In the terms of Thoreau - DPChallenge Forums

02/01/2008 03:33:40 PM · #1

Excerpt from Walden â�� Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear, nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

Using the minimal rule set, show how you live your life to the fullest.

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

02/01/2008 05:25:54 PM · #2

Are there no lively, life stricken, live to live people out there?

Has television, the internet, and push button laziness set in?

No comments?

thegrandwazoo

Nikon D750

02/01/2008 05:34:10 PM · #3

click-click-click

what?

click-click-click

(OK I am in for the HDT challenge)

frisca

Nikon D70

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

02/01/2008 05:41:25 PM · #4

I love that passage from Thoreau. Is your suggestion "living life to the fullest"?

gloda

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

02/01/2008 05:45:10 PM · #5

Mmm would be interesting. I had Thoreau in my Early American Literature module last term.

02/01/2008 05:49:21 PM · #6

Originally posted by frisca:

Is your suggestion "living life to the fullest"?

In a word.....youbetcha.

Ken

Canon EOS-7D

02/01/2008 05:51:28 PM · #7

I think it'd make a great challenge, not sure on the minimal editing rules, although I understand the reasoning behind it.

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

02/01/2008 11:42:47 PM · #8

a personal bump on living life to it's fullest/

fotomann_forever

02/01/2008 11:44:47 PM · #9

Originally posted by Man_Called_Horse:

a personal bump on living life to it's fullest/

I just ate, so living life pretty full, too

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

02/02/2008 12:14:04 AM · #10

I like the suggestion as is. Even better is to have it run at the same time with something like this:

Theme: Babies!
Description: Take a photo of babies! In other words, very young, small person(s) or animal(s).

That way if people can't figure out your theme they can always enter/vote in the other one. :P

Message edited by author 2008-02-02 00:14:32.

bucket

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

02/02/2008 12:36:18 AM · #11

For what its worth, I use a quote from Thoreau on my profile page:
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."-Thoreau

Ken

Canon EOS-7D

02/02/2008 12:51:31 AM · #12

This reminds me of a literature teacher I had in high school. She was older and yet the coolest teacher I ever had. She had a hard foam brick in the class that had on the side "Thoreau me".

02/02/2008 09:17:33 AM · #13

And why "minimal" rule set you ask?

fotomann_forever

02/02/2008 11:00:12 AM · #14

Originally posted by Man_Called_Horse:

And why "minimal" rule set you ask?

*click, click, click* Why?

Pentax DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL [IF] WR DC

02/02/2008 12:56:54 PM · #15

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

Originally posted by Man_Called_Horse:
And why "minimal" rule set you ask?

*click, click, click* Why?

Because, HDT, (if alive today, owned a camera, had access to the internet, and saw his pond drained for new construction of a gated community) probly would of wanted nothing more than a pure image, out of camera, evoking his thoughts without the help of more technology, and just what nature provided as a source for imagery.

tnun

Ricoh GR III

02/02/2008 01:30:55 PM · #16

Thinking about it. (But the paradoxes of paring down to suck the marrow are going to dog the rest of my day).

gloda

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

02/02/2008 03:46:09 PM · #17

Man_called_horse, if Thoreau was alive today, he wouldn't have a camera, he would have borrowed his neighbour's.