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Challenge: Sentinel (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Street
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
Date: Jan 28, 2011
Aperture: f/1.2
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8000
Galleries: Candid, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 28, 2011

 Post challenge:

Thanks for so many wonderful comments and some interesting comments on the title. It is of course just a visual representation of the three heads and the sentinel in the image. Certainly the space between the couple is important to the scene and is fundamental to my interpretation of the image.

For me, the phallic sentinel structure could represent a metaphor for the role of protector / defender that is expected of the male gender. However, the male characteristics of physical strength all too often are used not to protect but to dominate. Thus the phallic sentinel, for me, represents the male dominated society that watches over and controls us all. The fact that the woman is sat at the base of the sentinel and is thus the one most dominated by its appearance emphasises this impression.

Did I see all this when I shot it? Nope! But it is what emerged from the subsequent edit and post-hoc rationalisation for entering it in 'Sentinel'.

Statistics
Place: 35 out of 128
Avg (all users): 5.7742
Avg (commenters): 7.6842
Avg (participants): 5.8065
Avg (non-participants): 5.7419
Views since voting: 911
Views during voting: 265
Votes: 124
Comments: 32
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/07/2011 05:24:18 PM
Congrats on your bling, Paul.
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 02/07/2011 04:12:45 PM
nice job paul, this caught the eye of every member of the OOBie committee and was an easy choice for the Sentinel OOBie.
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 02/07/2011 12:53:46 PM
i didn't get the title. now i do. glad i gave it an 8, would have given a 9 had i taken more time to understand the title. very well done.
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 02/07/2011 12:21:54 PM
Originally posted by bspurgeon:
Originally posted by NiallOTuama:
Don't suppose you could tell me what the title's about, could you? :)


Three souls separated by time and space, with one thing in common.

I can see where it came from now, but simply couldn't earlier when I was voting. I feel bad for giving you the 6 now rather than the 7. Technically still above the shots average though :)
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 02/07/2011 12:17:26 PM
Originally posted by NiallOTuama:
Don't suppose you could tell me what the title's about, could you? :)


Three souls separated by time and space, with one thing in common.
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 02/07/2011 08:49:08 AM
love the title. tnunsaid it best.
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 02/07/2011 06:14:37 AM
Don't suppose you could tell me what the title's about, could you? :)
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 02/07/2011 03:27:18 AM
Great comments. High end wickedness is spot on.
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 02/07/2011 01:21:50 AM
Clever. One of my favourites in the challenge.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/06/2011 11:01:22 PM
Love the black and white tones. I like how you've used the reflection to make it look as tho the people are actually staring at the object.
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 02/06/2011 10:28:07 PM
high end wickedness
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 02/06/2011 08:34:03 PM
Looks like an Arabic title, maybe Turkish coffee? Great concept, although a little phallic (it's me not you lol). I like the idea of the sentinel as the secondary subject (and I get the clever title, too). 8
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 02/06/2011 07:45:22 PM
So many levels to the image. Great. In my top three of the challenge. 10
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 02/06/2011 03:39:14 PM
nixterish, rather phallic 8
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 02/06/2011 01:43:43 PM
Works very well - but does give me a rather base chuckle, especially with the word delicious repeated across the scene and the elderly couple gazing in apparent contemplation, separated by a small, but important distance!
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 02/06/2011 01:03:35 PM
Ingenious and well executed.
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 02/05/2011 01:36:28 PM
Nice title to
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 02/04/2011 06:06:12 AM
So much depth to this shot. Not sure about the title though... sorta making me want to give it a 6 rather than 7.
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 02/03/2011 09:01:39 AM
That's wonderful!
and nice tittle...
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 02/02/2011 02:37:56 PM
Sentinel phallus? Love the title...have a sneaky suspicion whose this is..we'll see!
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 02/01/2011 11:18:20 PM
your title shows you understand the photo

This goes into my Posthumous Art Gallery

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 02/01/2011 09:23:11 PM
Gorgeus light.
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 02/01/2011 11:51:58 AM
Excellent stuff.
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 01/31/2011 06:40:40 PM
nice DOF, i like the reflective play
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 01/31/2011 05:43:45 PM
terrific!
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 01/31/2011 12:23:38 PM
Grasping for the challenge connection - otherwise I am very much enjoying this image. Very very much.
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 01/31/2011 12:07:40 PM
LOL! Pardon my mentioning it... but it looks phallic to me! LOL! Looks like a LevT image... Well done. (not voting)
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 01/31/2011 11:58:37 AM
I'm giving you a 10 solely for the title! 10.
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 01/31/2011 11:17:12 AM
Nice image and reflection.
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 01/31/2011 11:11:05 AM
Very nice tones. Good luck!
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 01/31/2011 12:29:32 AM
I love the picture and the conversion, but I have to think it's in the wrong challenge. I'm gonna 6 ya, but mainly on what I'm looking for in this challenge and not the quality of the photo. 6
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 01/31/2011 12:07:42 AM
So artfully seen. Nice job. Probably too esoteric for the DPC masses, but I really appreciate it.
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