OK, I'm seeing comments about titles and pictures again in relation to the current challenge.
I've already said I don't agree that a title should "save" a photo. I know different people will see this in different ways and so be it. To some, a given title isn't saving a shot while to others it is. In my eye, if you have to use the topic of the challenge (or a variation thereof) in your image's title in order to make the photo fit the challenge, you're saving. However, if the title creates a context for the photo to work in, I don't see that as saving at all.
I know my photo this week, without the context of the title, doesn't necessarily depict fear. Some aren't going to see what I wanted because they're trying to ignore the title.
Maybe this is a good way to look at it. Imagine a nude woman, half-heartedly attempting to cover herself, standing in a giant clamshell with some other beings looking on. The challenge topic is mythology. I know my mythology, but I wouldn't get it from the picture. Then I learn that Boticelli named it "The Birth of Venus" and I think, "Ohhhhh.... right."
American Gothic? The Scream? Starry Night? Ophelia? Disintegration of Memory? Don Quixote? Nighthawks? For me, each of these pieces of art lack something important without the inclusion of the title.
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