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...two lost souls Swimming in a fishbowl...
...two lost souls Swimming in a fishbowl...
xianart


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Pink Floyd (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date: Dec 19, 2006
Aperture: f14
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/8
Date Uploaded: Dec 19, 2006

 a fishbowl, some water, some food colouring, and a computer monitor. voila!

just to show where this line comes from, for those who weren't sure...

Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd, 1975

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.

Statistics
Place: 48 out of 151
Avg (all users): 5.9062
Avg (commenters): 6.5385
Avg (participants): 5.5833
Avg (non-participants): 6.0244
Views since voting: 6679
Views during voting: 401
Votes: 224
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0

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 12/28/2006 11:58:47 PM
You executed the idea beautifully. I so love the blue sky behind the bowl and the upshot really works. I also considered doing this for "our" lyric (rummaged through my brain for all sorts of souls - tissue paper, toile, dye, etc and then finally chickened out and drew them, which definitely had its problems). I would have been very happy to have submitted this.
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 12/27/2006 07:17:15 PM
Decent score and 7 '10's. Well deserved. I think you did and excellent job of illustrating that line. A red and blue Fighting Fish swimming gracefully would really have made this shot awesome, but that's pie in the sky, because it would have messed up your souls.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/26/2006 05:37:16 PM
This is creative and cool. I like the area where the two dyes seem to melt into one. I also like the continuity of the sky running through the whole photo. Great job. 8.
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 12/25/2006 03:52:47 PM
Sorry, how does this link to Pink Floyd?
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 12/24/2006 11:05:46 AM
...year after year... Very creative. Nicely done. 9...oh never mind...10! Because you used some different lyrics than most. Merry Christmas!
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 12/23/2006 01:10:55 PM
I like the concept a lot. Would have been better for me if the left color wasn't blue like the background. Crop is neat.
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 12/23/2006 01:10:13 PM
interesting symbolism - I like the crop and the glass is photographed well - just enough reflection.
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 12/23/2006 12:32:42 PM
Nice capture of this concept!
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 12/23/2006 07:35:13 AM
I can see where you're going with this, representing the souls with the randomly dispersing swhorls of ink and I do think it's a clever idea but visually it leaves me feeling something is missing - that it's not quite there. I can't put my finger on why. The sky background is nice too though I'd not use blue as one of the two inks infront of it - perhaps red and green inks would be better?
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 12/23/2006 05:19:48 AM
7
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 12/22/2006 10:44:35 PM
full of soul - great concept excellent execution
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 12/22/2006 10:03:07 PM
the water drops are my only suggestion on this wonderful image - with that dried up this is a superb image
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 12/21/2006 12:24:01 PM
I like this idea, but I think it would have been more effective with a different backdrop and if you could have seen more of the fishbowl. There are also distracting dots, maybe bubbles, in the foreground and droplets of water inside the top of the bowl.
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 12/20/2006 06:55:57 PM
Very nice
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 12/20/2006 05:18:47 PM
nice idea, but maybe fish instead?
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 12/20/2006 05:07:45 PM
What a great idea.
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 12/20/2006 05:08:49 AM
Novel idea. :) Is that paint?
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 12/20/2006 03:39:00 AM
Neat! Love the bright colors. For me might have been better if you could see more of the bowl.
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 12/20/2006 02:08:55 AM
Excellent idea! 7
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