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Challenge: Reflections Without Mirrors II (Basic Editing III)
Collection: capitol
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: duh - men's bathroom
Date: Oct 14, 2005
Aperture: f 2.0
Shutter: 1/20
Galleries: Humorous, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Oct 14, 2005

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Men's public restroom, 4th floor, state capitol building, Atlanta, GA

I've been meaning to get a picture of those urinals for a while now, but never thought of this angle until today.

Both bathrooms in our office were, uh, occupied, so I headed up to the public bathroom. Some kid was washing his hands after his mom yelled at him for not doing so, but was about to leave without drying them. "You're not gonna dry your hands?" I asked him.

As he complained about using towels instead of an automatic dryer, I noticed the reflection of another bank of sinks in the towel holders. After the kid left, I walked to the other side of them, and saw my urinals -- er, the urinals reflected.

Went back for my camera and took a few shots before anybody walked in on me.

Statistics
Place: 121 out of 371
Avg (all users): 5.4530
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 5.4050
Avg (non-participants): 5.4880
Views since voting: 717
Views during voting: 444
Votes: 287
Comments: 22
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/25/2005 02:05:15 PM
so THAT'S what the inside of a men's room looks like! ; )
like the concept and the b&w.
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 10/25/2005 10:43:46 AM
Good iimage.
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 10/25/2005 04:27:09 AM
good reflection, but a subject that most people aren't interested in looking at
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 10/24/2005 09:27:53 PM
fantastic, i love the way that you not only get reflection, but the distortion as well
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 10/24/2005 01:10:37 PM
I very much like the idea and the subject reflected here, but the composition of this
shot is really bad. This way you got alot of undesired background. Only left 1/2 is
interesting (to me).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/23/2005 02:43:12 PM
This is a creative and clever image. Your contrast is nice, and your DoF is very good for this. Only, now I have to take a quick break... brb.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/22/2005 10:37:10 AM
Looks like a clean latrine!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/21/2005 12:36:34 PM
sweet pic how did you do it?
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 10/21/2005 05:38:22 AM
The B & W was a perfect choice...a nice unique take on the challenge...well done.
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 10/21/2005 05:35:03 AM
that's a pretty cool idea
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/21/2005 01:43:24 AM
I love how gritty and urban it is.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2005 06:21:58 AM
So THAT'S what a mens room looks like!! :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2005 06:11:51 AM
Very original!!! Great capture and the reflections on both dispensers is great! well done. good luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/19/2005 06:25:02 PM
TMI
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/19/2005 05:10:07 PM
Different and well executed!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/19/2005 01:42:00 PM
wait, are those mirrors? Heh, in the thumbnail they sure looked like it. Hope you don't get a lot of thumbnail voting. Nice composition and idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/19/2005 01:27:22 PM
Not tasteful subject matter
 10/19/2005 01:14:19 PM
looks clean there
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/19/2005 11:03:33 AM
Wow. You must have used alot of paper towels to get that
stainless steel that shiny. Interesting subject. I like the way
one dispenser has the urinals and the other the sinks. Great
eye!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/19/2005 12:32:19 AM
Wow, thanks God there was nobody there... Funny!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/18/2005 09:48:26 PM
I like it, it's unique. Bit of a change from the usual water reflection during fall
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 10/18/2005 08:53:52 PM
crop the right side off a bit. very nice image. eight.
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