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Beachy Head. On average, one person jumps every 3 weeks.
Beachy Head. On average, one person jumps every 3 weeks.
marbo


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: From Above (Classic Editing)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: Beachy Head
Date: Mar 13, 2003
ISO: 200
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: Mar 15, 2003

 500ft cliffs at Beachy head, Sussex, England.
1997:There were four deaths from February to May: three men and a woman, average age 32. Then comes an ugly cluster. On a Wednesday in June an 84-year-old lady goes over. The following Wednesday a man jumps with his two young sons. On July 5 it is a man in his thirties; as nobody reports him missing, he is still unidentified five months later. On July 7 - a Monday - two more plunge to the beach, falling so close together that the deaths are thought a suicide pact. In fact it is coincidence. He is 35, she 66, and they are strangers. Since then there have been another five: three men, two women, average age 43.

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Place: 21 out of 203
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Votes: 195
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 03/25/2003 03:37:03 PM
CC Hello there marbo

Fits The Challenge- WOW yes.
Composition- Good perspective shot.
Background- Wonderful
My Opinion- Hummm, I like this shot very much. I want to go to England so much and see sights just like this. This is a place I hope that you can photograph often at different times of the year. I think some levels adjustment and saturation would work well with this photo. The lighthouse is a bonus for the eyes enjoyment. Good work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/23/2003 05:54:31 PM
wow, very intense shot. the title adds quite a bit of mystery/danger. the lighthouse looks so tiny! the scale seems to be skewed, I can't wrap my head around the true distance.
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 03/23/2003 05:15:41 PM
where is beachy head? and why such a high suicide rate?
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 03/22/2003 09:32:59 PM
Nice shot. I do not like the explanations in the title. I do not like the red border it distract too much from the image. Nice angle and nice photo. Lionel
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 03/21/2003 11:37:13 PM
A good composition and subject. The power lines runing down to the lighthouse are interetesting. Unforetunate the water color was not cooperating on this day. Good image.
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 03/21/2003 08:41:52 PM
thanks for the pick-me-up.
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 03/21/2003 06:06:49 PM
Red borders are very distracting but this is a very good photo. I love the perspective. There is a very good feeling of distance and height.

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 03/21/2003 09:55:19 AM
I really like this photo, but the red frame pulls my eye away from your subject.
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 03/20/2003 04:46:44 PM
very nice
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 03/20/2003 11:45:59 AM
beautiful!!! makes u wanna to go swimming. great picture.
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 03/19/2003 10:07:36 PM
Great lighthouse. Bad title.
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 03/19/2003 10:06:41 PM
Beautiful shot of the water, cliffs and the lighthouse. Beautiful colors in the waters below, and those colors on the lighthouse are lovely. It's just so sad that people could come to such a lovely place as this to end their lives!
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 03/19/2003 06:08:07 PM
Very picturesque.
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 03/19/2003 12:19:32 AM
Someone jumps every 3 weeks? Where is this? Nice shot, the lighthouse almost looks like a toy it's so small. I love the colors. Great and natural looking.
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 03/18/2003 09:51:36 PM
This must be really high, looking at the little light house below. I feel that the color of the border takes away from the shot. I would like to see more of the water and less of the nearby grass.
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 03/18/2003 08:41:42 PM
Hmmm... This looks familiar. I was just there freezing my butt off, taking pictures for this challenge. I didn't enter the ones I took there. Good shot tho! Not sure about the border.
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 03/18/2003 03:10:58 PM
they jump from that? do they live??
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 03/18/2003 02:46:27 PM
nice photo, i like the angle
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 03/18/2003 02:39:33 PM
nice image, creative idea, i like detail
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 03/18/2003 02:27:32 PM
good idea and nice creativity
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 03/17/2003 11:18:52 PM
Beautiful shot. I think that your red border takes away from the shot though.
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 03/17/2003 10:11:38 PM
excellent shot... the bit of red on the lighthouse really makes this photo work nicely :) - setzler
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 03/17/2003 07:52:51 PM
Great composition. TWith or without the border, it's still a good photo. IMO, it shouldn't be added unless it improves the image. Do I make sense?
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 03/17/2003 05:16:53 PM
Totally cool shot.......wow. Love this and hope to see it again when the season changes. Neat work.
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 03/17/2003 03:56:19 PM
Not sure about the red border. I was thinking about doing this shot too :)
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 03/17/2003 03:41:45 PM
Great shot, love the angle. Just a lovely picture! Something that should be on my wall!
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 03/17/2003 11:52:57 AM
I don't like the title or the border but it is a good picture and IO think it meets the challenge well 7
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 03/17/2003 09:57:42 AM
How inspiring, not the jumping the photo.
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 03/17/2003 04:02:24 AM
Moving closer to the edge and tilting the camear down more might better convey the danger and height you are at. Also, the title seems a bit too much. I would have left out the suicide stuff for it's rather disheartening.
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