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November Photo Competition - Free

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She looks like Alan Gilzean
This month's theme is "Free"

I won't post a dictionary definition as there are more definitions than you can shake a stick at. So you decide what it means to you.

Entries:

* It is encouraged that people enter new photos
* Up to 3 pictures allowed per person
* Post up the link, not the picture
* All entries must be in by Friday 30th November
* Only use pictures you photographed yourself
* If you edit the picture then tell us what you did
* Please don’t change pictures once you have entered them
* Have fun

Voting:

* Starts on Saturday 1st December and ends on Monday 3rd December.
* Anyone can vote, you don't have to have entered.
* Vote for your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites. 1st choice is worth 3 points, 2nd choice is worth 2 points and 3rd choice is worth 1 point.
* The entry with the most points wins and chooses the next theme.

Thumbs are here:

http://www.extracrispy.co.uk/gallery2/v/u75photocomp/2007-11/
 
Right lets ave another go cos I had fun last month.

Well its Nov and the theme is free. Soo I've gone with free being a release.

In this insatnce a release of sound, energy and light.
Firework


Well it is November so it had to be something to do with them :D

Its unedited and the background could be seen by some as a bit of a mess, but I like the lights from the flats through the smoke etc.
 
not very new I'm afraid but my first entry in a while Lurking in the Dark, taken at an anti war demo in London a few years ago. Kettled in on Park Lane we were getting restless, I jumped a barrier and found this lot looking at me.
 
hiccup said:
Free, hmmmm, innerestin...

The thumbs be here

My camera has got a couple of hairs stuck under the lens :(
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Seems to be happing to us all mine was steeming up in the cold.. but a nice mate works at jessops (it's only a job) used his influance and resolved it for me in a blind panic what the fuck etc my hart pounding.. all resolved..
 
besgreyling said:
Thank YOU! So come on, where is your entry???? :D
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Working on it. Spent all day today in a park or two near the apartment trying to get something. May have one, maybe even two - but am getting tired of my usual photos (people) so been trying to find something else - yet I continually find myself back there, looking at faces and trying to capture their essence, so ... not too successful a day ito trying something new. Luckily we have three or so more weeks.
 
After the Trial

This woman helped destroy a US military plan at Shannon Airport in 2003. The first two trials against her collapsed, and finally in 2006 a jury found her and her fellow activists not-guilty. This is a picture taken just as she left the court, finally free.

edited to add: its been grayscaled
 
sovietpop said:
After the Trial

This woman helped destroy a US military plan at Shannon Airport in 2003. The first two trials against her collapsed, and finally in 2006 a jury found her and her fellow activists not-guilty. This is a picture taken just as she left the court, finally free.

edited to add: its been grayscaled
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Her expression really demostrates relief, nice capture.
 
Thanks. I know her quite well, she's a fairly serious person and its hard to catch her smiling, so on the day of her trial I was determined I would get a picture of her with a smile (and thankfully the not-guilty verdict helped).
 
sovietpop said:
After the Trial

This woman helped destroy a US military plan at Shannon Airport in 2003. The first two trials against her collapsed, and finally in 2006 a jury found her and her fellow activists not-guilty. This is a picture taken just as she left the court, finally free.

edited to add: its been grayscaled
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Now Sovietpop, that, I have to say, is a great capture - a story in a milli-second. She does look relieved, indeed. Even had you not told us the story, Free / Relieve radiates from her face. Whether it being received on the cell or told to someone on the cell. And well done on getting that smile! Judging from your photo, and the basic, honest personality you captured, she does seem like a lovely lady.

This really is what I like about portraits - unlike what I think Stanley E sometimes suggests on here (sorry Stanley, i do not want to be nor seem to be argumentative). One does not not need a canvass of a background to find a story. There is so much more to read into a single, simple, small face ... a whole person and years of living. Again, well done.
 
Looking at that thumbnail page there are about 3 pictures that actually fit the theme, and all the rest seem to be attempts at shoe-horning a recent photo into the competition :D
 
kropotkin said:
Looking at that thumbnail page there are about 3 pictures that actually fit the theme, and all the rest seem to be attempts at shoe-horning a recent photo into the competition :D
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To you, that is. Just more proof of how amazingly complex and different we all are. Isn't it wonderful how mankind's inners work. There are currently 17 photos on the Thumbnail page. You see 3 fitting the theme, I see 14, thus 3 NOT fitting.

And as Big Eejit said introducing this theme,

I won't post a dictionary definition as there are more definitions than you can shake a stick at. So you decide what it means to you".

Come on Kropotkin ..... :rolleyes:
 
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