Re: Challenge nº 148- Remember
Bo, great theme and really great interesting and perceptive comments as always. Thank you, I am astonished to have crept onto the podium with my effort, because it didn't come out at all as planned and I'd had exactly the concerns about it that you brought out. I did look at cutting out the background, both by 'growing' the hedge and cropping down, but in the end left it in because I wanted to give a 'memorial as part of the community' feel (or maybe that was a convenient excuse and I was being lazy!). So about the vignette... I had started out processing this as I did a previous one, to make it look like a sketch, but this time I wanted it to look 'unfinished' around the edges, with the colour fading to some mono sketch lines then to paper. But I just couldn't get it to look right and I preferred the 'real' poppies to the 'drawn' so I let them come through and I think I rather lost the concept and ended up trying to make the best of a bad job just to get an entry in. Hey ho.
But congratulations to Chris and Peter for their genuinely excellent and well deserving images. I've never heard that mnemonic, it is excellent (should you ever need to know pi when chatting down the pub).
Looking forward to see what Chris challenges us with.
Bo, great theme and really great interesting and perceptive comments as always. Thank you, I am astonished to have crept onto the podium with my effort, because it didn't come out at all as planned and I'd had exactly the concerns about it that you brought out. I did look at cutting out the background, both by 'growing' the hedge and cropping down, but in the end left it in because I wanted to give a 'memorial as part of the community' feel (or maybe that was a convenient excuse and I was being lazy!). So about the vignette... I had started out processing this as I did a previous one, to make it look like a sketch, but this time I wanted it to look 'unfinished' around the edges, with the colour fading to some mono sketch lines then to paper. But I just couldn't get it to look right and I preferred the 'real' poppies to the 'drawn' so I let them come through and I think I rather lost the concept and ended up trying to make the best of a bad job just to get an entry in. Hey ho.
But congratulations to Chris and Peter for their genuinely excellent and well deserving images. I've never heard that mnemonic, it is excellent (should you ever need to know pi when chatting down the pub).
Looking forward to see what Chris challenges us with.
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