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• "Down to the Waterline" — Dire Straits • (Homage to Peter Max) •
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Challenge: Rock Song Titles (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Lensbaby 3G
Location: Harwich Port, MA USA
Date: Mar 28, 2009
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Mar 28, 2009

 Oh, geeze, I know I'm gonna get hammered. I just all of a sudden got to feeling all Peter Max-y. and wanted to do something of an homage to his brand of psychedelia, which of course I grew up in the thick of, so shoot me..

This is Karma at the beach with a lensbaby. She's been Topazed within an inch of her life, then all sorts of color/contrast shifting/inverting has been done in CS3 as well. Don't blame me, it's 'shrooms I tell you, 'shrooms!

And let's not forget the delicious irony of a Certified Hearing Dog flacking for a rock band, people :-)

Peace & Love, brothers & sisters!

Statistics
Place: 166 out of 175
Avg (all users): 4.5789
Avg (commenters): 6.3158
Avg (participants): 4.5811
Avg (non-participants): 4.5769
Views since voting: 1327
Views during voting: 307
Votes: 152
Comments: 31
Favorites: 5 (view)

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 09/22/2017 10:43:22 AM
I love it Robert
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 12/10/2010 12:25:23 PM
Total psychedelia. Maybe you have to be in our age bracket to turn on to this. 6 FAVs is a good indication that you have some good company out there.
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 12/09/2010 08:45:09 AM
Still fabulous.
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 02/18/2010 09:25:26 AM
Missed this - well, I didn't look at R ^ R. I just wish I had taken it and known what to do with it.
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 04/17/2009 03:15:32 PM
I love this!!!
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 04/06/2009 02:01:35 PM
She hears the rock and roll for you. If it's a good song, she licks you...
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 04/06/2009 07:49:11 AM
I like the shrooms don't lose them.
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 04/06/2009 06:40:58 AM
I like this!! It would look very nice hanging in my family room! It has a 70's acid trip look that I'm really kind of fond of!
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 04/06/2009 04:29:00 AM
Awesome photo bear! Love it!
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 04/06/2009 01:59:52 AM
I noticed that all the shots at the top end had pretty much bugger all to do with rock&roll, whereas at the other end...

This is a very whole and balanced picture and whacks the challenge right up it psilocybin, innit. Rock on, bear
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/05/2009 06:58:19 PM
Well, I enjoyed it! I'll give you a 10.
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 04/05/2009 04:21:13 PM
I wanna see it under blacklights! ;-)
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 04/04/2009 01:01:56 PM
Toooo much processing
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 04/04/2009 12:43:07 AM
interesting effect and good effort, well done. Interesting to see how it scores, as it is far more heavily, and visibly so, processed than most entries. works for me, though
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 04/03/2009 07:37:03 AM
gak, bear, what are you trippin' on, anyway. :P I actually like the colors, though,
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 04/03/2009 05:13:04 AM
I really like the editing.
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 04/02/2009 04:07:36 PM
Extreme post processing works very well for this song title
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 04/02/2009 02:51:52 PM
Fantastic editing!
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 04/01/2009 06:52:48 PM
works well
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 04/01/2009 03:53:36 PM
this photo is just a bit over processed for my taste but i like the idea
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 04/01/2009 12:57:13 PM
Processing sure makes the image more interesting than it probably was without it.
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 04/01/2009 08:16:14 AM
I'm sorry, but this isn't even a photo anymore. Fun as an illustration for a comic book, but not really something I think is appropriate for DPChallenge.
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 03/31/2009 04:36:38 PM
Very nice treatment - eye catching. Well done!

Coming back to this, I cannot give it a higher vote (none exists) but I can appreciate it more. Something about this shot makes it seem more real than the surrealism of the processing. Very well done and meets the challenge very well.

Straight to Fav's.
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 03/31/2009 11:58:16 AM
Wow this is actualy kind of cool, ive seen people try to do something like this before but I think this hits the nail on the head, i dont know if i like the vest on the dog though
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 03/31/2009 11:06:55 AM
Perfectly and wickedly overprocessed - suits Dire Straits VERY well! (And I'm guessing it's appropriate to say "Hi Karma!", yes?)
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 03/30/2009 11:29:17 AM
Very brave shot! I love it!
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 03/30/2009 08:00:24 AM
I like this, but am afraid most of the voters won't care for the level of processing.
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 03/30/2009 06:41:14 AM
I'm not sure whether to vote 3 or 6. I voted 3 then came back to look again. There's something in it - not sure about photography though. 6 it will be. I am trying to be liberal ;-)
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 03/30/2009 02:09:21 AM
Cool Effect
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 03/30/2009 12:51:39 AM
I like the effect....reminds me of the actual video!
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 03/29/2009 08:18:24 PM
I like the preocessing, most will hate it I imagine. 7
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