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JacquiDComment by posthumous: greetings from the Critique Club
I can tell by your title that you are interested in the symbolic meaning of this image. With a tight crop, you were able to create a simple image that conveys your title well. The rust of the chain contrasts nicely with the blurred green of the background.
I wasn't as crazy about the slight tilt. It makes the picture seem slightly off-center and "relaxed," detracting from the symbolic value and reminding us that after all this is just a picture of some chain links. I would recommend techniques to help the viewer forget that this is a photograph, and slip in and out of a completely symbolic realm. Certain types of perfection can help achieve this, like symmetry and having the subject fill the corners evenly. You can also experiment with extreme curves and/or levels and other PP techniques.
Still, I gave this a 6. I thought you got your concept across well. The noise didn't bother me at all. If anything, noise is its own kind of perfection, and can help the symbolic feeling. Perhaps more noise is needed.
If you want to appeal to the DPC voters, then abandon the symbolic realm and create photographs of things that are clearly things and represent nothing beyond themselves except for a little sentimental nonsense. Destroy all the noise and have your subjects exist in complete devastating silence, laid out like a patient etherised upon a table.
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