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Fleur-Ange Lamothe
First, my first New Year's Eve remembrance.
I think the year was 1953. I was in my crib and my mother tucked me in and said, "See you next year." Well, actually she said, "Je te verrai l'annEe prochaine."
And I replied: "Mais je ne veux pas dormir si longtemps." That is, "But I don't want to sleep that long!"
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I have had this Christmas ornament since 1976. It was hand-made by one of my students from my short stint teaching in high school. I have put it up every year, except this year. We have a tiny live tree this year. So I unwrapped it, for the Iron Photography project!
It is the eggshell from a chicken's egg, with the side not showing, cut open in an oval shape. Inside is a snow-covered scene of Santa and a deer.
The Iron Photographer Challenge
The elements for Iron Photographer 38 were simple but required a certain subtlety and an active imagination:
1 - one or more eggs
2 - white background
3 - portrait page orientation
For the purpose of this IP event, we understood an egg to be an ovum with or without its shell or outer layer, and with or without the internal membranes and nutrients for an embryo. We didn't care what color it was, or whether it was from a chicken or a sparrow or a turtle or a velociraptor. All that mattered was that it was recognizably an egg. We didn't care what the background was so long as it was some shade of white. Portrait orientation was self-explanatory.
The results were surprisingly varied and demonstrate why Utata has become a haven for imaginative photographers (and more than a few troubled minds).
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All photographs shown on Utata are stored on flickr. This photo and text © Églantine.
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