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Challenge: The Brothers Grimm (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Virginia, US
Date: Oct 5, 2008
Aperture: f/2.2
ISO: 50
Shutter: 2s
Galleries: Emotive, Blur
Date Uploaded: Oct 5, 2008
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Shot a perfectly acceptable in-focus photo, but ended up liking the happy accident for its emotional punch.
I read Bluebeard as a child and have always had the image in mind of Bluebeard's wife frantically trying to scrub the tell-tale blood off the key to the forbidden room. I think this blurry mess of a shot captures the frenzy quite well.
A Team Sucker who kindly gave me feedback on this shot before entering commented that the slashes of metal looked like blades or swords (to my question of whether the key could be recognized in all that blur) - it's ok if that's what you see, in fact I think it's fitting, given that the fate of Bluebeard's wife was to have her head cut off.
The tale of Bluebeard is credited originally to Charles Perrault (1600's), and was included in the Grimm's first edition of 1812. Apparently the Brothers Grimm removed the tale in later editions, as it resembled two other stories that they kept - The Robber Bridegroom and Fitcher's Birds.
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"...when she looked at the little key of that awful little room at the end of the long gallery on the first floor, she saw that it was stained with blood. She wiped the key and wiped it, but the blood would not come off. She washed it, and scrubbed it with sand and freestone and brick dust, but the blood would not come off; or, if she did succeed in cleaning one side and turned the key over, there was blood on the other side, for it was a magic key which a fairy friend of Bluebeard's had given him."
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10/13/2008 08:21:38 PM |
| Gave this a 10 during voting. LOVE it. a BIG CONGRATS for your Posthumous blue!!! |
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10/13/2008 08:22:20 AM |
| Ha! I told you you'd end up with a posthumous for this! And the blue no less! Congrats! |
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10/13/2008 08:15:30 AM |
| ha! I thought the water was sand through an hourglass, i.e., her time running out. I love that you traded a 6+ photo for this. :D |
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10/13/2008 05:38:44 AM |
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10/13/2008 01:01:06 AM |
| Great, creative work Karen, congratulations on the Blue! |
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10/13/2008 12:10:57 AM |
| big congrats on the p-blue, neighbor ;-) |
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10/12/2008 07:08:34 PM |
| very cool abstract shot - the keys were a bit hard to pick out but i love the motion and the dramatic diagonal lines |
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10/12/2008 06:40:39 PM |
| Intriguing abstract shot in a challenge with very strong contenders. |
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10/09/2008 05:53:06 PM |
| Very abstract to my eye, but very catching at the same time. Quite an intriguing photo. |
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10/08/2008 09:13:18 PM |
She fumbles with the keys as they reveal her time is running out. A commanding photo that easily wins the Posthumous Blue Ribbon.
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10/07/2008 09:04:54 PM |
| Very abstract in this story line... |
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10/07/2008 04:00:41 AM |
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10/06/2008 07:04:51 PM |
| I like the abstractness. Nice flow of lines. |
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10/06/2008 03:14:28 PM |
| I love the vivid red and the flurry of motion but I can't quite make out what's going on. It makes me think of when Lady Bluebeard was trying to wipe the blood clean from the key but also of the scene where she is saved and Bluebeard himself is slaughtered. Either way, pretty awesome abstract. |
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