WINNER ANNOUNCED ... 27th Serious Compacts Salon Challenge "Album Cover"

Briar

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For the 27th Serious Compacts Salon Challenge, I want you to shoot an image worthy of a music album cover. Let your hair down (if you have any, if not grab a wig!) and go as wild or as tame as you want! Any genre of music will do as your inspiration. Whatever floats your boat. Post your image with the name of the artist and the album name that gave you the inspiration.

The salon starts tomorrow March 20th and shall run for 2 weeks, ending on 11:59 pm Karen time (which usually runs a little later than most people on this planet), Friday, April 3rd.
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Rules are simple................

1. Either take a picture that matches the nominated theme or select one from your portfolio. You must be the photographer that created the picture in order to enter it.

2. There are several ways to add your photos to the current salon thread: 1. upload your entry to your SC user gallery (all entries must be present in an SC gallery), which you automatically get if you are registered on the SC forum, so if you aren`t registered you will need to if you would like to join the fun. (Don't know about the "gallery" yet? Then read this: SC Gallery FAQ please read it carefully if you are new to using the site's software.) 2. embed from Flickr or another similar web hosting photo site and 3. use the attachment method. All three are explained here:How to post images in forum threads

3. Only one entry per salon, please. If you want to withdraw an entry and replace it with another, that is OK, but you must make it clear in the post containing your replacement picture that this is what you've done. You can add or change the title and add to the edit line to let everyone know.

4. The decision of the curator at the end of the challenge is final - don't give him/her a hard time about it: this is just a friendly photo challenge, after all!

5. The person who submitted the chosen picture will assume the responsibility of curator for the next Salon Challenge and as soon as possible post a message in a new thread in the SC Photo Challenges forum, with details of the new theme. Don't forget - that opening message must include a copy of these instructions, which also double as the rules.

6. The curator can't enter his or her own salon.

7. Please, don´t be shy...Participate and have fun!

8. Each salon should be open for about two weeks.
 
Well an album cover is traditionally 30cm square, but I'm sure Karen will consider a photo of any aspect ratio. If your photo happens to be a more traditional aspect ratio, just pretend it's some artwork for a cassette tape ;)
 
The image can be any shape or ratio
Album cover is Square for LP or CD (my line of music country)

DvD??
 
Got love these challenges for pushing you into uncharted territory


Strange Fruit




Edit :- Thought I'd add some background links & history to this song


Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.



All of the above plus a truly fascinating history here :-

The Strange Story Of The Man Behind 'Strange Fruit'
 
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