The Siren's Call: Looks like our pirates have followed the call like so many before them. Their fate is sealed. I got the inspiration for this, two or three years back, from a...

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Looks like our pirates have followed the call like so many before them. Their fate is sealed.
I got the inspiration for this, two or three years back, from a sculpture of a fan-like form, which lead to the harp shape shown here. I'm not sure about the image, shelved it for a while and have decided it's about done. If you have any opinion or critique I will appreciate it.

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jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

jaymatt wrote:

Thanks John!👍

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

There's a lot to love here, Dave, starting with the concept. The big, bold harp is fabulous, as is the idea to place her up there! I also love the sky and the position of its lighter horizonal area. The rocks and ship with collapsing sails are wonderful.

Now, to our lady: for me the dress is too elegant and perfect - I can only think she's leaving soon for her job as a first-chair stringed instrument at Carnegie Hall

The posture of the men feels like they're just discussing something. I'd love to see them crawling or falling down, with tattered clothes.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Great idea really well executed. I guess the only issue with it is the title. She looks like no Siren I've ever seen. If I may ask, where did you get the Pirate Ship?

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Linda From Maine wrote:

There's a lot to love here, Dave, starting with th... (show quote)

Thing is Linda, she’s a posh siren see, kinda ‘haute couture’! You know my ladies - they’re all nicely dressed, well, apart from Ragged Victorians, and you just can’t cast one of those in this role. How about a Steampunk siren then? I know, how about that lady that was legging it from a lighthouse way back - she definitely would work! Now, I have an admission. I knew somebody would want crawling pirates - and I do have somewhere in my extensive self-made image collection - but I could NOT be asked to go searching! Bad eh?
Glad you liked the other aspects of the image - the harp took a while to create in Ps but was fun.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Curmudgeon wrote:

Great idea really well executed. I guess the only issue with it is the title. She looks like no Siren I've ever seen. If I may ask, where did you get the Pirate Ship?

Thanks Jack. The ship has featured in other posts of mine. It’s the Good Hope and was returning to Charlestown harbour in Cornwall after a days filming with Tom Hardy. I just happened to call in there at the right moment. For this composite it was lifted, ready-selected, from another of my composites titled Two Weeks in Cornwall or something similar. Perhaps I’ll re-post that one, it’s so long ago there’s only Linda in the group nowadays that’s likely to remember it! In the current one I copied a section of the masts and tilted it, then painted-in some sails and popped a skull&crossed-bones on.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

magnetoman wrote:

Thing is Linda, she’s a posh siren see, kinda ‘hau... (show quote)

Sure sounds like you're getting lazy in your old age, Dave.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Linda From Maine wrote:

Sure sounds like you're getting lazy in your old age, Dave.

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dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

These poor sailors have been away from women too long and too often intimate with mind-deadly Lead-cleared wine.** The shot is startling part of a chapter in Sinbad The Sailor, hero of "The Thousand and One Nights" as he recounts his adventures on seven voyages.. Photo technically excellent... composition and story.

**https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine/lead-toxicity-wine-history/

L-Fox

magnetoman wrote:

Looks like our pirates have followed the call like so many before them. Their fate is sealed.
I got the inspiration for this, two or three years back, from a sculpture of a fan-like form, which lead to the harp shape shown here. I'm not sure about the image, shelved it for a while and have decided it's about done. If you have any opinion or critique I will appreciate it.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

dpullum wrote:

These poor sailors have been away from women too long and too often intimate with mind-deadly Lead-cleared wine.** The shot is startling part of a chapter in Sinbad The Sailor, hero of "The Thousand and One Nights" as he recounts his adventures on seven voyages.. Photo technically excellent... composition and story.

**https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine/lead-toxicity-wine-history/

Thanks for your comments Don, and the link - fortunately wine doesn’t seem to last long around here, certainly not long enough to starting lead-leaching from the wine glass. I don’t drink it myself but others do. I’d tip them off but they’d only drink faster! Of course the pirates in my pic are really rum kinda folk.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

l-fox wrote:

👍 thank you!

gsnelson Loc: Western Maryland

magnetoman wrote:

Looks like our pirates have followed the call like so many before them. Their fate is sealed.
I got the inspiration for this, two or three years back, from a sculpture of a fan-like form, which lead to the harp shape shown here. I'm not sure about the image, shelved it for a while and have decided it's about done. If you have any opinion or critique I will appreciate it.

It is pleasingly inventive!

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

gsnelson wrote:

It is pleasingly inventive!

Thanks Gerry. It took a while to go in the right direction - here's the direction it started toward (which includes the original sculpture).

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