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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2009-09 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Good Stuff
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Long Beach Island, NJ
Date: Sep 24, 2009
Aperture: 8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 800
Galleries: Action, Blur
Date Uploaded: Sep 30, 2009

Oyster shells look like women.

Statistics
Place: 395 out of 400
Avg (all users): 4.3688
Avg (commenters): 1.0000
Avg (participants): 4.2264
Avg (non-participants): 4.8000
Views since voting: 1088
Views during voting: 238
Votes: 141
Comments: 10
Favorites: 1 (view)


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10/15/2011 07:59:42 PM
It's not IMO about seeing or not the lady. I mind the processing just a teeny tiny bit. Somehow harsh.
To me that's a corrida. The head of the toro looks so clearly enraged by the person riding backward in a bubbly mud.
A great scene.
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10/11/2009 06:19:30 AM
Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

"Oyster shells look like women"?

Sorry... I can't see it at all. This is a very different photo, but not surprising coming from our illustrious leader. Oh... I see it now... looked back at it to look for something intelligent to say, and I saw "our lady". Excellent! Unfortunately, I don't think most voters would give this enough time, or enough revisits to see it and perhaps this is part of the reason for the lowish score. I now wish I'd have given it more time, or came back to it during voting... but alas, it's only know I get the true message within your photo. Well done.
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10/09/2009 12:32:45 PM
nice. I'm not sure I'm seeing what you saw, but that's what makes it good, I think.
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10/08/2009 02:56:42 PM
Uh oh. I see a dog face, a very decomposing alert and menacing dog face. But that's just me.
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10/08/2009 09:10:41 AM
crap - i didn't vote from the thumbnail. I didn't see the woman in the full size version. Pretty cool.
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10/08/2009 06:15:51 AM
This is a wonderful image in my opinion. One of my favourites of the challenge. I gave it an 8.
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10/08/2009 01:10:07 AM
&howzsisthis?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/03/2009 01:59:33 PM
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: I'm a little mystified by this image and I'm sure, to an extent, that is your intent. It isn't a pretty image but it does have a degree of fascination which holds our interest as we ponder 'what is that??' Not only is the subject ambiguous but so is the scale and the wider context.

Critical stuff: All of the above! Clearly confusing voters may not be too good for business.

Overall: This isn't an image I'm going to pretend to like but I think I can appreciate some of your intent (I think...)
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10/02/2009 12:33:37 PM
Not sure what's going on here. I've stared at it for a while to see if I'm missing something, but while I can make out some forms it's not anything of interest and I just don't get it!
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10/01/2009 02:53:59 PM
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