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02/03/2013 10:50:07 PM |
| Terrific blissful image!!!! I can relate to this on so many levels. |
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02/03/2013 08:14:11 PM |
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12/13/2010 12:50:12 PM |
| This has so much fun and energy. I really like the style that's been coming thru in all of your pictures. Congrats on the PH blue! |
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12/08/2010 07:29:55 AM |
Originally posted by tanguera:
I feel as though I have just witnessed this in person, and the image has become a memory, fading away but bright with emotion. Love it. |
See? Perfect appreciation of your image as so much more than just a photograph. A comment worth a hundred DPC ribbons. A thousand. |
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12/08/2010 07:25:15 AM |
 You got an X-Prize! For the shots I scored highest, but came in the lowest in the final results.
This is just so full of joy, sun and movement. I think everyone else has said what I need to; it's simply lovely.
Message edited by author 2010-12-08 07:25:36. |
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12/08/2010 01:11:38 AM |
| I feel as though I have just witnessed this in person, and the image has become a memory, fading away but bright with emotion. Love it. |
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12/07/2010 10:13:00 PM |
I am going to let emotion trump all other considerations and give this my personal blue ribbon.
Posthumous Blue Ribbon
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12/07/2010 07:36:08 PM |
| A wonderful moment -- the whole image is in motion. And I also enjoy cutting off adult heads (where pictures of kids or pets are involved). |
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12/07/2010 05:04:38 PM |
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.
Positives: Nice, dreamy image benefitting from atmospheric toning. The blurry dog adds much dynamism to the image and I'm a fan of the chopped head.
Overall: Nicely done. |
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12/06/2010 01:25:46 PM |
It is not easy to persist with an alternate, wilfully low-fidelity vision of photography when you know it will be widely dismissed and underestimated (and I say ‘persist’ advisedly, because this image is no lucky fluke – you obviously know exactly what you are after, and how to get it, and this is clearly not your first try).
With modern digital hardware & software it has become ridiculously easy for virtually anyone to make photographs that will ‘wow’ the family and friends, and even earn the popular acclaim of fellow photography enthusiasts. That’s a good thing and a bad thing. But mostly it’s bad.
The desire for popular approval imposes a sort of artificial selection process; certain kinds of images are routinely ‘selected’, while others – the familial black sheep – are suppressed. Thus the photographic gene pool shrinks, and every photograph begins to look more or less the same as every other. It’s like dog shows, where breeders pursue in a frenzy of misguided inbreeding a prescribed ideal to the point that the ‘best’ dogs soon differ from the rest only in details nearly imperceptible to anyone but a breeder or a judge (i.e. people who have forgotten what a dog is actually for).
Photographs such as this one of yours represent a random mutation, a shot of unfamiliar DNA from some exotic land. You sneak into the DPC village and seduce a few of the more impressionable damsels (or blokes, as the case may be) with thrilling visions of some foreign place, some wicked bohemia of strange lighting, eccentric compositions, and all kinds of deliberate ‘distractions’. You break all the rules. And you even manage to impregnate a couple of the villagers, so that their own photographic offspring will carry forward some small part of your artistic DNA. It’s just a flicker of change in the grand scheme of things, a tiny spark, and yet that’s all it takes. The village is changed forever, and for the better. You cause the blur of just one water drop, the rendering just one ladybug in scratchy monotone, and you can die happy. In some small but imperishable way you will be immortal.
I therefore award you the Charles Darwin Medal for Magnificently Mutant Photography. Congratulations. And thank you.
This is my pick for best photograph in the challenge. 10. |
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12/01/2010 11:24:36 AM |
| A lovely image that is very well composed to create mystery. |
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