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Of hammered gold and gold enamelling -- To keep a drowsy Emperor awake
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling -- To keep a drowsy Emperor awake
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Challenge: Sailing to Byzantium (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2014 Challenges
Date: Sep 4, 2014
Date Uploaded: Sep 4, 2014

[Sep. 11th, 2014 08:36:03 PM]

Still playing with lighting.

I really wanted to do a coat on a stick. I was thinking about multiple coats on multiple sticks. Then I was thinking about a coat on a stick with a schooner sailing away in the background (there is a schooner out in Yorktown that does sunset cruises.)

Last day of challenge. My husband had been in Scotland without me for 8 days. He owed me a nice date. We talked about dinner and a photo shoot down my the schooner...

Great dinner idea!! The Melting Pot!!

4 course fondue dinner:
Cheese fondue appetizer (with two different types of bread, broccoli, cauliflower, apples, carrots)

Salad

Main course: orange marinated duck, filet, teriyaki steak, chicken, lobster tail, fondued in a Coq Au Vin broth.

Dessert - dark chocolate fondue with Baileys, strawberries, pound cake, rice crispies, bananas, cheesecake.

All small portions of each that you fondue at your table.

Definitely no time to do melting pot and get to the schooner on time.

Skip the schooner!! It's just a challenge. Melting pot only came around once before in 10 years!!

Kelly!! Oh play producer friend of mine! Do we have any crowns and kingly robes? Of course we do! Ummm... everything's locked up.

I collect birds for our Christmas tree. One gold, sparkly bird -- check!

Party City -- one cheap crown bought

One Ph.D. robe that my husband already owns.

We're set!!

Thanks for the comments. :)

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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 09/12/2014 11:09:19 AM
You just crack me up. How fortunate your live-in model WILL pose for you :)
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 09/10/2014 11:29:03 PM
Beautifully crafted and well suited to the theme. I can see that some thought went into this. One of my ribbon choices.
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Apple iPhone 5s
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
 09/10/2014 05:21:32 PM
A really good interpretation of the poem.
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Sony Alpha a6400
Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VXD
 09/05/2014 02:03:09 PM
Nicely set up and executed, good literal way to represent one of the verses.
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 09/05/2014 11:47:54 AM
This has made one of my tops and I hope it gets good scores.

I really like the creativity on this and not one is like this and I was expecting to see a lot of dress up play kind of things like this.. I like that little gold bird on his hand and that makes the picture for me, makes him look like he is watching the moon from a window, the darkness goes up against the crown and his outfit very nicely.
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 09/05/2014 11:01:18 AM
Nicely done. I'd be surprised if this doesn't make top 5 !
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Nikon D5000
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G
09/05/2014 10:13:15 AM
Nice idea and really fits the challenge.
Well done.
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