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01/20/2008 01:52:51 PM |
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám as adapted by Edward Fitzgerald
This probably gets my OOBIE vote because I'm such a sucker (sic) for all the essence-of-clown that infuses the picture. The grain, the lack of uprightness and/or direction, the unicycle that isn't - there's a mood of melancholy tedium which, of itself, is antithesis to photography in general let alone dpc, but it's so up front and total with the emotion that it does it just as the classic clown does it. And if none of that was within a mile of your thoughts or intentions then hey, you got lucky, so make with a big clown smile. |
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01/16/2008 07:23:02 PM |
| You have a great sense of humor and I as a dolt gave you a 3. Darn it. Once the moving hand has writ no something or other will ever bring it back... I came back to atone for my sins and appreciate the photo. |
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01/16/2008 07:21:36 PM |
| Sorry, never crossed my mind that a measuring wheel could be seen as a unicycle. Obvious to me now that it has been pointed out! |
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01/16/2008 08:40:00 AM |
| I gave this a 7. I love the tilt. and the more I think about this and how it echoes clowns without being a clown, the more I like it. |
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01/16/2008 04:18:39 AM |
Damn! Not only do you branch out and take over the brown ribbon industry, you rap out two superbly sensitive shots while you do it. This gives you licence to put on your Pierrot Lunaire costume and sit in the corner with steams of fake tears gushing out of your eyes.
Without having trawled through all the entries, the expected thing would be the obvious clown icon thing - several steps and a ten foot pole removed from the essence of clownerism, i.e. naked emotional naïveté.
Now tell me I can't talk out of my (epithet removed due to orthographic inconsistency). |
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01/16/2008 02:36:36 AM |
Oh, the tilted horizon isn't soooo bad. Or it wouldn't be with a little crop off the top. But the guy ... isn't he wheeling one of those distance-measuring things, not a unicycle? On the other hand, that just adds even more to his needing to dream.
Anyway, Jayson, buck up! It's a whole new week. :) |
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01/16/2008 01:06:00 AM |
Originally posted by JuliBoc:
Congratulations on your brown. 38 ones is impressive. Of course if you enter a shot that has nothing to do with the challenge and has a tilted horizon, you are pretty well guaranteed a ribbon. |
How can you say that it has nothing to do with the challenge? A man about to get on a unicycle and the title "dreams of clownhood"...I think its a BRILLIANT take on the challenge! Much better than all the ugly pictures of clown statues:P Good job man, I gave you an 8:P..maybe a bit generous, but I just liked the idea so much hehe... |
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01/16/2008 12:37:18 AM |
| Congratulations on your brown. 38 ones is impressive. Of course if you enter a shot that has nothing to do with the challenge and has a tilted horizon, you are pretty well guaranteed a ribbon. |
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01/16/2008 12:15:57 AM |
| Wow, another brown. You go, dude. Actually, this is pretty funny with the potential uni-cycle and all. The gull did a nice job posing for you. Nice tilted horizon too :D |
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01/16/2008 12:09:00 AM |
Oh come on. I gave you a 5. Yes, it is a little soft, but it's nicely composed.
Well, you did get the brown, that says something. |
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01/15/2008 09:25:16 PM |
| Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't get it. Where's the clown? |
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01/15/2008 06:07:39 PM |
| Nice composition. Looks a bit noisy though. |
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01/15/2008 06:06:39 PM |
I get the connection, but just a bit too far out of the box to make a strong case - not saying dnmc because it isnt, it just isnt far enough into the challenge, plus although the image is ok compositionally it just looks unimpressive. Noise, tilt and drab colour scheme adds to that.
Just trying to be helpful on an image i didnt score to well. |
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01/15/2008 06:57:00 AM |
| Well, it is a nicely composed image, but a) seems as if it could use some counter-clockwise rotation and b) a bit of a "shoehorn" for the challenge. |
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01/14/2008 10:10:39 PM |
| I don't think this meets the challenge. The horizon line isn't even level. However, it is kind of a cool pic compositionally. |
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01/14/2008 09:46:52 PM |
| For me, this is a bit of a stretch for the challenge. I do like the simplicity of your composition though. |
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01/14/2008 03:12:04 PM |
Where's that shoehorn when you really need it? I think that is a measuring device he is using. Maybe it does not strike me as fitting the challenge because I know what the device is?
