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01/24/2020 05:17:00 PM · #376 |
| thank you! always good to be mentioned here. |
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01/24/2020 06:01:49 PM · #377 |
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01/25/2020 01:25:15 PM · #378 |
Re: Are you ever amazed at where your "Top picks" ended up in the final challenge results?
I'm always amazed at voters' top picks. There's no figuring them out.. so why try? My last ribbon is a perfect example of "you've got to be kidding me!" LOL
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01/26/2020 11:15:22 AM · #379 |
These are my 10s that are not Top 10s. Let's talk a little about why they're art even if they didn't score high in an art challenge.
So much of art is composition. After all, composition could almost be defined as "everything purely visual about an image that shows us it is yours and not just the chaos of perception all around us." The composition of this photo dominates all else. It could almost be a flag, or a font, it's so visual. But it's not cold like a business logo. It screams with flight and motion.
In this image, composition is serving something else. Some might call it "story" which feels right but we have no idea what is happening. We just know something is happening, even if it's just in the minds of two girls. The vastness behind and around them has no effect on them. They are like cowboys in a Western, without the angst.
Art can be more personal than an ordinary image. Disturbingly personal, like someone waving at you in the corner of your eye, someone you weren't expecting to meet, before you even recognize them. Art can capture that kind of vulnerable, anxious, thrilling moment.
Art can be character study. The composition might be simple, obvious, and static, because it knows that it's only job is to show us three girls ready to take over the world.
But back to that chaos of perception I was talking about. Sometimes art reminds us of its own importance by taking us to the edge of the chaos it's saving us from and showing that choas more vividly than unmediated chaos, which we have learned to ignore. Art is not clarity. Art is not focus. Art can thrill and confuse us with enigma. But Art is and always will be the opposite of ignorance.
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01/26/2020 12:21:27 PM · #380 |
| Don - Thank you for an awesome contribution to this thread! Very much appreciated. |
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01/26/2020 12:22:44 PM · #381 |
Wow - my entry mentioned by  PennyStreet and  posthumous - that feels really great. Thanks a lot! |
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06/05/2020 12:02:55 PM · #382 |
Spring:
 56 of 76  skewsme
 28 of 76 glad2badad |
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06/05/2020 12:12:27 PM · #383 |
Surprised to see this thread pop up and even MORE surprised to get a mention.
Thanks Mariuca! Geez, now I'm embarrassed that I haven't revisited this thread myself. I'll be back soon. :-D |
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06/05/2020 12:17:53 PM · #384 |
My 9's and one of my 8's made the Top Ten already, but these two 8's did not ...
 11th by Melethia,  12th by grahamgator
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06/06/2020 08:51:56 PM · #385 |
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06/06/2020 10:35:58 PM · #386 |
| Thank you Barry, a nice surprise. |
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07/21/2020 11:55:43 AM · #387 |
Pardon me for throwing in ninth place as well, as it's of a piece. Fifteenth and sixteenth are legit.
And mea culpa, I want to bump these 8's to 10's. I know it's not in the cards, but what a pleasure it would be to rectify one's misteps. Going in the opposite direction might be questionable. Is there a challenge here? "Bumping an Image upon Further Reflection" Might be narrow, but if one provides one's thinking it could be fascinating. Without further ado:
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07/21/2020 01:27:50 PM · #388 |
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07/24/2020 09:06:38 PM · #389 |
What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?
First challenge I've commented on all in a while. Not that it's that hard to do nowadays with the smallish number of entries. :-)
This challenge was a strange one for me and I failed to see the approach that many took with their vision / entry. Oh well ... is what it is.
These are the ones that received my top scores that failed to make the Top Ten.
9's
 17th by GeorgesBogaert
8's
 23rd by Tiberius,  28th by NiallOTuama,  by jmritz
Honorable Mentions (7's) went to entries by Neat, jcar, and ladpupmoe |
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10/02/2020 12:08:39 PM · #390 |
My highest votes did not do well:
 posthumous 30 of 44
 roz 16 of 44
 Tiberius 29 of 44
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10/02/2020 02:53:40 PM · #391 |
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10/03/2020 08:30:14 PM · #392 |
miracle I saw this post ..
thankyou so much Mariuca .. I'm not usually crazy attached to the outcome with my photos in the challenges like I used to be .. but with this flip and bend I went in with very high hopes ..
so I was quite disappointed with the reception .. especially the six 4's ..
anyway thankyou again for liking my predator and posting here ..
you have made my day .. xx .. |
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12/09/2020 01:15:44 PM · #393 |
 jomari - 15th place |
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12/09/2020 02:46:46 PM · #394 |
They deserve a second viewing
Free study:
they did not make the first 20
 grahamgator
 jomari
 DistantColours
TREES:
 glad2badad
 salmiakki
 LevT
 grahamgator
 surfinbird jomari
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12/27/2020 01:12:01 PM · #395 |
| Thanks Mariuca! I'd missed this post. Appreciate it. |
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12/27/2020 01:21:00 PM · #396 |
From Above VII
 - 14th by vawendy
In the Spirit of Kiwinick
 - 17th by  markwiley |
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01/01/2021 12:14:55 AM · #397 |
Complementary Colors VII
 23rd by  Bear_Music
The End of the World
 16th by skewsme
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02/16/2021 04:36:56 PM · #398 |
vanishing point images that did not get in the top 10:
  Karelfred
 Lydia
 JulietNN
 Barroness |
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02/18/2021 12:38:50 AM · #399 |
These pictures have produced in my core a new feeling. As always, my favorite subject, which has added a new dimension here, is the color blue.
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02/19/2021 09:10:48 PM · #400 |
Top votes from me that didn't make the Top Ten
Where's Bernie?
 13th by Bear_Music,  22nd by bob350
Inanimate Macro II
 17th by willem,  29th by GinaRothfels,  23rd by Venser
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