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Undying Hope
Undying Hope
ggbudge


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Hope (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Vivitar ViviCam 3765
Location: Gaffney, SC - on my front porch.
Date: Aug 22, 2004
Aperture: f2.9
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/64
Galleries: Abstract, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Aug 23, 2004

 While playing around with a party torch trying to capture the flame, I noticed I could capture the smoke too. After looking them over, I noticed what appeared to be the ghostly image of a Civil
War soldier in the smoke.

Editing: cropped, greyscale, levels, sharpened and resized

Statistics
Place: 283 out of 285
Avg (all users): 3.2578
Avg (commenters): 3.5556
Avg (participants): 2.9385
Avg (non-participants): 3.5223
Views since voting: 1241
Views during voting: 420
Votes: 287
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/01/2004 12:53:05 AM
WOW! Thanks for the 9 and 10 vote! :D

Here's the Unedited Version - Caution: it's 1.6MB

For those of you who didn't see the ghostly image, if you look about a quarter of the way down from the top in the center, there appears to be an eye. If you follow the image from there, you should see the face of a man.

The man appears to be wearing the uniform of a US Civil War Soldier.

I titled it Undying Hope because the "ghost" in the photo is still searching for something. That, to me, shows Hope.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/31/2004 11:27:19 PM
I am clueless and I have too many pictures yet to go.

3 from me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/31/2004 08:44:19 PM
Nice smoke. Hope?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/29/2004 09:17:18 PM
um, looks more like "dying from second-hand smoke" than "undying hope"
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/29/2004 05:59:45 PM
I assume this is smoke - and the title implies you can smoke without increasing the chance of dying. I doubt that that hope is a reality. The image itself has some nice pattersn/lines but the tonal range is so slight it becomes un-interesting quickly.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/29/2004 08:25:48 AM
Maybe I missed something but I just don't make a connection here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/28/2004 01:12:15 AM
I m really struggling to associate this photograph with hope.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/25/2004 09:16:50 PM
erie
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/25/2004 01:57:08 PM
Hate to admit it, but I just don't get it. It there a shape formed in the smoke that I just can't pick out? Very nice abstract, though! 5
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/25/2004 01:03:01 PM
If your camera will allow it, making the image bigger would help. I'd like to see more of the detail here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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