I wanted Elvis Costello's "The Poisoned Rose" but as that's also the first line I thought it just didn't suit as a title :) so I settled on this instead:
Elvis Costello - Song with Rose
Between last breaths and first regrets
The days dragged on like cigarettes
In the distance martyrs and martinets
Dally, dancing with the empty silhouettes of threats
So, where but heaven does love end
And where on earth does it begin
It's not the kind of love that is pinned
Like a medal
Or presses pennies in a tin
There is hope, and after that, there is only faith
Love like a wraith
Never made me afraid
Consoled as I was by that shade...
Here lie the roses in the ashes
Deep as the barnacles that cling
Just like a lace that runs through everyone and everything
In that other still forever
In that time before the past
I told myself we'd be together
Can you promise me that it will be eternally?
There is hope, and after that, there is only faith
Love like a wraith
Never made me afraid
Consoled as I was
Consoled as I was
Consoled as I was by that shade...
IMG_0454 - this will be interesting, again. I'm totally unsure what people will be looking for because I have no clear idea about what the challenge title vs the challenge description was asking. I went with High Key, Soft Focus (I think!) and minimal (if any) 'blur'. Oh well, bring it on :)
[Aug. 6th, 2012 03:50:16 AM]
Just a note - this effect was achieved in camera. Afternoon light in my garden, a piece of white paper torn so when it was wrapped around the stem the rose 'stuck out of it', a piece of cling film held between the lens and the flower with left hand, manual focus, half crouch down like a nong, camera in right hand, sway back and forth, click when it looked good. Oh, I forgot this part: feel like an absolute twit when son's friend visits and her Dad pulls into my driveway, takes one look, drives away, only to come back in 5 minutes and tentatively ask if he's in the right place! :0 Welcome to my world, buddy! :) My kids have to put up with this weird stuff all the time :)
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LOVE IT.....SO SOFT DELICATE AND DEFINITELY LOW KEY AT ITS BEST. THIS IS MY MOST LOVED IMAGE RE THIS 'HIGH KEY' CHALLENGE SO IT GETS MY SHERPET 'BLUE' STAR AWARD OF EXCELLENCE...
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR A AWESOME ENTRY THAT TOUCHED MY HEART.
Congratulations Pam...I told you it would do well. I do know a little bit about camera stuff and those image things that come out of a camera!!! :)))))
#2, tied with another
So many images missed in this challenge, that this was an easy second. The subtlety of the rose in the middle can be lost if you don't look for an extended period of time. If you could have pulled slightly more contrast in that region, this image would have been much better; not much more contrast, just a little.
Between last breaths and first regrets...
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