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08/28/2008 06:59:25 PM · #76 |
By the way I just made a new favorite in this road challenge. It is so nice not to participate and just rate:-) My new fav from this challenge is about a road that is pretty unique is all I can say for now:-)
Message edited by author 2008-08-28 19:14:58. |
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08/28/2008 07:54:03 PM · #77 |
Originally posted by Prash:
Nobody (or very few) like to comment, yet everybody wants comments. How is that possible? I made sure that I comment on at least 3 and below scores that I put. |
Yup. I feel more obligated to comment on the 4's and 5's. The really poor entries will probably get lots of feedback from others and the obviously great ones will always get wowed over. So I try to put most of my commenting efforts on the midrange.
Votes Cast: 5,556
Comments Made: 5,025
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08/29/2008 05:23:57 AM · #78 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Originally posted by BrianR:
If it was required for this challenge to go out and photograph a road the challenge would have simply been called Roads as an extra meaning had been added in the description, as photographers in this art form we were asked to be creative in the challenge and include this meaning, and it was kept to basic editing.
But as I said this is my perspective and we are all entitled to an opinion. |
"ut as I said this is my perspective and we are all entitled to an opinion.
People sure are bent about this challenge. Read whatever you want into it, but don't try to force YOUR interpretation on everyone else. This challenge should be left to individual vision - nowhere does it say ANYTHING about a poet, nor does it specifically mention some lonely road.
The challenge is simply listed as follows.
Challenge Title (and) Description: The road less traveled.
I'm trying to keep an open mind to many interpretations as I vote on this challenge. Kind of tough to do (stay open-minded) if one reads all of the spewing that is going on here. Geeessshh! |
I must be living in a different world to a lot of other people, the Road Less traveled has a completely different meaning by the way I was brought up and to its meaning.
But as I said this is my perspective and we are all entitled to an opinion.
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08/29/2008 05:52:20 AM · #79 |
Brian - Why did you change the wording of my quote in your reply? Snipping is one thing - changing words is another.
Message edited by author 2008-08-29 05:53:27. |
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08/29/2008 06:34:06 AM · #80 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Brian - Why did you change the wording of my quote in your reply? Snipping is one thing - changing words is another. |
please tell what word I changed
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08/29/2008 07:58:30 AM · #81 |
Do you think many people were expecting to see pictures related to Robert Frost's poem? I knew about the poem but I didn't see the need to follow it. Just as I wouldn't expect many people to follow Alice Walker's theme in the challenge "The Color Purple"...just wondering.
...then again when I do a google images search of the road less traveled (//images.google.com/images?=en&q=the%20road%20less%20traveled) I guess I see what people might have expected ;)
Message edited by author 2008-08-29 08:03:49. |
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08/29/2008 08:23:09 AM · #82 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Originally posted by BrianR:
If it was required for this challenge to go out and photograph a road the challenge would have simply been called Roads as an extra meaning had been added in the description, as photographers in this art form we were asked to be creative in the challenge and include this meaning, and it was kept to basic editing.
But as I said this is my perspective and we are all entitled to an opinion. |
"...asked to be creative and include this meaning..." What the heck does that mean?
People sure are bent about this challenge. Read whatever you want into it, but don't try to force YOUR interpretation on everyone else. This challenge should be left to individual vision - nowhere does it say ANYTHING about a poet, nor does it specifically mention some lonely road.
The challenge is simply listed as follows.
Challenge Title (and) Description: The road less traveled.
I'm trying to keep an open mind to many interpretations as I vote on this challenge. Kind of tough to do (stay open-minded) if one reads all of the spewing that is going on here. Geeessshh! |
I must be living in a different world to a lot of other people, the Road Less traveled has a completely different meaning by the way I was brought up and to its meaning.
But as I said this is my perspective and we are all entitled to an opinion.
Unfortunately I will not be home at roll over, but will write my perspective of the wording of this challenge as soon as I am able in challenge results.
The Road Not Taken .. Robert Frost
Is not the same as the 'Road Less Traveled'
Message edited by author 2008-08-29 08:52:37.
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08/29/2008 01:56:55 PM · #83 |
Apparently, metaphors are liked about as much as abstracts, but I expected such.
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08/29/2008 04:38:27 PM · #84 |
Votes: 134
Views: 203
Avg Vote: 4.4403
Comments: 3
Wow !!! Now 3 Comments :-)
1-Theme a couple of steps removed but pretty shot.
2-cute! good editing job
3-that's a stretch for the challenge. imo
Message edited by author 2008-08-29 16:47:45.
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08/29/2008 07:51:45 PM · #85 |
Votes: 144
Views: 229
Avg Vote: 4.3889
Comments: 8
Lots of interesting comments and debate about what the challenge is about, in the end I think the literal will win out, rather than a metaphor (or a shoehorn as one has called my photo). Guess we'll see on the 2nd. Bleh. |
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08/30/2008 12:01:16 AM · #86 |
Votes: 148
Views: 242
Avg Vote: 4.9324
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Oh well. you lose some, you win some (well, I hope someday anyways ;) ) |
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08/30/2008 05:27:31 AM · #87 |
Originally posted by Dmosier21:
Votes: 144
Views: 229
Avg Vote: 4.3889
Comments: 8
Lots of interesting comments and debate about what the challenge is about, in the end I think the literal will win out, rather than a metaphor (or a shoehorn as one has called my photo). Guess we'll see on the 2nd. Bleh. |
I sympathise with all whose well-meant entries have flown by the auditing system of voters. Nevertheless, as I think I partly mumbled before, a metaphor comes in two parts, the vehicle and the tenor. (Actually this is just someone-or-other's thesis on it, but it works for me - can't remember who it was that coined the terms either).
In the metaphor of divergent roads, the physical roads (image thereof) is the vehicle for the tenor, which is divergent futures through choices made in life. It's not one of yer complex metaphors, which may be why everyone gets a craw full of that poem in school :)
If you make an image that is intended to illustrate the tenor of a metaphor, then you create a third part, outside of the simple metaphor mechanism. Like I said, I sympathise and I'm all for the use of images to illustrate ideas as well as things. If a lot of voters don't - er - get it, though, then you can sort of see where the problem might lie.
Take heart - you were right, anyway. |
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08/30/2008 08:37:57 AM · #88 |
My score is dropping but the comments keep going up. To be honest I thought I'd be lucky to get a 5.5 on this image, so I'm pleased.
Votes: 151
Views: 254
Avg Vote: 6.1987
Comments: 14
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