"Hands" Theme Rejects--Please Post them here

[Celebration]

Probably will enter a grandson photo after doing a two person poll (friend and daughter), unless the entries fill up in the next twenty four hours or so. I took it about a month ago before the contest was announced. Here are the rejects, one of which was taken after the contest was announced--"Reunion". I kind of like the soft look to it, which is due to the fact that this particular camera has no flash, but the two people I consulted thought it looked out of focus, so, whatever. I kind of like the conch shell player. I had to try hard to get that photo, but it was taken before the contest was announced.

[Mira]

1. Yeah I 'm glad you are doing this post. I hope you get lots of participation. I"m

off now to find one!

In while the editing feature still works:



I took this at the arts school near my house when the Visual Arts teacher asked me to come and help her take photos of the students creating group poses.
I see now I pulled the sharpen slider a bit too much.

[Celebration]

3. oh, this is amazing

and kinda creepy. :thumbsup:

[MissHoneychurch]

2. After I saw all the great entries I decided against this one

[Celebration]

4. the glow on the hand

reminds me of ET!! I like the softness of it, but like I said, people thought my reunion pic was out of focus, but it was that softness that I liked in this case. I have to say that hands is an interesting topic. I'm personally not all that interested in the details of a photo of hands. I mean, I can look at my own hand anytime I want to see a fingerprint or lines or whatever. For me personally, I like hands that are doing something, and just the feeling that accompanies that, if that makes sense. I guess you could say that I sort of like more impressionistic hand photos, rather than realistic. However, I have a feeling that the more realistic ones might win the day in voting.

[MissHoneychurch]

6. The person was holding the hand into the light

that came through the windows at the church. We didn't expect it to have such an effect. I really like this pic. But it is somewhat out of focus and maybe a bit too sensitive for some people (church and everything).

I know what you mean. In the last contest I knew Richard D would win the moment I saw his picture. But most times I can't tell.

[Mira]

5. One more - not creepy - though taken outside a cemetery

I considered this one seriously. My son and grandson said it's not about the hands, it's about the bracelet. So they talked me out of entering it.

[Celebration]

7. gosh I love this one

I thought my conch player was about the headdress so I didn't enter that one. But this one is about the hands! The bracelets just match the fingernails. This has that kind of impressionistic feel that I like without being too soft. This is a very cool photo and is the kind of photo that would appeal to everybody (although I like your entry too).

Maybe we need to stop consulting others, LOL.

[Mz Pip]

8. glassblower

[Celebration]

12. Love blown glass

Using the hands for art--perfect subject.

[Stevenmarc]

9. Best hands at the Met

[Celebration]

13. egads, this guy is distraught

And I love the sole focus on the hands here.

These hands are so expressive! This contest has made me notice how many people talk with their hands, and express themselves with their hands.

[Stevenmarc]

15. Distraught would be an understatement

Ugolino and his Sons

Dante's Divine Comedy has always enjoyed favor in the plastic arts. Ugolino, the character that galvanized peoples' fantasies and fears during the second half of the nineteenth century, appears in Canto 33 of the Inferno. This intensely Romantic sculpture derives from the passage in which Dante describes the imprisonment in 1288 and subsequent death by starvation of the Pisan count Ugolino della Gherardesca and his offspring. Carpeaux depicts the moment when Ugolino, condemned to die of starvation, yields to the temptation to devour his children and grandchildren, who cry out to him.

And thank Lensbaby for the selective focusing.

[Callalily]

10. Actually Celebration . . .

I like your celebration photo!

Here are a few of my rejects







still thinking of entering this one

[handmade34]

11. Callalily...

that last Mother/Child is wonderful, and although the hands are partially hidden, they are a crucial part of the photo... so sweet!

[Celebration]

14. Thanks, Callalily

I love the last one. Mother and child is always a profound image, and this exhibits the hands as being a big part of the imagery.

[Mira]

16. Another one - walking in Las Vegas

I actually laugh every time I see it, but could not come up with a good caption

[Celebration]

17. that's neat!

Sidewalk Stroll (???)

[Mira]

18. Las Vegas Blvd.

on that stretch you can get 50 - 60 business cards for prostitutes of all kinds within 25 steps.
They don't call it Sin City for nothing. That woman maybe wanted to make sure that he stays right there with her.
I have a photo of the two taken a few seconds before that also includes such a person trying to hand them the cards....

[Celebration]

19. that sounds like the name!!

Perfect!

You had lots of great choices.

[Mira]

20. Somebody stop me before I post again -

I keep finding them

[Mira]

21. Nobody stopped me - and I just had another one scroll by

When my computer is idle, I have it set so "my pictures" scrolls at random. Things roll by that I have forgotten about. This is one of them.
Now that I look at it, if it were a little sharper, I'd swap it into the contest. It was taken as I was in Washington for a protest, and is a woman/baby in line in front of Dennis K's office.

[alfredo]

22. Fly swatter