Place: 148 out of 181
Avg (all users): 5.0688
Comments: 1
I do not brag about the score I was just curious why people did not get it...
Answer: I figured out that everybody will recognize the Tian'an Men Square (wiki info here) in Beijing which was first built in the 1420s in the Ming Dynasty. The Mao image apparently got the attention and people might thought wow mao is not 100 years thing...
Anyway I would like some feedback knowing that the gate is Tian An Men
i think even though the photo contains something 100 years old, the structure itself is not the focus, rather it is incidental to the portrait and people. The image just does not scream 'old' the way that normal 'lay-voters' would interpret the challenge. Finally, the image itself just is not very compelling. Looking through your work I don't feel bad saying that because you're very obviously capable of outstanding photography! This particular shot just looks like tourists visiting an attraction to me. Hope my candidness is not taken the wrong way!
You are right about the flatness. I guess I got carried away by the nostalgia of being back to Beijing after 14 years, the whole communist party congress that was going on, my teenage in socialist republic of Romania blabla .
What was unthinkable 100 years ago?? I just didn't get that.
It did get a good vote from me though, I think mostly because I liked seeing something a bit different from what the rest of us did for this one. It made some point, though I was not sure what the point was.
For those who think the "subject" was not 100 years old, I offer that observation that Mao was born in 1893, so he actually qualifies under the "age rule" anyway...
I liked the shot, btw, I liked the concept of it more thane execution but gave it decent score for being out of the box.
