Okay since i have a very roundabout way of precieving things i figured i should start a page for explaining some of my photos that even i dont see as very straightfoward.

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10 days of photography - drakkar
10 days of photography

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Day One:
Theme: [ The Love of Power ]

Explanation Of image: The theme was the love of power, first and formost the character in the photos is Yotsuba Koiwai, commonly refered to as just yotsuba, the idea behind her manga is that she doesnt know anything and therefore everyday is a new adventure to her. From my personal point of view love comes in two forms physical and emotional, i was going for the emotional sense (remember on christmas or your birthday or whenever you got that new toy you always wanted and you would play with it for hours on end, to that extent you loved said object. Now if everything were new to you and everyday was like that day when you got your most beloved treasure then you would have a love for whatever new wonders you discovered. As for the power aspect of the photo, there books, lots and lots of books, and said book contain the knowledge and experience of many people, when you aquire the knowledge of others and use it for your own purposes it empowers you. As simply put by Sir Francis Bacon "Knowledge is power" (and knowing is half the battle). As for a physical power aspect...i unno i suppose if someone tipped the bookcase over onto you that you would be overpowered by the books xD.

All in all the books are a representation of power. In addition to that they are new to yotsuba, because they are something new she has a certain sense of love for them, therefore a love for power
For more on yotsuba check out wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba_Koiwai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba&!

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Day Two:
Theme: [ Feathered Dreams ]

Explanation Of image: Alright this one was tough Decided to keep the photo simple since the explanation of it is probably gunna be butthurt to read. Feathered Dreams the things that come to mind are subtle, angels, birds, small winged creatures. I says to myslef i says...."FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" then thought about it. "pens!". To understand this we must first go back a bit, all the way to midevil and before times back to the day of the quill. Now a quill being feathered writing utensil fits the description of something thats fethered but a pen however is another story. :3 flashback time. Remember when you were young, slightly older, or at your current age when you said i want to be like this person here (or that person there whichever you prefer), wether that person was a parent, a caretaker, a game or tv character, or someone out of your favorite book, at some point or another we have all wanted to be or be like someone else, it was our DREAM to become as much as we could like that person we looked up to. Now enters the quill , though it is in inaimate object what would the quill aspire to be? Would he (or she or possibly he/she depending on your choosing) want to be a canon inkjet printer with 1,000 dot per inch 5 page a second priniting capability. Or perhaps simply stick more simply to [insert gender choice] most current form, the pen.

:3 happy sunshine story version
One day Mr. Q was sitting on his handlers desk daydreaming to himelf, "oh how i wish i could go beyond these walls, if only there were some way that i could go with my handler and store the precious ink that i need to be of use more convieniatly then my handler having to take a bottle with him, why if i could produce my own i would even wear some form of silly cap to make sure it didnt spill out...but thats a silly notion, just another feathered dream. >.> after that a fairy godmother, mad scientist, evolution, whichever one you want etc etc PENS ftw happy endings all around xD

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Day Three
Theme:[ Maybe It's Haunted? ]

Explanation : Kinda bummed out about this one since i didnt have any
inscence to add that final touch to make it my own to the
image but it came out nicely given i know jack squat about
using flash since i almost never use it. Basic principle
nothing to roundabout, a "possesed" inanimate object could
be referenced to something that might be haunted. :3 or who
knows maybe the oni headband and ligament bending are just
for cosplay purposes x3

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Day Four
Theme: [ What Makes You Tick? ]

Explanation: x3 didnt have a wide angle lense big enough to fit all the stuff that makes me tick into one shot so i based it all into one simpler truth. One of the main things that makes me tick is the unknown, what i dont know, and what i dont know that i could know, places ive never been, people ive never met, things ive never done. My quest for the unknown is invariably my quest for knowledge, this by no means says that i want to know everything but having a through of the world and its ways is a sort of guiding light for me. Side note_ Longest exposure ive done for the competition, overall time for it was 30 seconds which is how i achieved the ghost effect with yotsuba.

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Day Five
Theme : [ Thrills & Chills ]


Firstly Guns are weapons, they have the potential to seriously fuck you up. Dont play with them. E-V-E-R! Uncle [drakkar] uses unloaded air pistols in his shots because he knows they wont endager him or the people around him.

Explanation: I was listening to all my music on shuffle when i logged on to see what todays theme was "[ Thrills & Chills ]...what can i do for that?" music player queue's up shinedown 45 (starin down the barrel of a 45) "i suppose that'll work" and here we are xD. I thought to myself if in any of the first action or spy flicks you ever saw there is always that one scene where either the protagonist or antagonist is staring down the barrel of something so why not go with that. It provides even more of this feeling if you have ever had to work on gun disarms for people who try and be tacticool and arent wounded but actually try to hold a gun with one hand xD I converted it to black and white because i liked it more then shooting the monochrome that you can do in camera in addition to me not having done a black and white shot for the contest yet.

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Day six
Theme : [ Breathless ]

Explanation: Pretty straightfoward, theres good breathlessness like just running a mile and a half in 10 minutes and bad breathlessness like being snuck up on i with a garbage bag xD :3 what i never understood is why noone just pokes a hole in the bag after opening there mouth to gasp in for air. x3

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Day Seven
Theme: [ Vision ]

Explanation: I was once told that to be a great photographer you need great vision, not vision strictly in the sense of sight but in the senses of compostion precognition and in feelings. Your vision should extend beyond your subject into the area around your subject, you should see that decisive moment before it happens and be able to capture it, you should see your subjects feelings and be able to preserve that emotion for eternity, all with the use of some film and that little box.

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Day Eight
Theme :[ Annoying ]

Explanation : Generic 45 degree, bathroom mirror, looking at the camera, noisy as hell, flash on inside a well lit area, bathroom myspace photos. ANNOYING AS FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Day Nine
Theme: [ Bonnie & Clyde ]

Explanation: Yot...err bonnie and clyde chillaxin on a moneh bed x3

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Day Ten
Theme : [ Gangsters/Gangsta's ]

Explanation: Gangsta's.....*in a hate filled gravely voice*  "get off my lawn!"

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:3 thats all folks, Hope you enjoyed it.