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Taxies II: Tomare!
Taxies II: Tomare!
gjumi


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Solo (Basic Editing)
Camera: Pentax *ist DL2
Lens: Sigma 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 DL Aspherical Hyperzoom for Pentax (Silver)
Location: Top-Bottom of the hotel
Date: Jun 24, 2007
Aperture: 1/4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/19
Date Uploaded: Jun 25, 2007

 Processing done with gimp and it's ufraw plug-in.
I hope people will see the solo action of the taxi. I believe you know that Tomare is the Japanese for Stop! Now the challenge is to find it written on the photo.

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Place: 202 out of 249
Avg (all users): 4.8684
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
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Views since voting: 653
Views during voting: 220
Votes: 152
Comments: 6
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AuthorThread
 07/04/2007 04:31:12 AM
How's this related to solo? Well, there's a single taxi moving, so that guy went solo, while the other two guys are still waiting, strengthening the feeling of the solo action of the other taxi. Now, not only that he went solo, but he went rebellious, because the sign says Tomare, which means Stop! As the homeless cat ( noraneko )observes, it's written upside down, so maybe the Taxi understood it in an upside down way, meaning to the opposite of what the message says. But, people don't know about the Taxi's ways of thinking, so that's why they look so baffled. And, it's five (baffled?) people, don't forget the ojii-sans. I can't say all of them are, the top most left ojii-san seems like he doesn't care what's going on.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/28/2007 09:41:13 AM
Interesting image, quite good on its own, but very difficult for me to fit in the context of the challenge. Perhaps if if you had cropped out the lower vehicles.
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 06/28/2007 08:25:00 AM
This is a really cool photo - I especially like the upside-down tomare - but it doesn't really fit the challenge, especially as there are three people in the crosswalk.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2007 03:28:25 PM
Very neat capture. Wish the stationary parts were more in focus
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 06/27/2007 10:27:38 AM
nice exposure.
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 06/27/2007 09:17:00 AM
This meets the challenge how?
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