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Challenge: Posthumous Ribbon (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2010 challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Date: Nov 25, 2010
Aperture: 13
ISO: 250
Shutter: 1/4
Date Uploaded: Nov 25, 2010
[Nov. 26th, 2010 08:07:39 PM]

I what I really wanted to shoot was this:



I had taken that shot quite awhile ago, and was intrigued by what the old glass in the window did to the outside scene. I also loved what the thick walls did when taken from an angle.

Unfortunately, it was the day before thanksgiving, and I got there just as a man was locking up the building. The sun was down, but there were still colors in the sky, so I played for a little while with camera movement shots, for lack of any better ideas or more time.

These were my choices:


I also tried it in B&W:


I really enjoyed voting on this challenge. Well done, everyone!

Statistics
Place: 18 out of 133
Avg (all users): 6.2123
Avg (commenters): 7.4444
Avg (participants): 6.0875
Avg (non-participants): 6.3131
Views since voting: 1053
Views during voting: 379
Votes: 179
Comments: 22
Favorites: 0

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 11/04/2013 02:44:55 PM
Still one of my favorites from that challenge.
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 12/03/2010 12:34:24 PM
I gave this an 8 during voting, but I kind of agree with ursulathat maybe it's just a wee bit too perfect. I love the idea. I also really like the black and white version. This other one really stikes me too - - rather than going around and around it kind of goes down the path of no return. Nice job!!
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 12/03/2010 12:18:41 AM
Nice strong 6+ placing near the top, good going on this! (And there isn't even a bird in it!)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/02/2010 07:56:45 PM
The idea behind the Posthumous Ribbon is to encourage you to break the rules, to find new and different ways to express yourself. To free your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come, to laugh at world and at life, not doing what others are expecting you to do, but just following and listening to what's in your heart. DPC it̢۪s a wonderful learning place where everyone should be supported on their way to be a photographer. A special attention should be aimed to those working hard with different views and approaches to photography, those not aligned with the mainstream taste and receiving no recognition. It̢۪s our responsibility to support these photographers creating diversity and expressing different visions. Being active at the Posthumous thread it̢۪s the best way to do it. Being active at the Posthumous thread it̢۪s the best way to protect your and the other̢۪s freedom of being different. Thanks for taking the time to enter this challenge. Stay wild.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/02/2010 10:31:54 AM
This does feel extremely malevolent. A combination of the colors, swirling motion and reaching tree branches. Well done.
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 12/01/2010 08:07:48 PM
A beautiful vortex. This effect can look cliche in the wrong hands, but it holds up nicely here.
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 12/01/2010 02:22:08 PM
Such a clever idea, I'm jealous. Bumping up
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/30/2010 03:02:49 PM
nice texture and lines
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 11/30/2010 06:24:28 AM
"To vain and gilded promise of the night
And never more distinguish wrong from right."

I'm usually not specially fond of "circular" effect but in this photo it works like a charm, like a strong whirpool or tornado sucking the energy or vital strengh.
Very nice !
(my vote 8)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2010 10:22:31 PM
This looks like an eye (with eyebrows, lashes, and hair) seeing all.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2010 06:33:38 PM
That rotation looks so perfect, almost too perfect maybe. I imagine you putting the lens against a window and spinning it while holding down the shutter button, or something like that. So I imagine looking through a window, or a bottle, at the sunset. It's like a bit of a drunken photo, but not drunk enough to get things wobbly. The colours are pretty. It doesn't give me much of a feeling of devouring though, it's too cheerful for that.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2010 11:26:53 AM
Feels like a person could get pulled into this..and devoured. Yikes. Nicely done and good title.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2010 09:22:02 PM
Interesting use of motion blur. Feels like an evening star trail. Can't say I ever have seen anything like that before.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2010 02:16:33 PM
I like the movement, and the focus away from the sunset.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2010 09:01:40 AM
This is one of my top choices for the challenge. Nice abstract. Having trouble with commenting and scoring in this challenge, however, this one I liked for itself.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/27/2010 09:05:52 PM
"and thus the sad soul that here passes beholds it but through darkened glasses"
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/27/2010 11:17:17 AM
Where is Dorothy and Toto? Is this Kansas? Very neat effect.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/27/2010 01:04:22 AM
You set me a'spinnin' with this image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/26/2010 11:51:31 AM
I had initially submitted a like-minded shot but my execution and outcome were about 20 floors below this one. Excellent composition and all around wonderful shot. Not overdone. Just right. Great work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/26/2010 10:25:31 AM
i believe this art, and photography in one. I give this a ten because it achieves both the artistic rendering of a vision, while at the same time requiring a relatively high technical skills in order to be executed. It is not randomly blurred. It was blurred with precision. And the blurness is not because you lacked the skill and equipment. It is blurred because it was intended to be.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/26/2010 05:06:09 AM
Great effect and well executed.
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 11/26/2010 04:48:57 AM
I'm half through consuming but this is my pick so far! Lovely!!
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