***MAY Photo Contest--COMMENTS***

[mnhtnbb]

This is the place to ask questions or comment on the entries. Photographers, please feel free to tell us about your submission: where it was taken (if not evident from your title), how you felt while you were shooting it and what feelings it generates now when you think back about the experience of that day.

Here is a link to the Submissions thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103670036

[Soph0571]

1. I'm in

I love this theme!!

[alfredo]

2. Henry Clay's outhouse? I'm sure he contemplated the state of the nation and

and let go the toils of the day.

[mnhtnbb]

12. You made me laugh, alfredo.

We surely seem to be in a period of time where some people are willing to venerate verbal crap that is regularly spewed from the mouth of certain individuals in power.

But that's not really what I had in mind. In fact, I'm trying to provide an opportunity for the exact opposite. I'd like to see us celebrate our shared humanity and respect for the choices of others in how they care for themselves, their families, and their communities as they nurture their souls.

[alfredo]

19. A bit of levity.

I do have photos of his privy. Maybe the Missouri compromise was conceived there.

I’m still looking for a good subject.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I did have trouble deciding......but settled on the Wayfarer's Chapel.

It combines wonderful architecture with gorgeous scenery and that allowed me to choose it.

[Mira]

4. Just now saw the invitation to tell details about our entries

I consider this a very kind and novel thing for our hostess to do. The photo I chose was taken at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague about a year ago, almost to the week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Jewish_Cemetery,_Prague

My heart cramps remembering what I saw, what I got to photograph, and what I would not be able to convey in just a picture. So I chose the one I did to show a hint of what I felt in this sacred place.
Please do look at the link I'm posting, and if I get a little encouragement I will post a thread with some of my other photos of experiencing this place after the contest is over.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Consider yourself encouraged, my dear Mira!

I read the link you provided and I was greatly moved. I would love to see your other photos that show some of what you experienced there.

[Mira]

6. Thank you

It will happen and I thank you. It’s one of those experiences one chronicles, and then there is no outlet for it. I will dedicate it to you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. You must have an outlet. That makes your experience meaningful.

It's very kind of you to dedicate it to me......thank you for that.

[Richard D]

8. I was there three years ago.

I so understand your feelings.

[mnhtnbb]

11. I'm glad you've posted details about your photo.

I thought that given the theme, it might be interesting for us to put some words to the story that a photo can tell. And that it might also be interesting for the photographers to reveal something about the feelings evoked in them by the subject of their shot.

[mnhtnbb]

9. LOVE all the entries! We need more!

[mnhtnbb]

10. Here's what I would submit if the host could enter: Stained Glass Sunrise

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We had a fabulous big, old tree on the hill behind our house in Chapel Hill and I used to love to watch the sun rise in the winter through the bare tree branches. Took this from the deck one winter morning and it made me think of the so many colorful stained glass windows I've seen in churches and cathedrals. Watching the sunrise--over the ocean, from the deck of our house, or now from the balcony of my downtown apartment--has always connected me to the beauty in nature and the cyclical nature of life.

And, of course, there is the allusion to the Tree of Life as the sunrise is seen through the branches of this beautiful, big, old tree.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. That is truly beautiful, my dear mnhtnbb...

It looks a lot like stained glass. I wish you could enter it, but it would likely win! It is that good.

[mnhtnbb]

14. Thank you, CaliforniaPeggy. Here's the real thing

in a detail of one of the windows at La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Took this last summer when I was there. You have to book a time to enter the cathedral, and I was there in the late afternoon. If I ever go again, I'll book early in the morning. The west windows were just totally blown out with strong late afternoon sun, so this is a window on the other side.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. So beautiful and such great designs and colors! Thanks.

[Mira]

18. Magnificent

just like your photograph of it happening behind the tree branches. I love that photo, and these windows.

[mnhtnbb]

20. I know that Adsos Letter was in Barcelona

last year, too, and perhaps is considering an entry of a shot taken in La Sagrada Familia? Or something else from that trip?

Hint, hint, Adsos Letter!

[ohhellyes]

43. Absolutely

Beautiful. Love it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Mine ("May") was taken at the University of Minnesota's Landscape Arboretum

a couple of Mays ago. The Arboretum, which can be reached by driving right past Prince's Paisley Park, is an amazing place.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. My photograph, "At Peace", was taken in Recoleta Cemetery in

Buenos Aries. I was immensely drawn to this statue seated on a grave. The face of the young angel shows sadness, and yet, he is at peace.

[mnhtnbb]

21. More wonderful submissions, but we need

MORE!!

Please?

[Mira]

22. It shocks me

that we don't have more submissions for this special themed contest. Please friends, country"men" and photographers, contribute. You all have a place where you feel peaceful and happy and that is therefore sacred to you. Or the beauty of a church that could be sacred to others. So many options, so few photos.
Please, everyone, make this contest come to life.

[Mira]

23. Just got to post a second photo, here is the background

The locks are on the fence at the famous Karl's bridge in Prague. They symbolize the love and commitment lovers pledge to each other. The bridge crosses the river Moldau, which is eternally glorified in Fredric Smetana's music.

If you want to "hear" the river, play the music.

[sinkingfeeling]

24. I thought it was Prague. I have a photo very much like yours.

I was there last October. When did you go?

[Mira]

27. A year ago

possibly even to this very week. It was spectacular all the way around as you saw yourself. Have any favorite memory?

[sinkingfeeling]

28. I loved having lunch at a cafe along the river, on Kampa island.

[Mira]

29. So much beauty

so much history, so much of the sacred. I was overwhelmed.

[ohhellyes]

25. Hi everybody - long time no see..

my photo was taken at Buttons Bluff, Virginia. I sat and waited for sunset and the train to come around the curve with its light on.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. I don't see your photo, my dear ohhellyes! And Welcome Back!

I scanned the list twice and your name didn't appear. I wonder what happened.

[ohhellyes]

35. Thank you for the welcome back.

I think I posted my photo in the wrong place, the how to post. I just reposted it. i hope you are doing well.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

37. Oh, good...I will go see it momentarily! I am well, and very glad to see you! n/t

[Skittles]

26. "May" intrigues me

just today I was thinking there are other ways nature indicates the month other than the weather!

[mnhtnbb]

31. We're getting there! Thank you for the response to submit more photos! But...

we still have room for MORE!

[ohhellyes]

32. my submission

disappeared. ???

[mnhtnbb]

33. Please post it again.

[mnhtnbb]

34. Success! It's up!

Thanks for posting it again.

[ohhellyes]

36. you're welcome.

Thanks for checking. Hope you are well. I've missed you guys.

[ohhellyes]

38. Sunrise on the blueridge parkway

[mnhtnbb]

39. Gorgeous shot, but you only get to enter it once!

[ohhellyes]

41. I removed the duplicate. Don't know why it posted twice.

[mnhtnbb]

40. We have room for 4 more entries!

I'm delighted that the contest is filling up!

However, if we get to 30 entries between now and Sunday, due to my schedule and the fact I have an out of town guest arriving this evening, I won't get prelims up until Monday or possibly Sunday evening at the earliest!

[mnhtnbb]

42. Last day to enter! Room for 2 more photos!

[mnhtnbb]

44. Submissions are Closed!

Prelims will be posted this afternoon.