"Characters in Nature" or "Natural Numerology" or "Read Me, Seymour!"...
This past Easter Sunday I was up and out early, camera and tripod in hand, recording snow photos of all kinds in frozen North Dakota. One of the photos I shot is one I've been sitting on until the selection of a contest theme arose once again. I got the idea while processing the image back at home and because I'm always looking for a contest theme that hasn't been used before. I often wonder if many of you feel we're all in a little bit of a rut when it comes to the themes. I do. Some time ago I actually went back through many years of contest history to find that we keep repeating a number of themes and maybe, just maybe, you'd like something different. I'm not entering this photo in a contest because, well, I've already submitted it, and we don't allow that sort of thing, entering a previously submitted image for a contest. It doesn't mean you can't go out looking. Okay, enough blathering; this is the photo I just submitted to my gallery, titled "Figure 8" (as an example), and it appears to me to be either the figure 8 or a capital letter "B"-- it's open to interpretation--but I'm betting you all could find some very cool examples of letters and numbers in all sorts of natural scenes--wide, macro, landscape, inside flowers, the wings of insects, the eyeballs of birds, etc. I know, I know... what about digital and fractal artists? I don't know about them but I do know every image is open to interpretation, as I said just before, and I know that cgi artists and fractalists are creative and inventive people. So... whaddaya think? Too weird or just weird enough?
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Actually, I was mistaken. Tick just sent me a PM to let me know that we had one with this theme back in 2014. I was here on Caedes but wasn't entering contests then. Kudos, Tick! This one is a great example in case the Caedesians choose this as the next theme.
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"An S-curve is a recurving line (often in the shape of an 'S') that leads the viewer through the image. Use the classic S-Curve to compose your image. The curve may be literal or implied."
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I suggested geometrics as a topic. I see geometry on buildings, in nature, fabrics, really everywhere. And it would also work well not only for photographers but fractalists and illustrators as well.
From the submissions it does not appear that many people are following the contest theme; only half of them include a character (it's also possible I just can't see the character in them?). Perhaps it was misunderstood? T'will be a challenge to vote on this one.
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I think that some entrants are using the definition of character as of having particular characteristics rather than character as meaning a symbol. A picture can have character or display a character without being a symbol. I don't actually normally think of a letter or a number as a symbol so I can see how the confusion has arisen. It is too late now to change anything so maybe the contest will have to encompass both meanings which will of course lead to confusion when it comes to voting. I guess not everyone reads these comments and have just read the Subject of the contest and gone from there.
My thanks to all who leave comments for my work and to those of you who like one enough to make it a favourite. To touch just one person that way makes each image worthwhile. . . . . . . . . .. . . . "The question is not what you look at, but what you see" ~ Marcel Proust
This past Easter Sunday I was up and out early, camera and tripod in hand, recording snow photos of all kinds in frozen North Dakota. One of the photos I shot is one I've been sitting on until the selection of a contest theme arose once again. I got the idea while processing the image back at home and because I'm always looking for a contest theme that hasn't been used before. I often wonder if many of you feel we're all in a little bit of a rut when it comes to the themes. I do. Some time ago I actually went back through many years of contest history to find that we keep repeating a number of themes and maybe, just maybe, you'd like something different. I'm not entering this photo in a contest because, well, I've already submitted it, and we don't allow that sort of thing, entering a previously submitted image for a contest. It doesn't mean you can't go out looking. Okay, enough blathering; this is the photo I just submitted to my gallery, titled "Figure 8" (as an example), and it appears to me to be either the figure 8 or a capital letter "B"-- it's open to interpretation--but I'm betting you all could find some very cool examples of letters and numbers in all sorts of natural scenes--wide, macro, landscape, inside flowers, the wings of insects, the eyeballs of birds, etc. I know, I know... what about digital and fractal artists? I don't know about them but I do know every image is open to interpretation, as I said just before, and I know that cgi artists and fractalists are creative and inventive people. So... whaddaya think? Too weird or just weird enough?
-Nik