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"Pity the planet, all joy gone / from this sweet, volcanic cone..."
"Pity the planet, all joy gone / from this sweet, volcanic cone..."
Bear_Music


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Challenge: Darkness (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5700
Location: Harwich Port, MA, USA
Date: Jun 13, 2005
Aperture: f:6.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 sec
Date Uploaded: Jun 13, 2005

 Shot of porch light and staunless steel shade

levels, selective color, curves (inverted central portion in curves), neat image, usm, resize, border, save for web

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When I think about "what darkness means to me", I think about the bleak future of our planet, the shadow of nuclear holocaust and the shameless rape of the environment, and I think of the following from Robert Lowell, which I tried to put into imagery:

Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet, volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heels of small
war, unto the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime.

Statistics
Place: 251 out of 373
Avg (all users): 4.6211
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 4.3926
Avg (non-participants): 4.7861
Views since voting: 1310
Views during voting: 475
Votes: 322
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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Nikon D70
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 06/22/2005 03:29:02 PM
Great photo and way underrated.

I am amazed by the disparity between the average score of the commenters compared with the other voters as well as the disparity between the no-camera voters and the camera voters.

Again, great photo and it should be higher than the 31 percentile.

JV
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Minolta DiMAGE 7
 06/21/2005 10:04:58 PM
The enigmatic nature of this shot alone makes it a worthy challenge top ten finisher as far as I am concerned. I love a good abstract .... and this is a great one. The combination of ellispe, crescent and round shapes work so well in combination. Throw in a dash of warm color and the dark intrigue; this becomes a winner!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 06/21/2005 01:46:09 PM
ceiling lamp.
I like it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 06/19/2005 05:40:26 PM
Great composition!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSLR-A550
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 06/17/2005 06:37:55 AM
creative and well done 10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 06/17/2005 03:19:15 AM
Don't know what this is but I like it
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF 22-55mm f/4.0-5.6 USM
 06/16/2005 10:22:31 PM
weird shot but unique and poetic. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon PowerShot S3 IS
 06/16/2005 03:51:13 PM
Fantastic design statement. Love the luminescence on the ball.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus PEN-F
Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko
06/15/2005 02:15:54 AM
Well, you're not likely to be Robert Lowell. Robert Ward, perhaps? Whatever, this is a clever idea, and worthy of the quotation in a witty and metaphoric kind of way. Can't decide if the insects add or diminish, so it's probably add. 8
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Sony DSC-W1
 06/15/2005 12:44:37 AM
lightbulb?
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