I've entered a photo contest worth $1,000 for first prize. The criteria was to just choose your favorite photo you've ever taken, and since I used to spend hours a day during dark room photography in high school I thought I was cut out for this challenge.
Please go and vote for my photo! If I win there's a good chance I'll take you out to lunch sometime. ; )
Here's the description from the contest page, but do click on the link as well to get a full sized view:
This is a B&W 35mm darkroom print which was developed without using image manipulation handiwork or digital editing. Nobody has ever successfully guessed the subject content and I've never told anyone what it is either. This is my favorite photograph of mine because of its strangely satisfying composition, fine clarity which reveals detailed texture, and the mystery which emanates from it despite that clarity and the high quality of development. I have often described this piece as a photographic riddle to the many challengers who have tried to solve it. Various guesses have included scattered books, a twisted bed frame, pieces of sandpaper, a wooden shavings, and a broken accordion.
Don't forget that just clicking on the link won't vote for it. You have to find the vote button on the new page that opens when you click on my photo from this entry.
I'm truly proud of this photo and I consider it one of the greatest pieces of art I've ever made. I wouldn't have asked for your help unless I thought I truly deserve to win, so please go and vote for me comrades!
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UPDATE: Thanks to your help my photo has skyrockets from about 4400th place to about 90th place in just one day. Now the hard part begins since I've blown past the majority of really mediocre entries. Some of the photos placed above me are damned good and may deserve their slots, but some of them are honestly just boring Facebook photos of someone's best friend making out at a party with a compete stranger. I don't think that candid's like that have any place in a photo contest, and they especially don't deserve to win just because the entrant has 1,000+ Facebook friends! Please help to send me to the top by voting for my entry, and while you're at it look at some of the other photos in my current place range since some of them are truly quite impressive.
Comments (15)
voted :] and if i had to guess it looks like your standing under a statue or some structure haha!
Great photo. I don't know what it is either. I like it though. Let me give you a guess anyway. How about an arial shot of the ramps in a skate park?
a lamp turned upside down with papers scattered around?
i just voted for your photograph and rec'd your post. i want to guess and i say it's a microscope.
Thanks for the support everyone! More unique guesses but so far no dice...
Voted
it looks like a colonoscopy. am i right ?
You've got my vote. Good luck for it!
I voted... No clue what it is!! Will you tell us what the bloody hell it is after winnin
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Voted and rec'd. Good luck! :)
I tried using your blog tags to help me put the pieces together, but to no avail.
I got nothin' lol.
When will you tell us what it is?
voted!
I hope you don't tell what it is because I feel like it'll take away from the photo. I mean, I want to know but not knowing is part of what makes the photo so intriguing.
Tell me what it is or I won't vote!
Voted. Good luck.
You've got a good blog going here... some really great and unique posts / topics. Hope all is going well.