B&W RESULT: #241 Black & White Challenge

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Ice skating movement :inlove: Chartres - France
iPhone 11 Pro - Lightroom mobile
 
terse said:
Why thank you for asking!:lmao:

The poem's about love. (Wikipedia summary) A translation into modern English of the opening lines:

The life so short, the craft so long to learn,​
The assay so hard, so sharp the conquering,​
The fearful joy that slips away in turn,​
All this mean I by Love​
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The narrator is one of Chaucer's typical goofy and unreliable ones. He says:

For although I know not Love in deed​
Nor know how he pays his folk their hire,​
Yet full oft it happens in books I read​
Of his miracles and his cruel ire.​

(In other words, "I have no experience and don't know what people get out of it, but I've read a lot.")

He spends the day reading an old book, falls asleep, and has a dream in which he's transported (eventually) to where Nature is presiding over a gathering of the birds as they choose their mates. Arguments ensue. The parliament ends, the birds fly off, and the narrator wakes and goes back to his books, hoping to read something to his advantage and generally missing the point of everything that's happened.

(You think I'm kidding about the goofy and unreliable narrator? Try The House of Fame, in which the narrator is carried off dangling from the talons of a giant eagle who wants to lecture him about the stars.)
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Oooohh, as in parliament of crows / magpies / owls . . .
And lots of layers in the narration. (Was Chaucer considered a satirist?)
Looks like hard work :eek: Give me the metaphysicals any day, much easier to unpack.
(Thanks for tutorial :inlove::notworthy::))
 
This Challenge is now CLOSED. It’s the task of Populuxe Kent to choose his favourites from this bevy of beauties. Over to you Kent, whenever you have a moment.
 
So many good photos.

First place: sinnerjohn - Going round the bend. Beautifully composed.
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Second place: terse - parlement of fowles. Just a wonderful image.
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Third place: sdimbour - Limours by night. A perfectly lit night shot.
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Populuxe said:
So many good photos.

First place: sinnerjohn - Going round the bend. Beautifully composed.
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Second place: terse - parlement of fowles. Just a wonderful image.
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Third place: sdimbour - Limours by night. A perfectly lit night shot.
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Thanks Kent - great judging. Super congratulations to sinnerjohn John (again :lol: ) - that is a lovely, serene image. Is that taken from the narrow boat? High fives to terse Ted and sdimbour Sandra. All of the images have a certain serenity to them (imho), even though they are river canal, coastal and town. Gorgeous. Well done to all who posted - I always say, the challenge is nothing without you. Right, I’m off so sail down the river canal to the Gallery with John’s image. See you there.
 
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Populuxe said:
So many good photos.

First place: sinnerjohn - Going round the bend. Beautifully composed.
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Second place: terse - parlement of fowles. Just a wonderful image.
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Third place: sdimbour - Limours by night. A perfectly lit night shot.
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Many thanks Kent, as ever and it seems like a cliché when anyone wins these challenges, I have to say I wasn't expecting that. Probably because there are so many great images week after week. It's an honour.
Well done Ted and Sandra, both possible winners in my eyes.

JillyG it was on the narrow boat last weekend yes, on the canal not river ;-)
 
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