I knew this was dangerous to enter. It looks really neat on my computer at home, but ipads and monitors with even slightly different calibration - it's probably way too dark. Which is too bad. I printed and it's still really neat imho.
I also realize that while for me this was truly inspired by jjbeguin, it did not end being in his style. But since the challenge was 'inspired by' I felt it was okay to enter. I felt like jjbeguin's style often played around with darkness and realness with a bit of grit in there - and that is what I went for. This dark however, was definitely much darker than the striking dark/lights in jjbeguins images.
My first brown ribbon. Huh.
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This is awesome on my home monitor in the evening. I cannot, however, see anything at all on my phone's screen, so there's probably a huge difference in how people could see this. It's a gorgeous photograph! I am so happy it printed well, too. Hopefully you have it hanging somewhere you see it often!
And that's why I called the challenge "inspired by". I'm glad you entered it the way you liked it best - how else would one explore the darkest impulses :-). Goes along with jj's drive, I believe.
I really liked this, so to find it in last place is a surprise. I see the cat but then my monitor is calibrated, I guess a lot are not and have missed out on a great shot.
Uh-oh! I think the image is probably wonderful, but so many people's monitors are very different. Mine is calibrated with my professional lab, so it is a little darker than most... so all I see is black. When I looked and looked, I did see a faint outline of a cat but it really wasn't visible without straining to see it.
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