Round 4

Jessie

(16 points)

📍The Library of Trinity College, Dublin

Pictures of this place don’t do it justice. Standing in the center of this room is overwhelming, rows and rows of bookcases on either side, two stories tall, with these gorgeous high vaulted ceilings really makes you feel small. I wish I could’ve taken a photo when it was empty, but I feel like the scale and the symmetry is still captured, even with all the people.

Elijah voted 2 points

Kristina voted 1 points

Hummel, TJ voted 2 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "This is a really cool shot! I loved how you captured how big the space is and highlight the symmetry of the shelving :) "

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 2 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "dude I would give this 4 upvotes if I could. WOW"

Aubrie voted 2 points and said: "gorgeous "

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "This place looks ethereal!"

AJ voted 2 points and said: "good good good"

AJ

(16 points)

i always love taking photos straight down roads or hallways, this was a cool one I saw recently

Elijah voted 1 points

Kristina voted 2 points and said: "great shot"

Hummel, TJ voted 2 points and said: "My immediate thought for this round was also a hallway like this but I didn’t happen to stumble across one in the time of this prompt haha"

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "I also always love a long hotel hallway. This is a very cool liminal space. "

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 2 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "Love the oranges "

Aubrie voted 2 points and said: "i love the lights on the floor and ceiling. hallways are perfect for this prompt"

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "This lighting looks like its from Inception"

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Kind of feels like two little girls in matching blue dresses should be holding hands at the end of this hallway"

Jacob

(15 points)

Crafted in 1936 Germany and captured by the US in 1945, the Horst Wessel (renamed USCGC Eagle) is a 295-foot barque used as a training vessel in the United States Coast Guard. One of 2 sailing vessels in the US military.

This is the figurehead leading the ship.

Elijah voted 1 points

Kristina voted 1 points

Hummel, TJ voted 2 points and said: "Very jealous you got to go to this Jacob haha. So nicely framed too"

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "This is very cool and really symmetric for the prompt! "

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 2 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "love birdies "

Aubrie voted 1 points and said: "love that even the figurehead is symmetrical "

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "🦅"

AJ voted 2 points

aubrie

(13 points)

channeling mother natures mirror in this one with the reflection of the sunset in the water 🌅🌊

Elijah voted 1 points

Kristina voted 2 points and said: "ughhh i LOVE! gorgeous colors and a water/sky mirror moment is one of my favorite things"

Hummel, TJ voted 1 points and said: "that’s such a cool and pretty shot and that glimpse of it in the water is perfect "

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "This one was my favorite by far!! I really wanted to do a water reflection photo and couldn't get it quite right. This is perfect and the colors are so pretty. "

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 1 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "super unique take on symmetry! I love it "

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "I wanted to do something like this and I couldn't get it to work. Congrats on successfully doing my idea"

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? why is my reflection someone I dONT KNOW?!?"

AJ voted 1 points

EminEm

(13 points)

With the conversations in discord around witchy things, my immediate thought was a spell circle type shot. I've always loved the aesthetic of a well intentioned spell set up. While most spells don't have to be done in a circle, circles and symmetry hold a lot of symbolism in the craft. 

There is little more satisfying than placing a well balanced, well intentioned, altar set up. Placing the crystals and candles in their spots, the harmony between all the elements, the even energy.

It also brought me great joy lighting the candles with a Gemini lighter ♊️ just felt on point

Kristina voted 2 points and said: "for the witches!! gemini lighter is a good touch"

Hummel, TJ voted 2 points and said: "Hi em!"

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "This is a really cool and vibey shot but I just didn't feel the symmetry the same way I did with the others"

Flynn voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 2 points and said: "yes yes yes"

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "I love this. Every time I look at it I see something new"

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "I love that symmetry is a part of the practice, helps it feel like there is balance among the chaos "

AJ voted 1 points

Flynn 

(13 points)

I love all the gorgeous architecture around the Philly area! I know it’s not perfectly symmetrical but nothings perfect :)

Kristina voted 2 points and said: "hell yeah, simple yet effective. it makes a striking photo!"

