The places that we pass through day after day, or even once in a lifetime, leave in their small way, echoes and traces of themselves upon us. But so often when taking self portraits or pictures of friends, the places themselves become a soft blurred mush of indistinct semi-nothingness, the limelight stolen by our smiling faces. In today’s challenge, let’s turn the tables. Take a picture of someone as a shadow, a reflection, or a lesser part of a scene, making the background, or the foreground, the center of attention.
– so Pick challenges us.
In this photo I tried to capture the fascination on the guy’s face, while he watches the grim spectacle of a snake feeding on an (already dead) rat. It’s the way of nature, for to the snake this prey is as normal as a steak is to us: supper.
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Nice work! You won’t see this twice 🙂
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Once was enough haha.
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Very dramatic….poor old rat
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Poor old snake too, locked up in a hotel with all comfort, but without its freedom.
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This photo sends shivers up my spine!
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Then quickly close the window, Janaline! Would it be better if the snake used fork and knife? 😉
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Just the thought of the snake actually swallowing the small creature alive and then crushing it to death is a bit creepy!!
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Nice one. And being in B&W makes it more effective I think
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Thanks, Colline. I liked the B&W better too with this one 🙂
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I’d be happy to keep this one far away, in the background.
Best whises, 🙂
http://www.starbear.no/mormor/2013/05/25/weekly-photo-challenge-in-the-background/
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Then I’ll keep it in the background for you, Mormor.
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