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We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
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Challenge: Opening Lines (Expert Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Kittatinny Valley State Park, NJ
Date: Feb 1, 2015
Aperture: 8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 800
Date Uploaded: Feb 2, 2015

 Tracks, by Louise Erdrich. Sadly, I didn't read the book. This is a Google shoehorn.

calculations to b/w, with a couple of layers of curves to get those whites nice and white and those darks nice and dark.

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 08/11/2015 10:17:27 AM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

An intriguing image needing the title too to fulfil the challenge brief.

Given the nature of the challenge the title is as much a part of the viewers interpretation and therefore the end result as the image itself. I like the high contrast mono treatment you have given the image, I like the gritty irregular surface of both the road and the snow it works well together. I like the diagonal of the composition.

I can see the relevance of the snow in your image but I am struggling to see how the road marking contributes. My interpretation, which may well be wrong, is that it signifies divergence or splitting up and that in doing so the loss of our collective strength and so we will fall? Or is it that the road marking is showing signs of decay and was starting to fail before the snows came and they will soon cover it completely? Your comment about a Google shoehorn doesn't help me, I don't understand it. However, like ubique I was intrigued by the title and had to check it out on Amazon, it looks absolutely my sort of book so thanks for the lead! Perhaps you will read the book too?

Thank you for yet another stimulating entry, Sid
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 02/16/2015 05:39:21 PM
You put the "sexy" back into ruin porn. Beautiful!
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 02/13/2015 02:11:42 AM
Hard to resist reading it, after that opening line, is it not? I'm going to read it, for the line and because your photograph is beautifully brutal. A sort of uncaring caress. No idea what to book is about yet, but my first thought from the line and the image was of the Spanish Civil War. Somewhere high up in the north, among the Basques. So thank you.
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