DPChallenge: A Digital Photography Contest You are not logged in. (log in or register) 
 
Challenge Entries

 
You are viewing 1st place.
2nd
Portfolio Images
This image is not part of a public portfolio.
Endless Summer
1st PlaceEndless Summer
CNovack


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: New Happiness (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Outdoors
Date: Jul 10, 2013
Aperture: 6.3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Abstract, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Jul 10, 2013

 466157.jpg

[Jul. 12th, 2013 04:20:45 PM]

This was a lucky find while out doing errands. The bold lines and bright color were a match to Angus McDonald's captures of bright colors.

The bright and bold colors attracted my attention immediately. But how does it make a connection to keeping a bright outlook in bleak poverty? Admitingly, many will not follow why I submitted by the visual cues of the picture alone unless I explain what made me think of this as a slightly different take of New Happiness.

It made me think of the movie Endless Summer where two drifters travel across the globe to look for the perfect wave to surf. That, in turn made me think of Kalaupapa on Moloka'i.

The book Moloka'i has the main character Rachel Kalama take up surfing as a temporary escape from her disease. Surfing made her forget and feel alive. Kalaupapa was a place of exile for Hansen's disease (also known as leprosy) patients. It was a horrible place of suffering and death until Father Damien and Mother Marianne Cope brought attention to the poor living conditions. Father Damien made major improvements including building homes, churches and coffins and arranging for medical services and funding from Honolulu.

I remember reading more about the history where some residents took up surfing. It was their Endless Summer to search for New Happiness upon the blue waters and golden sun bringing light & warmth- It was a way to forget their disease and feel alive and free.

Kalaupapa History

Statistics
Place: 1 out of 80
Avg (all users): 6.7111
Avg (commenters): 7.8000
Avg (participants): 6.7143
Avg (non-participants): 6.7073
Views since voting: 2145
Views during voting: 183
Votes: 90
Comments: 31
Favorites: 6 (view)

Please log in or register to add your comments!

AuthorThread
 07/20/2013 10:25:50 PM
Congratulations on the blue.
What an amzing background story - very disturbing of course, but very powerful to go with your image. Thanks for writing it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/20/2013 02:39:58 PM
Congratulations, Chrystyne - a wonderful image for the blue. I enjoyed reading your thought process but didn't really need it to give a high score to this wonderful find, perfectly photographed and presented. WTG!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2013 06:48:38 AM
Congratulations,a fine image for the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2013 04:52:42 AM
Congrats on the blue!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2013 04:19:22 AM
Look at you!!! Congrats on the Blue!!! Well done....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2013 04:12:07 AM
Congrats on the blue; thanks for the story too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2013 01:22:17 AM
Oh Wow! Chrystyne! You bloody beauty! Congratulations on your exceedingly well deserved Blue. As you know, I've only been popping in and out lately, so it is a treat to see this on the front page on one of my visits. Yay!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2013 12:33:34 AM
This was my top-pick. Congrats on the Blue!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2013 08:36:39 PM
Awesome color, congrats.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2013 08:31:28 PM
It's certainly clean and precise :-) Congrats on your blue!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2013 08:26:30 PM
Congratulations! This was a standout.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2013 08:05:16 PM
Excellent - congratulations! A very cheerful and pleasing composition indeed!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2013 08:01:54 PM
Well done, should of bumped this one, but you didn't need it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/18/2013 06:18:26 PM
Excellent colors - Happiness!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2013 06:04:08 PM
great graphic with opposing lines and colors.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2013 03:36:14 PM
Two patterns really nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/17/2013 10:48:43 PM
Stunning (and happy looking) arrangement of colour. Equal top.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/17/2013 09:57:24 AM
Top 6 and another that gets me for its clean, graphic appeal and bright color pop. Well seen and framed. 9 Voted earlier, back to comment.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2013 12:33:42 PM
Great image (lovely colours and shapes, both in horizontal and vertical direction), very DMC!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/14/2013 05:57:28 PM
Fits challenge to a tee!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/14/2013 12:35:41 AM
Awesome!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/13/2013 11:07:45 PM
Yes, everything is fresh, even the paint.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/13/2013 05:19:26 PM
Very different - I was almost tempted to score this lower, because it's decidedly different from the entire point of "New Happiness" (to show happiness in poverty, and these are clearly not from the impoverished!)

With that being said - this is an insanely striking photograph. You would have gotten one of my rare 10's if only those boards weren't tilted wonky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2013 07:14:43 PM
Overall I like the color and composition of this image. It appears that symmetry was part of your image capture, so if I may, I see two things that I would have tried to fix by moving the (skis?(Endless Summer surfboards like the movie?). One, the middle ski could have been shifted to the right a little. Two, the one on the right seems to be just a little higher than the one on the left and definitely higher than the one in the middle. Would have been a little better if they were all the same height or maybe just the outer two were the same height, or maybe even stair stepped. I would like to have seen them all the same height myself.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2013 03:44:19 PM
Crisp, clean, sharp and great colors. Great image for this challenge!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2013 10:29:30 AM
This definitely shows the colors of summer.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2013 06:44:50 AM
Great original take on the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2013 06:12:31 AM
Very nicely done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2013 05:15:27 AM
Did a walk through. This is my favorite. Good Luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2013 12:19:35 AM
Perfect.. This is just stunning. Perfect new happines and who would not have this during an endless summer. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/11/2013 09:51:10 PM
This would be awesome on the wall of a beach cafe!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


Home - Challenges - Community - League - Photos - Cameras - Lenses - Learn - Help - Terms of Use - Privacy - Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 04/06/2025 03:34:59 AM EDT.