A bit of a shoehorn, maybe...I am an addict with that submit button.
Extreme crop on this one...
Ground titled on purpose.
With the extreme crop and shooting at 5.6, the main subject did not come out as sharp. Oh well. Guessing 4.2 material.
Post challenge comments:
Oops oh well. Not not starting the year off well. Need to remember one of my goals. Quit entering every stinkin challenge.
A couple quick remarks. Yes it is a measing distance device. However that is where the dreaming comes in. Like every child maybe this is something more than a ranger and his measuring device. Yearning to be a clown. The tilt I included because I felt it added to the whole clowniness of the shot. Peobably not a good move. If advanced I would zoomed out a bit then would have tilted more and then burned out the two lines to black. Though overall not a good photo
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám as adapted by Edward Fitzgerald
This probably gets my OOBIE vote because I'm such a sucker (sic) for all the essence-of-clown that infuses the picture. The grain, the lack of uprightness and/or direction, the unicycle that isn't - there's a mood of melancholy tedium which, of itself, is antithesis to photography in general let alone dpc, but it's so up front and total with the emotion that it does it just as the classic clown does it. And if none of that was within a mile of your thoughts or intentions then hey, you got lucky, so make with a big clown smile.
You have a great sense of humor and I as a dolt gave you a 3. Darn it. Once the moving hand has writ no something or other will ever bring it back... I came back to atone for my sins and appreciate the photo.
Damn! Not only do you branch out and take over the brown ribbon industry, you rap out two superbly sensitive shots while you do it. This gives you licence to put on your Pierrot Lunaire costume and sit in the corner with steams of fake tears gushing out of your eyes.
Without having trawled through all the entries, the expected thing would be the obvious clown icon thing - several steps and a ten foot pole removed from the essence of clownerism, i.e. naked emotional naïveté.
Now tell me I can't talk out of my (epithet removed due to orthographic inconsistency).
Oh, the tilted horizon isn't soooo bad. Or it wouldn't be with a little crop off the top. But the guy ... isn't he wheeling one of those distance-measuring things, not a unicycle? On the other hand, that just adds even more to his needing to dream.
Anyway, Jayson, buck up! It's a whole new week. :)
Congratulations on your brown. 38 ones is impressive. Of course if you enter a shot that has nothing to do with the challenge and has a tilted horizon, you are pretty well guaranteed a ribbon.
How can you say that it has nothing to do with the challenge? A man about to get on a unicycle and the title "dreams of clownhood"...I think its a BRILLIANT take on the challenge! Much better than all the ugly pictures of clown statues:P Good job man, I gave you an 8:P..maybe a bit generous, but I just liked the idea so much hehe...
Congratulations on your brown. 38 ones is impressive. Of course if you enter a shot that has nothing to do with the challenge and has a tilted horizon, you are pretty well guaranteed a ribbon.
Wow, another brown. You go, dude. Actually, this is pretty funny with the potential uni-cycle and all. The gull did a nice job posing for you. Nice tilted horizon too :D
I get the connection, but just a bit too far out of the box to make a strong case - not saying dnmc because it isnt, it just isnt far enough into the challenge, plus although the image is ok compositionally it just looks unimpressive. Noise, tilt and drab colour scheme adds to that.
Just trying to be helpful on an image i didnt score to well.
Where's that shoehorn when you really need it? I think that is a measuring device he is using. Maybe it does not strike me as fitting the challenge because I know what the device is?
I see what you did here. LOL I wish you'd straightened out the ground and cropped the distant shore altogether. I like the play of the gull against the ranger with the pedometer. Very nice.
Dreams of clownhood? Not sure I see that, unless you are aiming for a link with a unicycle in which case I think it's just a bit too much of a stretch. Horizon could do with being straigtened and the focus isn't quite there.
think he's have a hard time riding that :) also the tilt of the photo is distracting either rotating about a degree CCW or cropping out the land at the top would help
Not working for me; that's one of those distance-measuring devices being used by a Park Service ranger-type. If it looked like he was giving any consideration to balancing on it I'd buy into it but he looks pretty expressionless from this angle. As an image (apart from the challenge) it's OK. A little noisy, composition is OK; wish the bird was watching him or something to add a little more interest.
At first I thought it was a unicycle, but it looks like a distance measuring wheel. Maybe he's thinking clown, but the picture doesn't tell me that. Plus it's very obviously crooked, he's too close to the bottom and 95% of the picture is flat water. On the good side, you have the buoy and the guy nearly on the thirds intersections. Sorry, I can't justify a high score.
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