Here again was my submission to The Color Purple challenge, which I titled "Moments Before Purple's Conception":
A couple of people commented that it would have been better if the image had shown the moment after purple's conception instead. Of course I have that one too!
My initial concept was indeed to go with something like the latter. Only after I reviewed all the photos I took, did I feel that the former was the less obvious and more compelling image. The competition instructions were to show or suggest the color purple, after all, and I thought it would be more fun to suggest.
On the other hand, I sometimes wonder whether I make poor emotional choices as my right brain runs rampant in the countdown toward submission, and whether I might do better to stick to my initial left brain concepts. :)
So, did I make the right choice, or the wrong choice? Why? And how do you decide which of your options to submit?
Of course, I had many more shots along the lines of the following, but I preferred the ones like the above for their simplicity and drama.
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