My wife and I brought a mountain bike and our rocking chair as well as a ladder out across the farmers field. I hung the chair and the mountain bike in the tree.(as far as I know, the two are not related) I was a little nervous hanging the items on the branch as this tree is dead and has been for sometime. I was worried that the branch would snap and I along with bike rocking chair and ladder would come crashing to the ground ... now that would be a shot :)
I am the model in the shot. I bought the top hat and coat at our local second hand store. The coat is really nice ($19.00 Canadian) I will be wearing it out this winter.
Hope this does well
Coley
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What a great week I just had ... 52 10's wow
Thanks to everyone who voted and commented on this shot :)
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This is awesome !
I never figured that hanging a couple of things in an old tree
would have such a great effect. :)
Thanks for all the great comments and thanks to everyone who has taken this shot as a favorite. What a blast!
I love this site !
Coley
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Place: 1 out of 134 Avg (all users): 7.7701 Avg (commenters): 9.2632 Avg (participants): 7.2295 Avg (non-participants): 8.0619 Views since voting: 29973 Views during voting: 661 Votes: 174 Comments: 143 Favorites: 180 (view)
just looking through your scores (yeah, sat night for me). anyhow, you haven't scored under a 6 since feb of 2008. to me that's amazing. and this shot --- i probably already commented on it --- is astonishing.
edit: oh -- and 161 faves -- wow.
162... if i haven't already added it...
Very surreal and Dali-esque in presentation of unrelated items occuping the same space. I love how the gentleman in the black suit and top hat is poised in a perplexed stance like he just did a double take and has now stopped to look. His poise just speaks to me of, "Huh. Well, will you look at that". Wonderfully creative and the sepia tone is perfect for it gives it an aged old time feel.
Technical: Focus, and depth of field are excellent. Brightness and contrast are very well done. I think making this picture black and white put you over the top. I have a hard time imagining this picture looking as good in color.
Reaction: Perhaps this picture says unreal more than unrelated. The coat and hat adds to the whole matter here. The feel reminds me of something out of the 60's maybe around the time of the Beatles. I could see this as an album cover for some phychedelic music. It has a very British look and feel to it, though from your bio I believe you are in Canada. Commonwealth eh?
Though playing the game how are these two alike, you sit on both. I find the whole much more than the sum of the parts.
Everything worked here. The frame created by the tree, the angle of the chair, the costume, the bicycle, all of it.
Pretty much a perfect picture. I'm kind of sad it will be leaving the home page after just a week, since I quite enjoy coming back to look at it. (Nice bike, too!)
aww - I was wondering if this might be you when I scrolled through during voting! biggest of congrats to you and your wife on the blue, awesome score, and all those 10's! even the sky was cooperating - it had to be a winner!!! way to go!!!
Congratulations on another blue and personal best score. That is quite an achievement, especially considering what you've already accomplished.
Unlike most images these days, the technicals didn't win it for you. What did it is nailing the challenge theme perfectly yet adding supporting elements that nailed the theme as well. You hit the voter twice in one image.
Reviewers could easily identify your two unrelated items, the chair and bicycle. Suspending them in the air was a stroke of genius. It immediate drew attention to them AND added a supporting element of unrelatedness at the same time. Striking the John Steed "Avengers" pose further directed attention to your two main elements and added a second element of supporting unrelatedness. For those remembering that was a quirky show. That fit perfectly, hence a score of 7.7!
Great pic but I'm one of those who found there to be more than the "two and only two objects in the picture" thus it doesn't meet the challenge rules. I think it has to do with the model holding an umbrella and his positioning which draws your attention to him (object #1) and then you see the bike (object 2) and the chair (object 3) so it didn't fit the challenge as stated.
But, give credit where credit is due and I will certainly say again that this is a fantastic photo.
Its a DPC Fact. Coley is the master of props in trees! Amazing shot and score my friend. Wow, congratulations on an amazing blue ribbon shot and new PB.
That's just outstanding! I'm SO glad there was no serious "more than two objects" backlash; this is such an excellent image, and WHAT a score histogram! Nearly twice as many 10's as any other score. Congratulations!
This was a challenge I couldn't bear to vote on. So if I had come to this one, I'd see it is a superb surrealistic photo, but does it meet the challenge as set? I guess so, and the result speaks for itself. Congratulations. Will promptly add to faves. ;>þ
I can not express just how happy I am that this image by illustrious photographer Coley has captured the Blue Ribbon. The thread about those counting objects because the challenge called for only two objects worried me. In that thread I even posted about the age old employment of artist planting an observer to relate to the viewer.
Well, this image is so grand and such an artistic study with even a tree! All I can say is congratulations first to Coley and then to you all wise voters.
I'm confused by the comments that missed the two objects... yes there are other objects here, but only TWO are unrelated and the main focal point of the photo...
Surely there's that tree again ;-) Rene Magritte style this time. Great entertaining creativity. Nice tint too. 10. (That must be steel fishing line you're using these days!)
First thought was 1,2,3, DNMC - but I won't vote it too low, because at second sight I see a man watching two unrelated objects. Very clever idea, excellently executed. Only thing bothering me is the unusual aspect ratio, had left a little more space at right side. 8
Has the dnmc police visited this image? Well, this is by far the very best image in this challenge. The main objects are the bike and rocking chair. The well attired gentlemen is like the counter ego of the onlooker, so while prominent, he does not count for he is my eyes. The tree serves to support the main object. Bumping to TEN to offset the object counters and those that fail to see beauty both in composition and execution. Somehow, this reminds me of a Coley image. If not please take it as a compliment. 10
ok, for me is the better. 2 object+ 1 man(but perhaps is a woman....)+ 1 tree.......the tree is background but the man is SUBJECT with the chair and the cycle.....(2 objects and 1 subject?)10! great the composition and the tones. :)
"You're traveling to another dimension. A dimension of time and space. A dimension of sight and mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance. You've just crossed over into.. 'The Twilite Zone' "
Excellent shot :) Quite perplexing, not too often does one come across a floating rocking chair & mountain bike.
I guess you get a lot of comments complaining about the "exactly two objects" in the challenge description. But I think your photo fits the challenge very well, because your main subject are only two objects. Congrats on this funny and technically perfect shot and thanks for sharing! Please write some words about the "how to" into the details. I'm sure the objects are strapped to the tree, but somehow it doesn't look like that. Very clever ;-)
this is very cool. while i usually love B&W, i think this photo would have been more impactful if there was color in the sky. i am still very impressed, 10.
I'm a bit confused: "Gather exactly two objects..." I see some more here. So I don't know what relation you want to show. Anyway: your shot is great! Lighting and composition are excellent.
Quite Perplexing
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