Pauper 

7 creative works found

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  Pauper's Smile
  by burstbubble

  Smile just for the beauty of smiling. It takes 72 muscles to frown but only 14 muscles to smile. So put your muscles to good use and smile :)

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  Homeless
  by suesight

  A haunting scene as a Beggar hugs two Dogs for warmth and bows his Head in thanks as Money is put into his cap as the Sun rises for a new day on a rarely deserted Charles Bridge in Prague.

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  All the colours of madness...
  by compoundeye

  Studies going as far back as that of Goethe in the early 1700s have understood that pale green – the colour of new plant growth – is the most psychologically positive and restful colour… So I wonder what the authorities were trying to do to the already fragile minds of patients locked in shocking pink, electric green, and custard yellow cells? The more I look at my shots, the more clues to inherent barbarity I begin see in the treatment of vunerable people.

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  Stille nacht, ruchlose nacht...
  by compoundeye

  The grand staircase, this time shot with only available light/mirk for a more unsettling ‘Silent Hill’ look. Just a little light tone mapping to avoid burn-out and retain shadow detail, otherwise this is all natural – including the small scrap of very blue wallpaper in the bottom left.

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  The Ball of the Back-Fastening Jackets
  by compoundeye

  A slightly more ‘matter-of-fact’ depiction of the Ballroom at St John’s lunatic asylum… It is doubtful whether most of the occupants ever set foot on it’s parquet dance floor, or enjoyed cinematic & theatrical presentations here. I find it difficult to reconcile the relative grandiosity and opulence of this space with the harsh and unforgiving high security wards that dominate this ‘hospital’.

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  The Pauper
  by Robert Chawner

  Artist’s Comments / One of the 4 kittens we found once we came back from holiday. / Someone’s cat had given birth to them under our house. / Been slowly making friends with them (very slowly) so I can eventually catch them and take them to the cat protection society. / I’m at the tentative pat stage so far. Camera: Canon G10 / Used a Hanimex Tz2 flash to bring up the front field in broad daylight. / Adobe lightroom for corrections. Respect my art, don’t steal.

• Sheeeeesh Me...
  by ianez

  backseat / backyard / buppy and her / beatnik balderdash… who is that moods me? / you is what MOVES me! / press your prose / through this…