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Hornitos, California -May 2008
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12-MAY-2008

Escaping Spirit
Hornitos, California -May 2008

Olympus Evolt E-510
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Carol E Sandgren22-May-2009 03:43
I agree with all three comments here. But spirits can never be contained. That's what makes them spirits!
Iris Maybloom (irislm)16-May-2009 02:04
Another powerful image. The spirit, once confined, emerges through death and ascends upward.
sunlightpix15-May-2009 21:12
The soft focus tracks suggest cigarette smoke to me. Pall Mall and the pall of death.
Phil Douglis15-May-2009 03:56
The softly focused tracks do indeed suggest escape for the spirit, but an iron fence and barbed wire simultaneously hems it in. It is the tension between escape and entrapment gives this image its energy.