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Love is a reflection
Love is a reflection
greenglobus


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Challenge: Hidden Gem -- 1,000th Challenge! (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5
Location: Morro Bay
Date: Jan 10, 2009
Aperture: F8
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Emotive, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Mar 9, 2009

My friend thought this would be interesting on one of our photo adventures. Our mutual friends can be seen in the reflection. They've been dating for 2 years i think

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Avg (all users): 5.1088
Avg (commenters): 5.7179
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Views since voting: 676
Views during voting: 633
Votes: 478
Comments: 46
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03/17/2009 09:28:47 PM
Double reflection would work.
03/17/2009 03:14:36 PM
Cool shot.
03/17/2009 03:09:01 PM
Cool shot, very creative use of something you found on the beach.
03/17/2009 11:12:17 AM
Unusual but very effective job
03/17/2009 12:25:49 AM
Are you sure that's not just a self portrait? Of course, it is important to be able to love oneself before one can love others, so I guess that works. And it IS a reflection. So,... I hope you are very happy with yourself. Not sure any state in the US would be ok with self-marriage, though. Ok I have to stop now. I'm getting so deep and analytical it's scary.
03/16/2009 11:40:18 PM
I agree. The love that humans share is a reflection of the love that God first gave to use. Lovely image.
03/16/2009 09:41:48 PM
i love the reflection of the two people in the glasses
03/16/2009 04:49:46 PM
very creative
03/16/2009 03:51:27 AM
wow, just wow
03/16/2009 02:39:26 AM
Awesome capture and presentation. Gorgeous. Hope the voters appreciate this.
03/16/2009 12:53:02 AM
Interesting shot, and nice perspective.
03/15/2009 08:39:29 PM
like the reflection, but tighter crop might enhance
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03/15/2009 10:09:34 AM
I like the reflection, neat.
03/15/2009 09:38:22 AM
greta - too bad u can see the person in the reflection
03/15/2009 05:47:13 AM
very nice idea
5
brano
03/15/2009 03:57:44 AM
For years she had dealt with all that he had to give. The abuses, the yelling, the burning, the hitting. For years she had lived under his tyrannic rule. Held under the threats and the insults and the... but she couldn't think of what the worst had been. Not even now. Not even in her time of triumph.

For one day, while he beat her again for a perceived slight against his manhood, she had discovered something. Something that lay dormant deep within here. Something that had suddenly woke.

In her pain and her tears and her tortured embarrassment, frustration, and anger, it had been borne upon her without warning. It had seeped from her very thoughts, and the photograph of him that she had been staring at, on the bedside table, had suddenly melted into a greasy liquid ash before her very eyes. She had blinked in sudden shock and surprise, but then it hit her. She had done that. Her.

It was then that the plan of her revenge and liberation was set in motion, and for the next few weeks she was the perfect wife. She did everything he asked, without fail, without protest. She cooked him his favorite meals. She opened to him in bed in his favorite... but that was not worth thinking about. In the end, she had won him to her side, if briefly, and by some small miracle he had agreed to the walk on the beach that day.

Now, she stood there, a feral grin on her face, and a wild and liberating madness in her eyes, as she watched the glasses that had, until a moment before been set upon his face, slowly sank into the grime on which they lay. Grime that had been, just a moment before, her evil abusive husband. She had finally done it. She was finally free. She was finally rid of him and every horrific thing that he had stood for.

She stood there and watched as his stinking and slime ridden remains soaked into the sand of the beach...

... and she laughed.
03/14/2009 10:03:51 PM
Good idea. A bit to dark for me.
03/14/2009 09:10:53 PM
Interpretation of Topic: Very Creative
Photography: Great Job
Viewers Reaction:Interesting
03/14/2009 03:57:59 PM
Fun reflection shot
03/14/2009 02:21:01 PM
good concept
03/14/2009 01:41:53 PM
I like the idea. Nice composition and use of the light
03/14/2009 09:40:36 AM
Nice title for this shot. Good composition.
03/14/2009 07:10:48 AM
Uhm. I don't see love in the reflection. I just see you taking a picture.

Sorry.
03/14/2009 05:37:20 AM
Cool shot, I like the glasses are partially buried, great how much colour your get from the reflection
03/14/2009 05:14:38 AM
good capture of the reflection. 6
03/14/2009 12:34:01 AM
7 for the visual poetry of this shot.
03/13/2009 07:14:39 PM
I like the star effect you got on the sun
03/13/2009 05:30:57 PM
Good reflection.
03/13/2009 03:48:28 PM
Great job with the reflection.
03/13/2009 12:38:58 PM
Good use of darks and lights. Love the reflection and highlights.
03/13/2009 12:34:07 PM
cool reflection in the glasses
03/13/2009 09:10:49 AM
Nice composition. Reflection is great.
03/13/2009 12:32:32 AM
Different perspective. Hope they were cheap glasses!
03/12/2009 10:23:01 PM
Very creative shot. I would have ditched the purse though:)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/12/2009 09:01:37 PM
Very nice capture.
03/12/2009 08:06:25 PM
Good on you for seeing the art in this. Nice feel and story. Good detail.
03/12/2009 03:41:15 PM
cool idea, well done shot.
03/12/2009 02:19:49 PM
interesting concept
03/12/2009 08:50:50 AM
Nice idea.
03/12/2009 04:31:26 AM
clever like the reflection in the glasses
03/12/2009 02:02:43 AM
Engaging shot
03/11/2009 11:44:16 PM
Nice.
03/11/2009 09:41:18 PM
I love reflections - this is very nicely done.
03/11/2009 09:31:10 PM
lacks a wow factor
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/11/2009 05:31:09 PM
great shot, i'm sure you know the reflection is awesome
03/11/2009 08:05:27 AM
cool


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