ENTRY Thread DSS Mega-Challenge #7 (Illustrating Text)

Llywellyn · March 8, 2010

Are you ready?!?!?! :barb Welcome to the seventh Dgrin Sharp Shooters Mega-Challenge!

This contest will run from Monday, March 8, 8:00am EST (GMT -5) on through Monday, March 22, 8:00am EDT (GMT -4).

Your theme ready for wide open interpretation: Illustrating Text: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," by W.B. Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

Your awesome and gracious judges are:
Lord Vetinari
schmoo
ziggy53
ian408
Llywellyn

The contest is open to the following eligible photographers ONLY:

anonymouscuban<o:p></o:p>
bf2015<o:p></o:p>
cmurph<o:p></o:p>
Coldclimb<o:p></o:p>
CWSkopec<o:p></o:p>
davev<o:p></o:p>
divamum<o:p></o:p>
DsrtVW
Froch
JAG
JeffGroves<o:p></o:p>
johnloguk<o:p></o:p>
JordanLynn<o:p></o:p>
jwear<o:p></o:p>
KevXman<o:p></o:p>
Kim H<o:p></o:p>
learnin<o:p></o:p>
lilmomma<o:p></o:p>
lizzard_nyc
MarkR<o:p></o:p>
michswiss<o:p></o:p>
MrsCue<o:p></o:p>
nightpixels<o:p></o:p>
photo-bug<o:p></o:p>
sherstone<o:p></o:p>
Steve Wiencek<o:p></o:p>
Swelldays<o:p></o:p>
Tewmom<o:p></o:p>
tinamarie52<o:p></o:p>
trevor<o:p></o:p>
Tylwydd<o:p></o:p>
Velvet-Art

Click here for the DSS Mega-Challenge #7 ENTRY GALLERY

Remember, 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest period.
Please read the DGrin Sharp Shooters Challenge Rules.
All official stuff (entry thread link, etc.) are here.

richtersl · March 8, 2010

Oh, this is awesome! I'm bummed I can't take part, but it sure will be fun watching all the entries go up.

divamum · March 8, 2010

Oh WOW!!! And, amazingly, these two weeks are less frantic than the past two months have been (well, relatively speaking) so fingers crossed I'll have the time to do something!

::scuttles away, wishing she lived in the Lake District or west coast of Ireland, but determined to think outside the box::

Llywellyn · March 8, 2010

Some may have noticed a very prominent theme for these two rounds. I simply could not resist the indulgence.

divamum · March 8, 2010

Llywellyn wrote:

Some may have noticed a very prominent theme for these two rounds. I simply could not resist the indulgence.

Given that I have a daughter named Aisling, how could I not notice!!!????!!!??

(for those that don't know, it's pronounced "Ashling". There ya go. And added bit of Gaelic for the day.)

MarkR · March 8, 2010

One of my favorite Yeats poems (i.e., one of the few that I actually like.)

Great poem, great imagery.

I'm completely out of ideas.

sunflowerstudio · March 8, 2010

I am *so* looking forward to what you guys come up with. These results are going to be absolutely fabulous.

Llywellyn · March 8, 2010

MarkR wrote:

One of my favorite Yeats poems (i.e., one of the few that I actually like.)

Hah, yes, he was an indulgent old fellow with many of his poems (and titles!).

My favorites are "Down by the Salley Gardens," which was too limiting, and "The Wild Swans at Coole," which felt too out of season. (I have a stone from the shores of Coole, where I stood with my English professors one summer and read the poem aloud. One of the many reasons that poem is dear to me.

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At any rate, it was great fun tearing into my old literature books and my collection of Irish authors this weekend to find a passage I felt challenge worthy. "Innisfree" was the first to pop into my head, and I simply kept coming back to it, no matter how much the wit and satire of Wilde and Swift tried to tempt me away (though they succeeded in much distracting me with fun rereading).

I hope it suits for my final mark upon the challenge themes. It's been grand.

michswiss · March 8, 2010

Llywellyn wrote:

I hope it suits for my final mark upon the challenge themes. It's been grand.

Thank you. Thank you, and thank you. I will go to the water in the next two weeks and take an image that reminds me of Ireland. Thank you.

tinamarie52 · March 8, 2010

Oh my! This will be more than a stretch! That's why we call them Challenges!! Llywellyn, with or without yeats, you've left your mark!

chris

davev · March 9, 2010

This would be a great theme in the summer, with the dirty snow and brown scenery around here, I'm not feeling it.
Good luck, I'll probably sit it out.

nightpixels · March 9, 2010

davev wrote:

This would be a great theme in the summer, with the dirty snow and brown scenery around here, I'm not feeling it.
Good luck, I'll probably sit it out.

