Too Abstract/Weird?

pemmett

Although I like this image of a banana flower, would it be contest worthy? :dunno

pyroPrints.com

Very "Georgia O'Keeffe".

hawkeye978

To me it's a nice shot but I'm not sure it has the 'Wow' factor I think you would need for a semi final round.

pemmett

pyroPrints.com wrote:

Very "Georgia O'Keeffe".

after looking them up on Google, I'll take that as a complement

pemmett

hawkeye978 wrote:

To me it's a nice shot but I'm not sure it has the 'Wow' factor I think you would need for a semi final round.

I tend to agree with you - just shows you how desprate I'm getting with this :cry

pyroPrints.com

pemmett wrote:

after looking them up on Google, I'll take that as a complement

It was a compliment. You looked at just the images? Or the articles as well?

from an article wrote:

Black Iris, one of Georgia O’Keefe’s beautiful flower paintings, hangs on the bulletin board outside my room. Last month, as someone walked by my room, I heard her say, “Who has the vagina hanging next to her door?” in reference to this painting. I immediately went outside my room to defend my favorite artist, and explain that O’Keefe created her close up paintings of flowers with no sexual imagery in mind, though critics have constantly attempted to do imply that she did. An interesting discussion ensued, and later, as I looked at the paintings which cover my walls with greater scrutiny, I could not deny the fact that her work does evoke sexual images. Though Georgia O’Keefe did not paint flowers with sexual images in mind, flowers, like all living things, are imbued with an aura of sexuality. Through this paper I wish to explore the nature of the sexuality of flowers, the reproductive organs of plants

Dalantech

I can't comment on the "abstract factor" since I entered one, but I do agree that it just doesn't have that "pop"...

pemmett

pyroPrints.com wrote:

It was a compliment. You looked at just the images? Or the articles as well?

I hadn't read the article, but now I don;t know if I'll ever be able to look at the flower in the same way !