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Challenge: Music II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Olympus PEN E-P2
Lens: Olympus 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 M.Zuiko Digital ED
Location: Taiwan
Date: Feb 14, 2012
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2012

 Empty seed pod halves, from a Delonix Regia tree, arranged on a black stone walking path. When these pods are complete and still have seeds they make great rattles. I saw some of these on the ground, thought they were interesting and had potential for a music theme. I tried to create a feeling of rhythm through repeating patters. For me, this image is lively like jazz and resembles piano keyboards. It also has the feeling of folk art.

after challenge:

This is my first entry in a while and it's encouraging to say the least. Some great comments and my first Posthumous blue to boot!

Statistics
Place: 32 out of 84
Avg (all users): 5.6849
Avg (commenters): 8.1818
Avg (participants): 5.8600
Avg (non-participants): 5.5938
Views since voting: 905
Views during voting: 281
Votes: 146
Comments: 21
Favorites: 4 (view)

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 02/20/2012 08:00:38 PM
How can anyone miss this brilliant score? It's a Broadway musical; a symphony, a cacophony, angels laughing. Seriously. Congrats on the blue.
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 02/20/2012 04:43:18 PM
A very well deserved blue - congratulations! This should be printed on canvas, large. Great textures, depth, and yes, rhythm.
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 02/20/2012 04:36:19 PM
When I saw this one I thought of the typical improvisational devices of jazz music. Repetition with variations, entering and leaving phrases not from the start but from the end and backwards, or somewhere in the middle, shortening and dilating the same phrase. Which is big part of the concept of exploration in so many genres. Django Reinhardt used to play the same note in sequences for whole measures, each note different as for dynamic and timbre, a one note melody.
With this image, I feel, you have illustrated the main points of a improvisation theory text book, in one frame and 1/60 of second.
Postprocessing is really good indeed, I was hoping that would help score-wise, but perhaps it doesn't matter.

Thanks for that, these are hard to come by, here and elsewhere.
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 02/20/2012 06:40:51 AM
10 from me. Keep them coming!
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 02/20/2012 12:32:32 AM
Beautiful shot.
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 02/19/2012 10:24:40 PM
Wow, congrats on the PH blue with your first entry! A beautiful image, conveying music so nicely.
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 02/19/2012 07:21:13 PM
Congrats on the PH blue. Well deserved. Look at the number of 10's you received. Excellent image.
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 02/19/2012 07:03:36 PM
argh! This should have placed WAY higher!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/19/2012 01:31:18 PM
ah, such harmony.

Posthumous Blue Ribbon

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 02/19/2012 07:48:13 AM
Nicely done
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 02/17/2012 09:32:42 PM
Not only brilliant, but I like it.
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 02/16/2012 03:05:25 PM
It took a minute to "get" this one and when I did, it was WONDERFUL.
I hope you are not punished by those who don't get it.
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 02/16/2012 08:47:17 AM
I am not sure this communicates music to me or even what it is. However, I find the image fascinating. Nice job.
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 02/14/2012 03:39:43 AM
Yes! Such a melody.
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 02/13/2012 05:59:34 PM
this is in my top 2. terrific image, and works extremely well for the challenge. both as a "music score" and as a set of improvisations on the theme. And it's a great BW image in its own right
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 02/13/2012 02:48:16 PM
Interesting idea and processing. The repetition of the same idea in several overlapping variations.
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 02/13/2012 08:44:35 AM
Like reading Beethoven's concerto. Bumping up high.
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 02/13/2012 07:04:32 AM
gorgeous tones - i can see the music here
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 02/13/2012 03:29:51 AM
i like the suggestion of piano keys, but with so many its over done
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 02/13/2012 03:22:53 AM
I feel like there is something here that I'm not getting. Interesting shot, though.
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 02/12/2012 08:11:24 PM
And rhythm. Love it
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