***COMMENT THREAD FOR MARCH CONTEST***

[Schema Thing]

Please post your comments for the March Photography Contest in this thread.



Submissions to the theme "Beautiful Decay" should be posted HERE

[Schema Thing]

1. Beautiful start to the contest from WannaJumpMyScooter!

[Mira]

2. It is simply luminous.

That's the beauty part. I surely see the rot.
Very auspicious beginning!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. thanks... you never know how things

will go in General Population though

[Xipe Totec]

29. At first, I thought it was a closeup of fallen grapes

I have a vine in my back yard and very fine rye grass, so the rye grass and grapes there, match the apples and grass in your photo.

There is so much light flowing through the fruit, that it seemed impossible that they could be as large as apples.

Nice work!

[JeffR]

3. Just pulled up the submission thread

and I'm wondering if there's any point in submitting! The two entries up so far are extraordinarily rich. These two photos could end up going neck and neck.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. wabi sabi winner post

for those who want to reference it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=280&topic_id=61964&mesg_id=61964

[Mira]

4. WHOA.....however one spells that

the entries are blazingly hot already.
Maybe I will not bother either (just read JeffR's comment) but really I will.

Hippywife says she does not do this to win.
I think she has a great line, but I do it to win, if at all possible.
LOL

Alfredo, the photo is phenomenal, and so is the title.
Gutsy, cerebral, different.

But then, there are the others already there....
and those to come.

:)

[JeffR]

5. I have a recent shot I'd decided to enter.

And I will, despite knowing already it won't go anywhere with the photos already entered as competition. Having won wabi-sabi five months ago, I have to lumber out of my stupor and have another go at this. Decay is irresistible as a theme. It's not always beautiful, but when it is, it really is.

[Mira]

6. WOW - I wake up and find such a strong field. Each one of these could completely

walk away with the top prize.

I don't know, if you bring such beautiful presents, you might drive some folks away. Then we won't have enough photos, and I traipse over to the lounge and find new blood.

Which reminds me, Buehler, you are doing great!

[alfredo]

8. JeffR, the colors blow me away. Nice eye there HappyCynic

Love the colors and the frog's eye view.

edited to fix mispeling.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Not much decaying going on up here this time of year.

Everything is frozen solid. :)

I'll be sitting this one out. We leave for Nome Monday, and I still have a lot of work to do on the photos I took last weekend, so I need to stay focused on the task at hand. I look forward to all of your entries. There is so much talent here ... and you're such nice people, too. :hug:

When we're out west, I'm going to try to think of every possible topic that might arise in the next few months and get a shot of it from a Nome perspective. I'm really looking forward to this trip and the change of scenery.

[alfredo]

10. Enjoy your trip.

[Mira]

11. You will be solidly missed. Be careful, have fun,

check in with us, and don't forget to vote.

[Mira]

12. RichardD - you chose one I remember and really like.

I've been very busy in one way, and very wasteful of time in another. But I'm clearing space, and chose a canvas.
I will paint that photo of yours, and look forward to doing it. It is a solid plan.

(I hope to get there before I go for a short trip to Costa Rica, from where I will return with more stuff to ponder)

[Richard D]

13. Thank you!

Costa Rica will be amazing. Such a beautiful place. I've only been to the airport in transit, but just being there was magical.
I can't wait to see the pictures you'll take.

[Celebration]

18. Can't wait to see your Costa Rica pictures!

Oh, and I want to go to Costa Rica too!! Honestly, I could go off into nature and just be happy snapping pictures all day long.

[alfredo]

14. Cassandra, that plant looks familiar.

[Cassandra]

15. Do you know what it is?

Or have I posted this shot before? I try to remember in the spring and summer to walk by it and see what it looks like then but I forget.
It's a neck-high shrub, BTW.

[alfredo]

16. It looked like a dried up "hemp" leaf.

[Cassandra]

19. It's in the very narrow yard...

of a UU church. The school door is 5 feet away. The Universalists must be more liberal than I thought. ;-)

[alfredo]

20. They can close their church for three months each year because

they are the only ones God trusts to be out of his sight for three months.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Beautiful photos! :^)

[Xipe Totec]

22. Watery Grave is amazing!

I can actually imagine a body formed by the orange leaves under the surface. The face, center top, is tilted slightly right and up, while the eyes look down and left. Mouth agape. Arms straight down. Large hands.

Amazing image!

[Mz Pip]

23. I had to go back

and look at it again, and you're right. It does kind of look like a body. The branches under the water sort of look like bones.

This is why I love these contests. It's always interesting to read how people other than the photographer "see" the image. We each can bring our own interpretations and aesthetic to the piece.

