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Challenge: Shallow DOF III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Nikon
Location: My Livingroom
Date: Jan 30, 2007
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Abstract, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jan 30, 2007

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Come back to me, Gongyla, here tonight,
You, my rose, with your Lydian lyre.
There hovers forever around you delight:
A beauty desired.

Even your garment plunders my eyes.
I am enchanted: I who once
Complained to the Cyprus-born goddess,
Whom I now beseech

Never to let this lose me grace
But rather bring you back to me:
Amongst all mortal women the one
I most wish to see.

-- Sappho

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Sappho was a Greek lyrical poetry, an aristocrat born between 630 and 612 B.C.E. She married a rich merchant and had a daughter named Cleis. She spent most of her life pursueing the arts on the island of Lesbos, a seventh century B.C.E. Greek cultural center.

Rich women from all over the Meditteranean sent their daughters to Lesbos to study under Sappho. Saphho wrote lyrical poetry (accompanied by lyre music that she also wrote) expressing her love for her female students.

Sappho was one of the first poets to switch from writing from the view of the deities and muses to writing in first person, expressing her own feelings. She was so influential that the high Greek lyrical meter is now called sapphic meter.

The city-state of Lesbos minted coins with her image. Plato, the famous Athenian philosopher, placed Saphho among the divine Muses. Solon, the famous Athenian lawyer, is said to have asked to be taught to play one of her songs “because I want to lern it and die.”

She was briefly exiled to Sicily because of her family’s political activities. The people of Syracuse were so honored by her visit that they erected a statue of her.

The modern words lesbian and sapphic to describe female homosexuality are derived from the influence of her work.

Most 18th and 19th century lesbian poets cited Sappho as an important influence on their work.

Unfortunately, only one complete poem has survived centuries of Christian and Muslim censorship. Of the original nine volumes, only fragments of a few poems remain.

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Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED
 02/06/2007 10:29:21 PM
this would win for personification too. great shot. wonderful use of color.
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Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 02/03/2007 09:08:49 AM
Love the colors ... the background is great.
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/31/2007 06:12:20 PM
I don't get the title but this is a great shallow DOF shot.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 01/31/2007 03:00:36 PM
Wow, that is some great color. Great focus too. 10, but I really would have like to seen all the stamen in focus :) To shallow, to shallow!
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 01/31/2007 12:27:59 AM
10! Gorgeous color!
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