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charliebaker's satire
charliebaker's satire
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Challenge: Brown Ribbon Deja Vu II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: house
Date: Feb 8, 2009
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2009



I hope I haven't added to the irony! Thank you charliebaker for inspiring me to take this obscure image of a feather!

Darlene


after voting.....

Elemental Transmutation

Thank you to the wonderfully creative, charliebaker for the inspiration, and especially for your generous and kind comment. I was never intending to 'better' your image, I just wanted to take a photo of the white peacock feather I got last summer and thought this was the challenge to use.


Bear_Music...I'm delighted beyond words to receive a comment from you after all these years. I'm honored and tickled at your comment!! I hope my image wasn't the straw that broke your voting back in this challenge!!

;)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/14/2009 03:45:54 PM
lovely and elegant
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02/13/2009 01:46:04 AM
Another abstract I love. Well done 10
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02/11/2009 08:52:41 PM
Thanks for the tribute. That's not the first time charliebaker has been called a featherweight:) Beautifully composed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/10/2009 03:05:50 AM
For Pete's sake, which one? He's got 27 Brown Ribbons and every last one of them is a satire. Still, I'll make an assumption, that this one is tackling the green square he entered in the "Red" challenge. And I'll tell you what I think:

This challenge is to "improve" a brown-ribbon shot, and I ask you in all sincerity, "How can you improve on perfection?" Charlie's shot is exactly, precisely what he intended it to be. THIS shot would be no more likely to escape the brown in the "Red" challenge because it's still not red, it's GREEN!

It's a mistake to think that including an object in some way makes it a "better" picture, because by including the object you denature the purity of Charlie's depiction; by giving us nothing but plain green, he forces us to absorb his image on precisely his own terms.

Of course, this is all just philosophy; it has nothing much to do with how well-crafted *your* image is. And you did a decent enough job, photographically, don't get me wrong. I'm just passionate about the validity of Charlie's works :-)
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