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Challenge: Circle (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: Jul 5, 2005
Galleries: Abstract, Urban
Date Uploaded: Jul 5, 2005

 Detail from graffiti found in a Haight Street doorway in San Francisco. Cropped image a bit, adjusted the brightness a bit. While circles abound in this photo, I wanted to focus on that central eye...how it just sucks you into each circle as if it were some sort of tripped out vortex. Seems appropriate for Haight Street!
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Literal representations of existing artworks, including your own, are not permitted. Please review the challenge submission rules.

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Olympus E-10
Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
 07/22/2005 02:01:09 PM
This pic I see is intended as social comment, though some what isolated from environmental context, not entirely. I think it is acceptable as much as a sculpture would be acceptable..... I think the dq ruling as literal representation might apply only if intention to deceive a viewer is absolutely pronounced and demonstrated. Not so on this foto. The beauty of graffiti is the tenacity - that it keeps getting reborn even after being erased, covered, painted over and DQ'd.....
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Pentax K20D
Tokina AF 28-80mm f/2.8 AT-X 280AF Pro for Pentax
 07/06/2005 09:13:46 AM
I see the circles, but I don't think they are the real focal point of the object.
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 07/06/2005 02:59:42 AM
It may be graffiti, I think this is too close to a simple, literal representation of a work of art.
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