Lots of blur and high ISO noise. |
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01/14/2008 03:18:38 AM |
| I have my doubts that this one will ribbon...but I totally love the idea behind the photo! Wonderful sense of humor!(7) |
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01/13/2008 05:11:43 PM |
| I see what you did here. LOL I wish you'd straightened out the ground and cropped the distant shore altogether. I like the play of the gull against the ranger with the pedometer. Very nice. |
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01/13/2008 12:27:58 PM |
| I really don't see the connection to the challenge topic. Also don't know why the image wasn't straightened. |
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01/12/2008 11:57:19 AM |
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01/12/2008 11:04:42 AM |
| meaning, that is supposed to be a unicycle? otherwise I don't get it. Aside from that why is it sooo noisy? |
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01/12/2008 12:29:54 AM |
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01/11/2008 03:15:29 PM |
| You are kind of reaching, aren't you? |
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01/11/2008 09:16:49 AM |
| A bit of a stretch for the theme, I feel. |
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01/11/2008 09:09:34 AM |
Doesn't seem very "clown" if you ask me.
Very noisy. |
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01/11/2008 04:46:26 AM |
| Dreams of clownhood? Not sure I see that, unless you are aiming for a link with a unicycle in which case I think it's just a bit too much of a stretch. Horizon could do with being straigtened and the focus isn't quite there. |
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01/10/2008 10:42:21 PM |
| This is really cute coupled with the title. Without it I have no clue that the subject is clowns though. |
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01/10/2008 04:45:44 PM |
| think he's have a hard time riding that :) also the tilt of the photo is distracting either rotating about a degree CCW or cropping out the land at the top would help |
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01/10/2008 03:07:25 PM |
| A bit of a stretch, perhaps, but it's an interesting spin on the theme. The horizon could stand to be leveled though. |
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01/10/2008 12:32:01 AM |
| Too much 'shoe in' for me. The horizon is not straight and the is a lack of sharp focus too. |
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01/10/2008 12:18:59 AM |
| your horson is not straight 5 |
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01/10/2008 12:01:50 AM |
| I like the title, but man that's a stretch! Paints a great picture. |
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01/09/2008 11:29:54 PM |
| I'm sorry. I didn't understand it. It looks more like a park ranger with a measuring wheel than a person dreaming of being a clown. |
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01/09/2008 10:18:09 PM |
| Good timing ...thats the way keep looking for all points. |
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01/09/2008 10:08:15 PM |
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01/09/2008 04:18:46 PM |
| I took a second, but I got it.. unicycle! Very creative! |
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01/09/2008 03:25:18 PM |
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01/09/2008 02:56:54 PM |
| I can see it but I wish he was in focus more. |
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01/09/2008 01:22:43 PM |
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01/09/2008 11:36:17 AM |
| Looks like the Gull in the background and the channel marker are more in focus then the subject |
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01/09/2008 09:41:00 AM |
| Not working for me; that's one of those distance-measuring devices being used by a Park Service ranger-type. If it looked like he was giving any consideration to balancing on it I'd buy into it but he looks pretty expressionless from this angle. As an image (apart from the challenge) it's OK. A little noisy, composition is OK; wish the bird was watching him or something to add a little more interest. |
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01/09/2008 02:36:37 AM |
| i guess that's meant to be a unicycle? |
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01/09/2008 01:48:18 AM |
| At first I thought it was a unicycle, but it looks like a distance measuring wheel. Maybe he's thinking clown, but the picture doesn't tell me that. Plus it's very obviously crooked, he's too close to the bottom and 95% of the picture is flat water. On the good side, you have the buoy and the guy nearly on the thirds intersections. Sorry, I can't justify a high score. |
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01/09/2008 12:30:28 AM |
| lol..funny pic, I might have straightened the horizon line though. |
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