[Xipe Totec]

24. Can you spot the face?

It looks like the face in the painting "The Scream"

[Mz Pip]

25. I see it now.

I must unconsiously have channeled my inner Edvard Munch when I took that picture.

[wovenpaint]

26. A Fragile Moment

I love these contests and this is a favorite theme of mine...everyone's photo entries are all so beautiful!
With all this amazing talent, sometimes I get nervous hitting the "post" button-but,as an artist, I hit it anyway, lol.
I saw this on my shed door one morning last fall...the light was so beautiful, so I ran in to get my camera. By the time I got back-to my dismay-the light had changed a bit, so I quickly took a few photos.
Good thing I did, because the leaf fell to the ground a short time later...

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Talk about in the nick of time!

[Mira]

28. I'm in awe of the beauty you captured. It instantly became

on of my top favorites!

[Mz Pip]

30. It reminds me

of the O Henry story, "The Last Leaf."

But, lo! after the beating rain and fierce gusts of wind that had endured through the livelong night, there yet stood out against the brick wall one ivy leaf. It was the last one on the vine. Still dark green near its stem, with its serrated edges tinted with the yellow of dissolution and decay, it hung bravely from the branch some twenty feet above the ground.

[icymist]

31. Old Chevy Truck

I wanted to enter something with the season. I took this picture right after discovering this contest so this is decay that's happening right now, this Spring, today. I'm new at posting photos on the web and I only have my imageshack account and still don't know how to get rid of the little color cube on the lower left.

[Mira]

32. Go with the flow of the discovery of how much fun we have here.

It's a really nice shot, and I will go back and look at that little color cube I DID NOT NOTICE.

No matter how you do, enjoy the journey, and afterwards hang with us and give us a chance, we are a lot of fun, and try to teach each other stuff.

:)

[Celebration]

34. very impressive first entry!

I love old car photos, and yours is particularly cool looking. :thumbsup:

And, oh, I didn't see a color cube (???)

Stick around and you'll have a ball here.

[tekisui]

33. Robb--I love One Owner.

As someone who has ALWAYS been the Last Owner, I can appreciate the beautiful decay of our mechanical friends.

[regnaD kciN]

35. Did you put that up just to tweak Ralph Nader...?

;-)

(Old Corvair owner here, too.)

[Robb]

43. LOL

You caught me. :D

[Xipe Totec]

36. Death Grip

A candid shot taken along the Gale River path in the White Mountains last year. Five "knees" come out of the ground and wrap around a fallen tree. It looked to me like a hand coming out of the ground to claim a fallen one.

[Schema Thing]

40. It's very surreal.

really grabs your attention, pardon the pun.

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. Lobstah. It's what's not for dinnah.

One of the kiddo's shots from last summer.

Not sure how non-New Englanders react to it but I and other Mainers of a certain age feel nostalgic when looking at it. Nowadays it's all wire traps out there.

[Xipe Totec]

38. I understand the sentiment, and feel for you

Lobstahs in wire cages? Not even if they wah chicks!

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. *has images of caged go-go dancer lobsters doing their thing to the B52's "Rock Lobster"*

:rofl:

[Celebration]

39. I looked back through these

Every single one looks like a strong entry. I would have no idea who to vote for. There is very little difference between my very favorite shot and my least favorite shot, in the whole group. I never remember feeling that way in past contests.

What happened? :shrug:

[Richard D]

41. What happened?

At least for me, I'm learning a lot here!

[hippywife]

44. Husband has been a DUer for much longer than I have

and has very few posts. He mostly reads the big forums and get mad. LOL

Anyway, he's been out taking decay pics. We'll see if he found something good enough to enter.

All the pics in the submission thread so far are really interesting and really great. :hi:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

45. 5X... love reclimation

good shot

[5X]

46. Thanks.

There are lots of good photographs this time, much more than just
"pictures".

[hippywife]

47. Yep. That's him.

That's my hubs. Talked him into getting in on the fun. :hi:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

48. I kind of suspected that

somehow

[hippywife]

49. He is a man of few words...

unlike his wife. :rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

50. Autumn's End is gorgeous

I love how the leaves seem to be dripping through the screen.

Marking the passing of the season.

Reminiscent of Dali's clocks.

[Mz Pip]

51. that is some headboard!

Might take a while to get used to sleeping under that. I think I'd have nightmares the first few nights. :scared:

[Celebration]

52. never mind

I love them all.

[GreenPartyVoter]

53. Stalled out at 29?

[Sheepshank]

54. Wow gang

some of those are simply amazing!!! I have at least 17 personal favorites :) The others are so close as to be a negligble 2nd place....how does one chose. Seriously, I learn so much from you all and am very grateful to be here and trying hard to participate when I can.

[GreenPartyVoter]

55. Yeah, beautiful pictures as always. :^)