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The Widening Gyre
The Widening Gyre
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Abstract II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Home
Date: Feb 4, 2006
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/60 sec.
Galleries: Abstract
Date Uploaded: Feb 4, 2006

 The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.


Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

~ William Butler Yeats

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/12/2006 05:58:04 PM
great colors
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 02/10/2006 07:08:29 AM
true to challenge, well done
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 02/09/2006 12:32:07 AM
Ah, a Yeats fan! This is a very interesting image. I think, though, that it would be even more effective if the "eye" of the gyre were a bit closer to being tack sharp.
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 02/09/2006 12:26:42 AM
Great rings of colour that lead your eye to the center of whatever that is :)
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 02/06/2006 01:03:52 AM
cool!!
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