Hummel, TJ voted 1 points and said: "I’d be a hypocrite for typing all that for mine about imperfection being okay and then not giving this an upvote based on your description haha"

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "This is a cool perspective! I love looking up at the tall building when I'm in a city :) "

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 2 points

Aubrie voted 1 points and said: "v pretty building ! "

Jacob voted 1 points

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "architecture buddies!!"

AJ voted 2 points

kristina 

(12 points)

“this morning, with her, having coffee”

☯️

Elijah voted 1 points

Hummel, TJ voted 1 points and said: "I love the simplicity of this one, the pretty pattern underneath and the contrasting coffee on top"

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "Very cutesy "

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 2 points

Flynn voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 2 points and said: "i love symmetry with a slight difference and the different color coffees for the preference of how you and her take it is that exact sweet spot"

Jacob voted 1 points

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "This one is super cute!"

AJ voted 1 points

Elijah

(12 points)

A lovely display at a buddhist trinket shop that I stumbled across recently :)

Kristina voted 2 points and said: "very crisp and satisfying picture. plus, i love mugs 🥺"

Hummel, TJ voted 2 points and said: "This again feels like an advert or an inlay in a magazine or something and it’s so cool and satisfying "

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "I liked this one! It's very tumblr "

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 1 points

Flynn voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 1 points and said: "v cute! like little personality picture frames "

Jacob voted 1 points

Jessie voted 1 points

AJ voted 2 points

Taylor

(10 points)

I’ve been trying to keep an eye out for symmetry since reading this prompt and was having a hard time finding something. Finally, I was hiking this former railroad track in the mountains and it struck me as really interesting that something in nature would appear so symmetric. The trees on both sides of the path look so similar and the bright summer colors of the forest make you feel like you’re in middle earth. This path takes me to my favorite reading spot and it always feels like I’m in one of my favorite fantasy worlds

Kristina voted 1 points

Hummel, TJ voted 1 points

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 1 points

Flynn voted 2 points

Aubrie voted 1 points and said: "reading and fantasy i’m always in"

Jacob voted 1 points

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "the trees bending in towards the path on both sides really sold this one for me"

AJ voted 1 points

TJ

(7 points)

“The Toy Room”

I was struggling to think of what I wanted to do for this round. Life has been busy and I didn’t really have time or the drive to go find some good symmetrical architecture or nature or something.

An idea came to me then to set up a domino track but then on a long drive home I was thinking about it more and it hit me; I have never had good fine motor skills. My handwriting is atrocious to the point where really I can only read it. I was thinking about all the times I had to stay inside from recess and go to therapy outside of school just to work on handwriting. Tracing the letters and spacing them perfectly. While I know the intention was good, everyone was nice to me and very helpful, and it ultimately it did help overall… I thought to myself “that’s not what being a kid is about”. 

As a kid you’re meant to make mistakes, try your best, and let your imagination run wild. I wanted to capture that idea so I staged this photo. The idea is a more childish imperfect version of symmetry. The things match on both sides. The domino track follows a symmetrical path with the run half way done and the block falling in the arch of the house. The house has mostly the same blocks on each side but the trees are different. Everything is the same, but things are at slightly different angles, slightly different on each side but overall the feel is symmetrical. I knew these imperfections with come with the process, a natural result of my inability to create something perfectly symmetrical which is exactly what I wanted to capture.

I wanted it to be chaotic like a child’s room too. The pompoms in the foreground and sides add some color and chaos to the otherwise mostly symmetrical scene. I wanted it to be full of color and imagination as a play room should be. A messy toy room where a kid has cleared out the toys and junk from a spot to work on an idea they just had.

Not to sound too pretentious or artsy with all this, but I had fun with it and wanted to the take away to be that mistakes are okay. Imperfections are okay, and yet you can still make and do great things. Things that meet the requirements in your own way.

Kristina voted 1 points and said: "really impressed with the intention and sentiment of this one 🥺 wanted to come back actually and give it 2 but i spent all my points and don’t know how to take them back lmao"

Emmmmmmmmmm voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 2 points and said: "i love the set up and thought process behind it! "

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "Love the message"

Jessie voted 1 points

AJ said: "think someone liked my eye spy last round haha but doesn't give off that much symmetry to me"