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Le cygne
Le cygne
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Location: Lake Ohrid, Macedonia
Date: Oct 23, 2010
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Nov 5, 2010

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 Le cygne, or The Swan, is the thirteenth movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Le cygne illustrates the fleeting nature of beauty with its interpretation of the legend of the "swan song": A popular (albeit erroneous) belief among the ancient Greeks and Romans, who regarded the swan as the most beautiful of animals, was that the Mute Swan is silent until its final moments of life, during which it sings the most beautiful of all birdsongs.

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 11/06/2010 12:17:37 PM
This has an artist's rendering look to it. Like maybe acrylic paint. :)
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 11/05/2010 10:06:35 PM
good job....to me quite abstrast
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 11/05/2010 09:44:17 PM
Love the tones of the rocks under water, that would make a brilliant background overlay (and does here. The swan makes a great colour contrast
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 11/05/2010 08:39:00 PM
Pretty in an offbeat, dark way. Like from a fairytale without the happy ending.
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