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Tribute to Eugène Atget (B/W only)

Challenge #7 in the The Golden Ages series. Hosted by Sonylover1.

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One of my favourites photos is Atgets– Jardin du Luxembourg (1906). It fits to my Golden Ages series because he managed to catch the solitary man, the empty feeling in a society transformed (industrialization). Hundred years has passed and we are in a new transformation phase - the postmodern society - more lost than ever. Study Atgets pictures on the net and try to catch the "lost" feeling in his pictures. See my own futile example...

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Announced:

Saturday, 13th August, 2011 (GMT)

Submissions:

Saturday, 20th August, 2011 – Friday, 26th August, 2011 (GMT)

Voting:

Saturday, 27th August, 2011 – Friday, 2nd September, 2011 (GMT)

Processing rules:

BW photos only.
Basic postprocessing ( but do your best)
No HDR
Portraitformat (standing picture) only (cropping ok)

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Pictures must have been taken after year 2006
Picture should not have been entered to a DP Challenge before
No nudity
No political text
Picture must contain a SINGLE human in a park or a desolate citylandscape.
No portraits
No animals

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

100

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Baden-Baden,Trinkhalle

by Rechteck

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Camera:	Pentax K20D
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Submitted:	Thursday, 25th August, 2011 19:45 (GMT)
Taken:	Wednesday, 22nd October, 2008
Focal length:	24 mm
Shutter speed:	1/40 sec
Aperture:	F5.6
ISO:	500
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Galleries:	View this photo in Rechteck's gallery

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