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Challenge: Personification (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D1H
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: Oct 6, 2005
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 3 seconds
Galleries: Still Life, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Oct 6, 2005

 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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Nikon Coolpix 4100
 10/18/2005 02:41:12 PM
It's not personification if the stone was carved to look like a human. Good pic of the memorial though.
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Konica Minolta DiMAGE X50
 10/18/2005 02:36:44 AM
cool. this statue has such an attitude. i've never visited it, but i really want to. if there was any way to maybe get more light in the picture i think that it might've turned out to be a bit more interesting. however, good job!
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-100mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
 10/17/2005 07:14:08 PM
Great Idea!
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 10/16/2005 05:44:05 PM
Statues and figurines did not meet the challenge in my opinion.
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Nikon D3100
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm 1:35-4.5G ED
 10/16/2005 04:29:59 PM
Sorry, I see this sculpture as being a personification by the sculptor, not the photographer. Good angle to shoot from, though!
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Panasonic DMC-FZ5
 10/16/2005 10:46:35 AM
The lighting and contrast is great, but I don't see how to truly fits the theme. To me, he is still human despite being a statue. So I wouldn't consider it personification to my own standards.
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Nikon D70s
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6G ED
 10/16/2005 10:23:51 AM
Interesting interpretation. Nice angle.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro M.Zuiko Digital ED
 10/15/2005 08:32:19 PM
It's a statue with human attributes...? The photo is very nice - looks like something you would see on a postcard or in a textbook...just not getting the connection here to the challenge. Sorry. Good luck with your entry.
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6D ED
 10/15/2005 11:17:39 AM
This is a great picture, but IMO it does not meet the challenge "Take a photo of something non-human-looking but yet still shows human characteristics or evokes a human feeling." This is definitely human looking.
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Minolta DiMAGE EX 1500 Zoom
 10/15/2005 07:00:01 AM
Idea lacks imagination-been done many times before. Needs to be much sharper. A very good attempt though
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Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 10/13/2005 10:37:14 AM
Looks more like a snapshot to me, but that's what it is: just me :)
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 10/13/2005 01:11:59 AM
Personaly I don't feel that statues fit the challenge. A powerful angle though.
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Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 10/12/2005 08:07:24 PM
nice pic but doesn't comply with contest rules "...non-human-looking but yet still shows human characteristics..."
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Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro Super for Canon
 10/12/2005 12:15:13 PM
statue of a human subject, does not meet challange
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2005 10:32:04 AM
Does not meet the challenge, rules state: "Take a photo of something non-human-looking"
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Canon
 10/12/2005 10:06:43 AM
non human looking?
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