LFGSS weekly photography challenge

SkyDancer - Local Gem
[xXxXx]
moocher - Emmeline
[]
moorhen - Nina Donovan
[x]
MrDrem - The Woman of Willendorf
[]
WillMelling - Betsi Cadwaladr
[X]
mi7rennie - mum
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Really tight between mi7rennie and skydancer. Well done all.

FWIW I think it was a great theme... challenging but not offensive, or unfriendly IMO. I'm just sorry I wasn't able to find the time to check the theme this week.

SkyDancer - Local Gem
[xXxXxX]
moocher - Emmeline
[]
moorhen - Nina Donovan
[x]
MrDrem - The Woman of Willendorf
[]
WillMelling - Betsi Cadwaladr
[X]
mi7rennie - mum
[XXXX]

I don't think there's anything wrong with the theme in and of itself. It's just some of the chat around the themes/photos has gotten a bit, well - it's hard to know who/what the barbs are directed at.

I was fully up for this theme, just found myself busy this week

Same.

Lol at the ninja edit.

I had chosen my muse and everything, and then learned she was legitimately half way round the world...

(Karen's the only woman on the Yonex Pro Stringing team, busy working at the Aussie Open, who runs a great little racket sports shop in Norwich between Grand Slams)

It's just some of the chat around the themes/photos has gotten a bit, well - it's hard to know who/what the barbs are directed at.

My bad. I was reading that article by Mitch Ben about his internal debate regarding attending the women's march, and also really wanting to see the thread light up with loads of pics of inspiration women perhaps in light of general disappointment at the misogynist in the white house. Apologies if anyone was offended.

I suspect you mean Mitch Benn... Autocorrect?

Incorrect
Mild dyslexia ;)

SkyDancer - Local Gem
[xXxXxX]
moocher - Emmeline
[]
moorhen - Nina Donovan
[x]
MrDrem - The Woman of Willendorf
[]
WillMelling - Betsi Cadwaladr
[XX]
mi7rennie - mum
[XXXX]

@skydancer, you win! Please let us know this week's theme of your choice.

Cool
In this era of alt facts and post truth this weeks topic , #symbolism aims to represent absolute truth in art.

This from Wikipedia
"Symbolists believed that art should represent absolute truths that could only be described indirectly. Thus, they wrote in a very metaphorical and suggestive manner, endowing particular images or objects with symbolic meaning"

Some examples of symbolist photographs from Alvin Langdon Coburn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Langdon_Coburn

And from Gertrude Kasebier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_K%C3%A4sebier

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And another...

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Looks good!

Sally Yates (American Attorney General, just sacked and labelled a 'betrayer' for standing up to Trump) is my new #inspirational_woman

If only this was a few days ago. As I was in America. And I could get a photo of her without being arrested.

#symbolism
31/Jan/17

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I'm not entirely sure what this week's theme is about, which is fair enough. Twins are a frequent symbolic motif in fiction so....
Twins.
#symbolism

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Good photos ^ ^^
#symbolism
The Spirit of Primrose Hill

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Justice
#symbolism

Needed a better camera to do this justice (sorry).

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Twins is good..

#symbolism
A time for every purpose

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted

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#symbolism ......oppression, the wall...

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#symbolism Political Engagement, scored for Steam Trains.

#symbolism

Grief

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Hung out to dry!

Violin
#symbolism

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