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Paul


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Challenge: Posthumous Ribbon II (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Date: Mar 14, 2026
Aperture: 2.8
Date Uploaded: Mar 14, 2026

Deliberately political

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Place: 2 out of 32
Avg (all users): 6.8065
Avg (participants): 7.1053
Avg (non-participants): 6.3333
Views since voting: 76
Views during voting: 72
Votes: 31
Comments: 7
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04/03/2026 07:08:08 PM
Disturbingly good
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04/03/2026 11:27:46 AM
My favorite kind of patriotism. The kind that artfully--and tastefully--reminds people that interrogating power structures is part of what it means to exercise civic duty. This is a masterful image without or without the political evocation, though. Congrats!
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04/03/2026 08:31:45 AM
Congratulations, yes. our world is wavering. I hope we can get some sort of focus on goodness soon.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/02/2026 11:15:05 PM
Yes
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03/31/2026 11:54:08 AM
I like the title. A headwind makes it harder to progress. The motion of the photo is even more destructive, like an earthquake. It feels like the myth of patriotism is revealing itself to be nothing but a ghost. The flags are burning, have burned, are smoke now. The citizens are turning into the stripes, and the stars are scattered on the grass.

I'm hanging this in my fantasy gallery
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03/30/2026 02:31:07 PM
love the composition and use of longer exposure!
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03/28/2026 10:51:38 PM
Interesting. The title suggests there are external or internal forces that keep us from progressing. In this moment, that is almost a best scenario.
Love the photo, processing and, admittedly, the metaphorical obstacles.
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