Yeah, I was also thinking that this might be a bit of an issue for people not living in the warmer areas.

adbsgicom · March 9, 2010

Sometimes the complete absence of something speaks to that something. Perhaps if you removed the green channel from a 'green-less' image..... I think you've had plenty of creative images that you don't need a big splotch of grass to make it happen... Remember St. Patty's day is nearing...

Llywellyn · March 9, 2010

There's more imagery than just warm-weather stuff in there.

We still have dirty snow banks here, too.

adbsgicom · March 9, 2010

adbsgicom wrote:

Sometimes the complete absence of something speaks to that something. Perhaps if you removed the green channel from a 'green-less' image..... I think you've had plenty of creative images that you don't need a big splotch of grass to make it happen... Remember St. Patty's day is nearing...

Partly ignore my reply. I was thinking this was in the DSS thread. Still, all the more to challenge you with...

divamum · March 10, 2010

Ok, I missed what may be the one sunny window we'll get, yesterday. Whoops.....

coldclimb · March 11, 2010

nightpixels wrote:

Yeah, I was also thinking that this might be a bit of an issue for people not living in the warmer areas.

I dunno, I'm at a loss for how I can make Thailand look like Ireland!

michswiss · March 12, 2010

coldclimb wrote:

I dunno, I'm at a loss for how I can make Thailand look like Ireland!

You guys are such sandbaggers!

travelways · March 12, 2010

coldclimb wrote:

I dunno, I'm at a loss for how I can make Thailand look like Ireland!

I'm too trying to have a big open mind and find the sense of the poem in Mexico

JAG · March 13, 2010

Being Ak with 5 ft of snow on the ground and below 0 temps...this is going to have to stretch everyones imagination with my entry...lol

MarkR · March 13, 2010

JAG wrote:

Being Ak with 5 ft of snow on the ground and below 0 temps...this is going to have to stretch everyones imagination with my entry...lol

I think that's why it's called a MEGA challenge

, he said, eyeing the brown and yellow tundra of his backyard.

DsrtVW · March 13, 2010

No I have creative whiplash, not realizing if I place in the last challenge put me into this one. I have been thinking green instead of chasing Yeats

MarkR · March 14, 2010

DsrtVW wrote:

No I have creative whiplash, not realizing if I place in the last challenge put me into this one. I have been thinking green instead of chasing Yeats

Well, at least there's some overlap ...

divamum · March 15, 2010

Waaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I seriously don't know if I'm going to get anything together here. This week is, apparently, DM's Week of Photographic Insanity. I did 6 of the 20 (yes you read that right) headshot sessions I'm doing at the college (for next to no money) yesterday and hit technical troubles, meaning about half of what I shot is tossers, and the rest need WAY more processing than I usually do for proofs just to make them presentable. I've been at it for nearly 10hrs today. Wednesday night is a concert shoot, and next Sunday is the 2nd batch of headshots, only 7 kids this time.

And I haven't even had time to THINK about Inisfree!! I'm bummed. I really REALLY have been looking forward to doing another megachallenge, and haven't had so much as a free braincell to go and play around with it.

All this not so much to whine (ok, so I'm whining) but to say... if I don't manage to put together an entry in time, it won't be out of laziness!!!!!!!!!

Ok, back to editing. Eyes. Bugging. Out.

JAG · March 17, 2010

I am silent but not out of it yet....thinking thinking thinking....

Llywellyn · March 17, 2010

If you're looking to find that hint of Ireland, there's no better day than today. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

travelways · March 17, 2010

Llywellyn wrote:

If you're looking to find that hint of Ireland, there's no better day than today. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Cheers from Mexico with a shot of tequila!

Froch · March 18, 2010

Rough schedule DM. But think of it this way. The entire chaos of your week, speaks to the poem.

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Good luck!

JAG · March 19, 2010

can someone please tell me how to get the url to the exif (I know how to get the url) into the title line written as EXIF1 .I can do it on a post like this one because of the tools but havent figured out how to do it in the gallery.

sherstone · March 19, 2010

JAG wrote:

can someone please tell me how to get the url to the exif (I know how to get the url) into the title line written as EXIF1 .I can do it on a post like this one because of the tools but havent figured out how to do it in the gallery.

If you click edit on my entry caption, you can see the code I used, just replace the URL info and you should be good to go. If that doesn't help I can give you a more descriptive answer when I get home later tonight

JAG · March 19, 2010

sherstone wrote:

If you click edit on my entry caption, you can see the code I used, just replace the URL info and you should be good to go. If that doesn't help I can give you a more descriptive answer when I get home later tonight

thanks sean I will give it a try...

EDIT....
worked like a charm. Thanks Sean. Now I will have to keep this code on a notepad for future use.

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