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SO Photography Contest Discussion!!

hey SA etc.

can we schedule more themes for the future, please? we have some awesome suggestions from n3ophy7e and pennywise. :)

i like to write them out on a post-it and keep it in my wallet. :D
 
uhh i take it that's two seperate themes?

i'm not sure how 'salience' could be used as a theme... permanence is a good one though. :)
 
Lol yes separate.

I guess Salience is just a much more vague and conceptual version of "permanence", just to give people a hard time ;).

Btw another good variation on this team might be "Ever-presence". I think I was trying to say that when I said "salience" - which is definitely a bad choice of words!
 
Jamshyd said:
Lol yes separate.

I guess Salience is just a much more vague and conceptual version of "permanence", just to give people a hard time ;).
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so vague that it means something completely different? ;)

6 dictionary results for: salient

–adjective
1. prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
2. projecting or pointing outward: a salient angle.
3. leaping or jumping: a salient animal.
4. Heraldry. (of a beast) represented as leaping: a lion salient.

–noun
5. a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
6. Physical Geography. a landform that extends out beyond its surroundings, as a spur projecting from the side of a mountain.

—Synonyms 1. important; striking, remarkable.
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number 1 is what i've always thought the word to mean, so i looked it up to check.

i can do 'sealions', is that close enough? :D
 
I think "self portrait" sounds like it'd be cool, you could do a lot with that, maybe the self portrait isnt necessarily of your face :p :)
 
Felix: I guess my understanding of the word was slightly off. I also thought of it as the first meaning however "prominent" for me was mostly through time, ie. something that is "always there". ]


Sealions aside though, I still push for "everpressence" as a theme :).
 
Mz_Thizzle said:
I think "self portrait" sounds like it'd be cool, you could do a lot with that, maybe the self portrait isnt necessarily of your face :p :)
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that makes me think of 'the human body' as a theme. might be interesting.
 
i suggested "FREEDOM or the OPPOSITE" to SA but i was told to put my suggestion in this thread , so there it is....

i think people should have to specify what part of the theme they are trying to portray.
 
a recap of all the suggested themes still to be done - please note that some of the others are now listed in the latest contest for bars/pubs. :)

Mountains
Funny Faces
Rainbows
Sculpture
Houses/Homes
Landmarks/Monuments
Flying Machines
Fantasy
Iconography
Popular Culture
Self-portrait/Timer shots
Dilapidated
Time
Empty
Anachronism
Isolation
New beginnings
Ghost photos
Australiana
Permanence/Ever-presence
The human body
Freedom (or the opposite!)

any other suggestions? please add them here!
 
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