for Stockholm police said the hand might be that of a man who committed suicide in late January and whose body has not yet been found.
Police last week also fished various body parts of a woman, including the head and hands, out of the river, and are still trying to identify her.
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04/11/2005 11:16:41 AM · #2 |
I think the movie Blow-Up was based on a similar theme.
Message edited by author 2005-04-11 11:17:17. |
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04/11/2005 11:36:44 AM · #3 |
| An entire body was found frozen in the Bow River in Calgary about a month ago. To keep it intact the police used hair dryers to retrieve it - seriously. If it didn't involve a young guy being murdered it would've been comical. |
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04/11/2005 11:39:37 AM · #4 |
That'll teach her to not pay attention to distracting background elements. 
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04/11/2005 11:43:10 AM · #5 |
hopefully it was an advanced rules challenge so she can clone stamp out the hand.
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04/11/2005 11:47:07 AM · #6 |
Wouldn't you consider a hand sticking out a major element? That sure adds to the photo, and would almost be considered a secondary subject to some.
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04/11/2005 11:48:57 AM · #7 |
definately a major element.
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04/11/2005 11:52:22 AM · #8 |
| Did they find the sword that the hand was holding? |
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04/11/2005 11:52:37 AM · #9 |
I'd have to agree, cloning out the hand would definately be grounds for a dq, I could just see the comments now:
"Beautiful picture, though the hand sticking out of the ice is a bit distracting" |
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04/11/2005 12:01:10 PM · #10 |
| I think the composition would be better if the frozen hand were on the other side of the photo, and it could use a little more saturation. |
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04/11/2005 12:45:45 PM · #11 |
Is it possible that DPC leads to perversion?
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04/11/2005 12:52:48 PM · #12 |
Didn't see the picture, but sound like a cheap ploy to advertise a second hand store.
me -------- swans ducks for cover ------>
Message edited by author 2005-04-11 15:31:27. |
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04/11/2005 12:59:44 PM · #13 |
This thread is too much :)
Did anyone call the swan in for questioning? |
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04/11/2005 01:16:11 PM · #14 |
Soundslike a set up with a swan decoy and a skin diver and her assistant did not get out of the way completely and she is covering her inattention by claiming a mystery hand. It's an old ploy.
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04/11/2005 02:38:40 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I think the movie Blow-Up was based on a similar theme. |
Right you are, excellent movie. Another themed around photography is The Conversation starring Gene Hackman. Both of them are the kind of film where you see more each time you watch them again, by two of the best directors ever, Antonioni and Ford-Coppola respectively
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04/11/2005 02:46:31 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Jacko:
That'll teach her to not pay attention to distracting background elements. |
:ROFL
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04/11/2005 02:49:23 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Did they find the sword that the hand was holding? |
No, the sword was a Star Trek sword and the person had borrowed it from Laurie's husband....he immidiately took it back before anyone found the body.
June
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04/11/2005 02:58:08 PM · #18 |
| What's so unusual about a photo of a swan and a wave? |
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04/11/2005 03:25:25 PM · #19 |
| this thread is getting way out of hand. But i have to hand it to you guys, you are quite sick. :) |
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04/11/2005 03:47:22 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Pedro:
this thread is getting way out of hand. But i have to hand it to you guys, you are quite sick. :) |
Eh - OK.
:) |
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04/11/2005 03:52:54 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by gloda:
Is it possible that DPC leads to perversion? |
Digital Perversion Club :) |
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04/11/2005 03:59:56 PM · #22 |
well.. if I had taken the pictures and discovered the hand, I´d go back to take more pictures.. even take some props with me to make the picture more interesting.. like the movie "weekend at Bernie´s" ..
I know it sounds pervertive.. but the hand is already dead.. and most likely the person attached or detached.. so what´s the harm to shoot some more before calling the police..
might even get some nice shots.. let the hand hold something precious.. like a lit cigarette or something ;) |
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04/11/2005 04:05:29 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by DanSig:
well.. if I had taken the pictures and discovered the hand, I´d go back to take more pictures.. even take some props with me to make the picture more interesting.. like the movie "weekend at Bernie´s" ..
I know it sounds pervertive.. but the hand is already dead.. and most likely the person attached or detached.. so what´s the harm to shoot some more before calling the police..
might even get some nice shots.. let the hand hold something precious.. like a lit cigarette or something ;) |
ha. How about a picture of the hand holding the lighter so the duck can light its cigarette. |
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04/11/2005 04:10:37 PM · #24 |
How about hand hand hand hand? Then hand swan pun swan hand!
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04/11/2005 04:13:37 PM · #25 |
| I don't think I could handle such situation,poor woman just wanted a few innocent swan shots :) |
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