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Bought to protect his family!
Bought to protect his family!
JC_Homola


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Challenge: Irony (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: San Antonio Texas
Date: Sep 29, 2003
Aperture: 1/30
ISO: 50
Shutter: 5.6
Galleries: Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Sep 29, 2003

I own guns. Handguns, shotguns, rifles, antique military weapons.

I find it ironic that so many tragedies occur and well intentioned people are so shocked when a child shoots another with a weapon bought to protect them.

Education is the key to safety, not "hiding" it under the mattress.

Statistics
Place: 60 out of 131
Avg (all users): 5.0083
Avg (commenters): 5.7647
Avg (participants): 4.7391
Avg (non-participants): 5.1163
Views since voting: 1006
Votes: 241
Comments: 17
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10/07/2003 09:10:10 PM
I like the Smoking Gun effect
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10/07/2003 04:17:17 AM
Lightings not too bad, wou'dve been better if there wasn't a shadow on the paper below, and the back be slightly more out of focus. Photo needs the title to see the irony in it, which loses a few points from me, also I'm not sure what it is, but the edge of the gun is much whiter on the page below, which adds too much contrast to the edge. I like the slight smoke comming from it aswell. a subtle adition and does the image well. --7
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10/05/2003 02:25:24 PM
Good concept, and a well thought out shot. I think it needs tighter cropping - all that black at the top doesn't really add anything.
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10/03/2003 12:28:49 PM
Good capture, I like the detail, B/W is great.
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10/03/2003 12:22:58 PM
Well, may be we can call that "black irony" but I like this one.
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10/02/2003 09:10:13 PM
Unfortunate, but true
10/02/2003 03:42:24 PM
Get your sense of humor in order and show us a bit of irony.

Now is this funny, haha? or just morbidly ironic?
10/01/2003 10:57:54 PM
Technically, I don't like the blurry newspaper, you used too much usm, and there are no details in the gun. It is ironic that such things happen so I will give you a 6
10/01/2003 08:57:38 PM
Chilling Thought. 8
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10/01/2003 06:59:15 PM
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 1/3; technical: 1/3; aesthetics: 0/3; total: 3
10/01/2003 04:56:40 PM
i might have focused on the print rather than the gun for this one.
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10/01/2003 12:04:19 PM
Ya an irony of not letting the child know about the dangers of guns at a younger age.
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10/01/2003 10:15:12 AM
Ironic for sure! I think you could have cropped out some of the negative space at the top of the image and maybe included more of the newspaper clipping and the gun.
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10/01/2003 10:00:55 AM
This one truley captures the theme. A slightly distracting shadow on the bottom text, but the smoking barrel more than made up for it. I'd be interested to know what you did to simulate the smoking barrel. spent match?
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10/01/2003 09:57:58 AM
More sad than ironic. As for the picture, the gun is very dark, maybe a bit more light and contrast would have worked for me.
10/01/2003 09:09:43 AM
not bad - but taking a photo of text is a cop-out - you should say what you want to say with the photo
10/01/2003 01:43:50 AM
Ironic and terrible.
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