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No Healing Without Faith
No Healing Without Faith
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Challenge: Alternative Medicine (Basic Editing)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 17.5-45mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Home
Date: Mar 6, 2007
Aperture: f/4.7
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/80s
Galleries: Emotive, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Mar 6, 2007

 Post Challenge: 20th place is okay. Just to clarify the faith thing: we use faith all the time without really being conscious of it. If we didn't think our local GP's could fix us up with a tablet or two, antibiotics etc then we wouldn't even pay them a visit. The same with Alternative Medicine - we resort to herbs, prayer, potions, pills, a mixture of them all - whatever we think/believe has the power to heal us.

This is kind of a family portrait: the hands of me, Best Beloved's, Finn and Lily. Finn was the most unco-operative: while he begged to be the "Yogi Man", he couldn't keep still.

Statistics
Place: 20 out of 131
Avg (all users): 6.2786
Avg (commenters): 7.9130
Avg (participants): 5.9444
Avg (non-participants): 6.3654
Views since voting: 2371
Views during voting: 450
Votes: 262
Comments: 25
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/13/2007 03:37:47 PM
I like how the candle ties them all together. Very interesting.
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 03/13/2007 12:00:56 PM
Not really doing it for me but you have obviously done your homework on this and i think it deserves a pretty good score for that alone.
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 03/12/2007 11:26:46 AM
Interesting idea. I like the angle you shot this from.
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 03/12/2007 11:22:52 AM
The little bit of cloth texture showing bothers me a bot, but I like the idea so much and find it so original compared to the rest of the entries that I'm bumping thus up anyway.
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 03/11/2007 11:10:07 PM
super creative and well thought through - one of my ribbon picks
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 03/11/2007 07:11:22 PM
I like your idea, but for some reason it just doesn't hold all together for me.I think the palm open hands really distracts because it takes up half of the image space and the other three sets of hands takes the other half. the image here is just lacking something to hold it all together. I do enjoy the concept, but just doesn't work fully for me.
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 03/11/2007 03:08:06 PM
sigh
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 03/10/2007 02:43:42 PM
all together!
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 03/09/2007 08:15:29 PM
Very nicely crafted composition easily 'worth 1000 words', I like its message of diversity and unity at the same time.
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 03/09/2007 08:03:15 PM
I like the cultural unity and the form of each hand. It is very moving and creative. Even though it is simplistic it creates a deep feeling.
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 03/08/2007 11:40:31 PM
WOW...very cool concept & execution for the challenge. While I am no expert, I believe all is technically sound. The range of ages among the hands is a particularly attentive touch. 11 oh sorry not an option :( 10
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 03/08/2007 08:45:21 PM
mmm. Very pretty, cool composition.
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 03/08/2007 01:03:54 PM
cool message - like the choice to have multiple faiths represented
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 03/08/2007 11:53:44 AM
the skin tones look a small bit off to me. I do like the idea though. 7
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 03/08/2007 10:06:44 AM
nice message. whether this photograph is good or not (which it is btw), you hit the nail on the head with this concept. no one heals without The Healer:)
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 03/08/2007 01:45:02 AM
Nice simple image but meets the challenge well - The simple lighting adds to this - Nice capture 9
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 03/07/2007 11:49:42 PM
Awesome image here, and deserves a ribbon IMO.....
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 03/07/2007 07:45:51 PM
I love this idea and would love to see it in black and white.
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 03/07/2007 01:42:12 PM
I like the thought put into this picture.
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 03/07/2007 01:40:45 PM
I like that you included different faiths here, well done.
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 03/07/2007 11:09:53 AM
I like how the backround sets off the hands. Very creative. The candle also draws attention, but not to much. Good Job! 8
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 03/07/2007 08:58:35 AM
This is just an awesome shot! I love how everyone is doing something different with their hands. Very creative, really catches my attention.
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 03/07/2007 02:58:24 AM
i happen to dissagree, but a beutful image nonetheless, epecially the detail in the henna. 9
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 03/07/2007 01:08:12 AM
Excellent idea, design and lighting. 10.
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 03/07/2007 12:13:10 AM
The sand speckles catch my eye. But I like the idea. nice work!
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