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The only human beeing who lived in harmony
The only human beeing who lived in harmony
Mephisto


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Life III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix F30
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Date: Jan 11, 2009
Galleries: Black and White, Street
Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2009

 ha! got this (snap)shot just on the last day while going for a nice bike ride around a nearby lake, that is frozen due to the ridiculously low temperatures during the last week.
when i came home i thought this shot stood out and edited it before i even thought about entering it in a challenge.
the easiest part was the title: as i was thinking about a fitting title, a song of the band "within temptation" came up and the title came from one line in the lyrics. i instantly thought that would make a good and quite ironic title to the picture, as the man in the foreground speaks a rather depressed and lonesome body language...dnmc votes here i come...:D

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i think i've never had a challenge submission that had more comments from people i greatly admire before!
really appreciate the honest critics and of course the posthumous ribbon!

oh and sorry for the typo in the title, that for itself was, as already mentioned, meant to be ironic. or maybe not. i dunno...

Statistics
Place: 75 out of 200
Avg (all users): 5.8133
Avg (commenters): 7.2857
Avg (participants): 5.6296
Avg (non-participants): 5.9882
Views since voting: 1230
Votes: 166
Comments: 21
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 01/19/2009 03:59:07 PM
PostLuminous Award Nominee!
superbly stark, luminous, textured, layered, and so intriguing: struggle and hope depicted with such subtlety
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 01/19/2009 07:29:14 AM
Such a cool photo, the b&w is a good choice. The lens flare and long shadows add to the sense of desolation, and the hunched figure makes me think of cold.
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 01/19/2009 06:05:34 AM
Absolutely fabulous! I love everything about it. Too bad it was not acknowledged by a better score.

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 01/19/2009 03:39:12 AM
Originally posted by posthumous:
To me, the "typo" made the shot. Everyone else is exhibiting hive behavior except for the only human "beeing" who lived in harmony with the Universe, rather than with other bees. The hive-like hexagon of lens flare bokeh seals the deal.


Tehehe, awesome interpretation! :D
thanks don!
 01/19/2009 03:38:13 AM
The lens flare is great... I think it is very fitting of the challenge in that with four silhouettes you're illustrating different stages of life we go through.
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 01/19/2009 03:18:18 AM
To me, the "typo" made the shot. Everyone else is exhibiting hive behavior except for the only human "beeing" who lived in harmony with the Universe, rather than with other bees. The hive-like hexagon of lens flare bokeh seals the deal.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/17/2009 02:13:51 PM
I liked it more at first glance than I do on reflection; I have the feeling that it looks more consequential than it actually is. I wondered if you were saying that the central, strangely hunched figure finds harmony only in solitude? That works I guess, versus the couple behind, but then what of the other two solo persons further back? If the central figure is the only human beeing (sic) living in harmony, then what are they living in? I couldn't work out what it meant, and concluded that it doesn't mean anything at all. Still in my top five, though ... at least it stimulated a train of thought, even if it took me nowhere.
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 01/17/2009 10:41:48 AM
Very nice
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 01/17/2009 07:48:25 AM
One of my favorites for this challenge. The lens flare is gorgeous. Lovely depth, richness. The different postures - youth, middle age, old age - perfect.
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 01/17/2009 04:46:52 AM
I don't get the 'beeing' meaning. If I ignored the title would I see 'Life'. Hmmm? No, but it's a nice photo and very emotive looking. For me, I'm getting a feeling of depression and I mean that in a good artistic way not literally.
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 01/16/2009 01:53:54 AM
Hmmm. Strangely unbalanced; I'm unconvinced, really. I mean, hell, it's more interesting than the vast majority, but I sense I'm dealing with a stronger eye and vision that deserves a tougher assessment. Somehow, not quite strange enough? Though one has to love the nearest figure, of course.
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 01/15/2009 10:24:54 AM
title really hurts this one. nice capture.
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 01/15/2009 06:37:42 AM
Beautiful scene balanced both compositionally and tone-wise. 9
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 01/14/2009 05:26:17 PM
I hesitated to give this a ribbon because it's almost TOO me, but I can't help myself. There are stories here waiting to be told. There is the oppression of lens flare. There are all those possible paths in all those hopeless directions. There are those people spread out so oddly, like a cold constellation.

I give you my Posthumous Yellow Ribbon

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 01/13/2009 01:52:50 PM
I like the shadows from the figures. I think a single figure would have conveyed lonliness in someway, but this seems only to convey cold. The lens flare is really distracting.
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 01/13/2009 03:35:06 AM
I like this because it's creative and it does make you think "where was this taken". I like the hexagon of light. I don't think that your shot matches your title though - in my opinion if it were my shot I would have focused more on either the couple being in love or more on the main single individual human, in terms of his lonliness.

I like the black and white tones and the lighting.
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 01/12/2009 08:34:57 PM
Very interesting shot. Not terribly fond of the hexagonal flare, but the shadows and textures on the ice are very compelling.
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 01/12/2009 09:35:52 AM
"being", not "beeing" Interesting mood and lighting...
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 01/12/2009 07:19:05 AM
well I spend a lot of time on this photo because I think that it well deserve attention. the black and white is great, the deep blacks, the gray scale and the white of the light on top are well balanced. the composition really work, the deep space between the persons, the long shadow on the foreground are very nice. the exagonal bokeh or better the flare work and is distracting at the same time.
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 01/11/2009 07:12:40 PM
this is an awesome image...love the frame, light, lens flare, shadows, b and w conversion...not sure about the title, but the rest works 8
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 01/11/2009 07:10:26 PM
$%#@!
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