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Under the Skin
Under the Skin
Alicia


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Camera: Kodak C875
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Jul 30, 2007

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 I'm having a few difficult days, so I've been slacking with this side challenge - not to mention the official challenges.

My challenge entry 'So, so you think you can tell heaven from hell' is a photo of a cat skull. I took it and put it under a closeup of Cosima. Though Cosima is on a different angle than the skull, I still like the effect. Almost like she is either moving into or out of the skull.

After three comments (and thank you all!!) I'm going to add a little here.

It never occurred to me that this shot might be creepy (which says something about me). I do appreciate that others might feel that way, though. I've always had this thing where I'm afraid of things others are not - such as moths and butterflies, for example - and not at all afraid of things that others have problems with, such as skulls, scorpions and snakes (oh my).

So I just wanted to mention that here because I was first surprised and then remembered that this might indeed be creepy to some :oD.

And that said - I've not been able to look at Jon's moth shot. I saw it in the thumb and scrolled right past it. Now THAT'S creepy! LOL!

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 08/04/2007 12:22:32 PM
Yeah, sorry to be one of the common throng, but I admit I find this disturbing, even though I did not recognize the skull as such! Interesting work.
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 08/01/2007 06:02:24 PM
Very cool effect, on the creepy side but in the way that I want to keep looking at it to figure out what is going on!
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 07/31/2007 11:37:18 PM
Wow very interesting overlay. lol I am just plain unobservant and thought it was just a weird closeup of kitty. So creative!
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 07/31/2007 04:10:20 PM
Did I read right, afraid of butterflies & not snakes? Yeah, I can't lie....that is a tad strange :) This does look creepy to me, like it's about to come to life & kill us all! :0
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 07/30/2007 10:48:40 PM
Totally weird and creepy, but very good work. I love fooling around with layers. I find that they end result is sometimes a lot more interesting that what I started out with.
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 07/30/2007 08:15:48 PM
Very cool and yeah creepy! I LOVE it. Butterflys huh? interesting...
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 07/30/2007 07:09:27 PM
Alicia

So just to confirm I have this correct...Moth = creepy. Cosima transposed on the skull of a dead cat = normal....Ahh my mistake

Actually I have to say this is a pretty funky effect, especially as you have lined it up so cosima's retina runs along a fracture line of the skull which gives it a very cool effect (almost as if the retina is printed on some kind of parchment)

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 07/30/2007 03:37:23 PM
This is just plain creepy, but in a good way.
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 07/30/2007 03:29:57 PM
I think I'm reading this right... you overlayed Cosima onto the original layer of the cat skull? I love textured images like this. It's quite subtle, but very different. It ups the spooky scale quite a bit! Great idea.
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 07/30/2007 12:10:27 PM
This is kinda scary . . .
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