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Challenge: Mystery Word Triptych (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Los Angeles
Date: Jul 19, 2012
Galleries: Black and White, Street
Date Uploaded: Jul 19, 2012

 angeles / angels

A simple look at classism and racism, if the desire to see it is there. The negative space is an implied swastika that evolved as I arranged, and trimmed, the images. The bottom image is uncropped.

The properly classed folks in South Orange County would never have a one stop shop for divorce, tax, and sweet 16 parties. The energy of the foreground man captivated my attention, as did the worry and agitation of the second man. I see a pair of family men with the laundry list on that window running through their head. How do they care and provide for their Angels? Do I care? I hope so, because I know it's easier for me.

The survivor. Drugs. Gang life. Profiling. Past indiscretions of the LAPD. Cliche for moviegoers who don't recognize the reality, and for those of us who don't live it. Cliche for the young, potentially privileged, woman waltzing in to the scene. That is not a fair presumption, I don't know her story, but it's implied. They both need their Angels, even if it is a social surrogate to get them off the street.

Pushed in to a corner, by choice, a barbed wire fence looming over her head. Certainly not the Angel her mother described in stories when she was a child. She sits and sells, sending money back home, providing something for her own Angels, wondering when she will see the other side of the fence again. I doubt she wants to, but I'm sure she dreams of it.

Los Angeles. City of Angels.

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Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 07/27/2012 03:13:59 PM
Excellent work Ben.
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Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+
Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA
 07/27/2012 10:10:29 AM
Well done Ben, a cool trio indeed.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 07/27/2012 04:49:57 AM
I love this for many, many reasons... Bruce Springsteen? Fantastic.
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Fujifilm X-T5
Fujifilm XF 35mm f/1.4
 07/27/2012 12:05:12 AM
Angels! My favorite of the bunch

Message edited by author 2012-07-27 00:05:28.
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Samsung Galaxy S25, S25+, S25 Ultra
Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH
07/26/2012 11:54:03 PM
Lost
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 07/26/2012 11:49:35 PM
urban

looks almost like shoot from the hip kind of stuff
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 07/26/2012 10:56:30 PM
The only word I have for this is: blue.


Posthumous Blue Ribbon

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Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM
 07/26/2012 08:58:33 PM
divorce
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Canon EOS R5 Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/26/2012 12:37:40 PM
angeles?
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Fujifilm X30
Custom Made Pinhole
 07/26/2012 10:28:45 AM
See
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Canon EOS R5 Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/25/2012 11:28:37 AM
You have created one of the most compelling sequences I have seen around here for a long time. Each of the images make me long to zoom out and see a little bit more of the picture - a notion excelled by that image at the bottom.

The fact that there is a word tying this all together is a bonus I am deprived of at the moment, but I am hopeful to decipher it later in the week.

ETA: giving up on the mystery word, though I feel that I could be enlightened by simply zooming out on that task too.

Thank you.
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Sony SLT-A33
Sony DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM
07/24/2012 01:07:17 PM
Mexico?

Interesting view on life.
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro MF
 07/24/2012 08:49:32 AM
'communication'
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 07/22/2012 02:37:14 PM
your hint is "the"???

"the separation"?
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/22/2012 12:46:36 PM
Divorce?
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 07/21/2012 10:22:01 PM
Watcher, I think.
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OM System OM-5
Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko
07/21/2012 09:10:21 PM
los... palabros? ... works for the first two anyway.

LOS ANGELES??? I think I got it this time! watching out for lost angels.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8D
 07/21/2012 11:48:48 AM
Oh oh. Don't speak Spanish. I think this is serious. What is the word for "disappeared" or maybe "divorced"?
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 07/21/2012 10:58:17 AM
CITY
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Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
 07/21/2012 12:52:47 AM
Street?
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/20/2012 09:00:58 PM
Lonely? Lost?
'The'
City?
No clue...
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 07/20/2012 06:48:55 PM
The images don't seem to "flow" in this triptych, although I like all three of them.

It seems "disjointed"...



(commenting only)
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Apple iPhone 15 Pro
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 07/20/2012 11:56:34 AM
I like the mystery here.
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Sony Alpha a7R V
Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM
 07/20/2012 11:14:03 AM
sorry... no idea
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Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
07/20/2012 08:52:21 AM
Bruce Springsteen - any number of his songs. Thanks. 10
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Nikon D750
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon
 07/20/2012 01:56:55 AM
No idea of the word...
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Nikon D810
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
 07/20/2012 01:06:53 AM
Cabos
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