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Girl With A Pearl Earring
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Lydia


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Challenge: Unusual Uses For Everyday Objects (Expert Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Date: Aug 16, 2012
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/15
Date Uploaded: Aug 15, 2012

Had something totally different entered... the evening of Rollover.

So... here we are now.


One of my beautiful and helpful daughter's Top Five Things She Fears (only found this out today...) is having slits (like old women) for her earring holes.

We were brainstorming and came up with using something as earrings.

I pulled our beaters out of the kitchen drawer.

Her response was immediate and loud: "ABSOLULTELY NOT!!"

Game on. *grin*

So... in between shots (after I talked her into actually dangling them from her lobes instead of me Expert Editing them in), I'd say "okay" and she'd hold the weight of them off of her lobes.

She's a trooper.

I love her.


I took others with both earrings showing... but the earrings seemed to overwhelm the image (duh! wonder WHY?!)... so I took this shot with only one.


I'm gonna see if I can find out the other four of her Top Five Fears and make her shoot with them next week! LOL!!

Poor girl. Such a sweetheart with such a nasty mom... *sad sigh*


I hope you like it.

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Statistics
Place: 7 out of 33
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08/30/2012 11:03:32 AM
Little late in my congrats, way to go, my dear!!!
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08/26/2012 07:27:25 PM
Amazing, Lydia! So amazing... who knows but that we won't start seeing this pop up on the cover of fashion magazines! Congratulations!
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08/25/2012 02:50:04 PM
Congrats on the Placeing!!!! and Kudo's to your brave darling!! It makes my lobes hurt!! LOL
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08/25/2012 02:15:58 PM
Cue Sonny & Cher: And the beat(er) goes on! Very funny.

Message edited by author 2012-08-25 14:16:12.
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08/24/2012 02:02:19 AM
You clever girl! Love the matching eyes/dress. Congrats on the bling.
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08/24/2012 01:51:48 AM
I see you are not beating yourself up over the child abuse, Hehe.

It really has something special to it, like PH said. Thanks for being the tyrant that you are, all in the name of the arts.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/23/2012 11:51:31 PM
I'm enamored of this image for some obscure aesthetic reason I have trouble articulating. I think it has to do with the odd framing that makes her neck and chest look like one flat plane.

I'm hanging this in my fantasy art gallery.

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08/23/2012 10:47:18 PM
exquisite blurs, details, and color... lovely looking model.
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08/23/2012 09:27:34 PM
This is so well constructed and felt that I can't but wonder at the off-center crop when the centered crop seems so much better. 6
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08/23/2012 08:11:28 PM
Now, get in the kitchen.
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08/23/2012 10:17:51 AM
Very creative but wow that must be heavy
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08/23/2012 06:09:24 AM
adorable 8
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08/22/2012 12:49:35 PM
Lol - lovely photo of a very pretty model, too!
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08/21/2012 02:42:27 PM
Believe it or not, I've actually seen ear rings like this. Unreal. Nicely posed, but again, the half face thing that appears to be a recent technique here is driving me nuts - I hate it.
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08/21/2012 10:21:08 AM
What a cute idea. I like the color coordination between her dress and eyes.
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08/21/2012 01:28:16 AM
Don't beat yourself up trying to decide what earrings to wear!
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08/19/2012 04:35:41 PM
Brilliant!!!!!!! Must try this sometime :-)
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08/19/2012 09:08:14 AM
As there are only 33 entries I will place them for my own fun 18th
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08/17/2012 09:58:48 AM
I'll bet those get uncomfortalble after a while.
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08/17/2012 09:42:57 AM
This is great! Actually reminds me of the movie Zoolander - with models wearing ridiculous getups. Given the things some designers put on their models, i could see this happening!
I love the detail and clarity in the models eye and beaded top, they're very complimentary. :)
I hope to see this finish with high marks!
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08/17/2012 12:05:52 AM
Ha!
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