The Way Eye See It
Absolute Power
Posted by Marcah (Quincy, United States) on 16 December 2008 in Miscellaneous and Portfolio.
True, This! -
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! - itself a nothing! -
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyze the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! - Take away the sword -
States can be saved without it!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his play Richelieu
Observing from West Cheshire, United Kingdom
The ink that is put on paper can kill by starting wars, it can save and rescue too, it depends on our masters what they want. Lovely image very well composed.
16 Dec 2008 5:53am
Amir from tehran, Iran
What a shot. perfect processing and edition it has.
U have nice ideas to make perfect pix.
tanx
16 Dec 2008 7:36am
k@ from Paris, France
I can see how the one who had written here was dressed (not like me at this very moment for sure ;-) Love the letter in transparence, the colors, and to figure out why it turned so scarlet red... Like in a Hawthorne masterpiece ? Since this is masterpiece, once more...
16 Dec 2008 8:13am
rominne from Romania
this is more than a photo. is a lesson of creativity. i like your post processing technique too. i don't really know why but it made me think about the famous "marchis-du-sade" :).. strange connection. anyway great work. congrats
16 Dec 2008 8:24am
EYES WIDE SHUT from The valleys of tranquility, United Kingdom
Beautifully processed and presented. huis should be the cover to a novel, such amazing depth and quality
16 Dec 2008 11:33am
zOOm from Paris, France
Very Shakesperian in fact... lovely luminous light coming through the ink pot ! Beautiful as a painting !
16 Dec 2008 11:42am
blackivory from Singapore, Singapore
Wonderful imagery. I like the processing done here.
16 Dec 2008 1:16pm
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
This is such an incredible image, a work of art. The placement of the objects in the frame are perfect. Elegant!
16 Dec 2008 1:38pm
JJ from Jersey City, United States
Amazing capture and processing again, I have no idea how you do what you do but you do it so amazingly well
As for the pen being mightier than the sword very true, but its also very true that many wars have started through the words written by a pen, maybe I am skeptical through where i work and what I have seen in my travels to war torn spots in the woorld, but in all honesty if there were no weapons on the planet, wars would be thought with pens and the only difference is they would take a lot more stabs to fatally injure someone than a sword would
16 Dec 2008 1:50pm
Nataly from Santa Monica, United States
Very Beautiful! I feel like I just traveled in to the "War and Peace" by Tolstoy. Sooo romantic!
16 Dec 2008 4:30pm
Polydactyle from Montréal, Canada
Beautiful composition. Colors and textures are great! Art masterpiece!
16 Dec 2008 4:53pm
NarB from Bruxelles, Belgium
Great composition and superb processing . Nicely done . I like
16 Dec 2008 7:35pm
Alivia from Saint-Etienne, France
une compo comme une nature morte, avec la transparence de l'eau et la photo traitée comme une peinture.. quel travail, bravo.
20 Feb 2009 12:03pm
Canon EOS 40D
1/4 second
F/2.8
ISO 800
17 mm