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The Passing of a Summer Long Past

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34 comments

  1. gurleygirl
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    Excellent accompanying music.
    Lovely image with a most beautiful poetic tribute.
    Well done!!

  2. ista3
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    A beautiful tribute
  3. Queenieangel
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    Fantastic contribution to Rick's theme. I love the view and the sun rays!
  4. ajhardy
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    I am so glad that you got this done. These are beautiful images. It will make a great addition to the theme.
    1. Yfr
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      Me too, and thankies again for the arrow to the kneevent.

      (I have finally succumed to using that joke. I feel much better now thank you, lols.)
    2. ajhardy
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      Um, your welcome...
  5. Excellentium
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    Ah, and here it is! Funny we spoke of this just today and now I've found it. I'm glad you got help being directed to the theme. I started this event some time ago now and we're at theme number 8. The next theme is just around the corner, so this time you can be ready from the start. I've said it many times, old shots or new shots, it doesn't matter. It's all about your personal interpretation of the word/phrase, so there's no wrongs involved here. Remember this...

    It's a lovely image too when simplicity really makes everything work! Sunrays, pose of the character (or more where she's placed in the image) and some fine looking colourful grass. Add something interesting in the horizon and BAAM, you got yourself a very beautiful and inviting image!

    It's a lovely poem too! I really like the style of it, being both poetical, descriptive and melancholic, with an explanation of what life means in the cold north where summers are short. I love how it connects with Skyrim, because such verses and lyrics are dear to me. It's "fantasy poetry" in lack of a better term for it, and funny thing is, I've written plenty of such snippets to describe cultures, history and geography of my worldspace (just like Tolkien did). The very last sentence completes the poem perfectly...and it's an adorable flirt with "Winter is coming" too!
    1. Yfr
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      These events are really fun, and now I'm up to speed I can take a little more time for the next one. I don't know how people find the time to post so many outstanding images, stories, and poems here, but it's amazing and inspirational.
      Thank you for the lovely comment on the poem especially, that was fun to write. And busted, lols; I was aware of the correlation as I wrote it and trying not to go there so much (Winter is Coming), but it was certainly asserting itself from within my psyche and I think the poem would have suffered without both it's assertion and influence perhaps. I grew up in the San Fransisco bay area and I can count the times it snowed there on one finger (though I do live farther north and in a much higher elevation now). So most of my inspiration for a real winter has come from others descriptions, authors such as Tolikien (my favorite author still) and Martin, and Skyrim itself of course. That and my idea from the start was to portray the ending of the event (and so the ending of summer) since that's where I found myself.
      Looking forward to reading some of your verses in the near future hopefully too. ^-^
    2. Excellentium
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      We'll see about my poetry. It's really simple with me being a non- English native and all. I've done a few poems for very very old images here at Nexus (mostly Vanilla), but it must've been something like two years back now. You never know, but regardless your poem here was a delight to read and visualize...
    3. Yfr
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      Complexity and simplicity both have their place in any form of art.
      But what matters most is heart, and I don't see anything stopping you there either. ^-^
    4. Excellentium
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      Thank you very much for the encouraging and kind words! For that, I've looked up a few of my old poem posts here at Nexus, so feel free to read them if it interests you...

      Pillar of the storm

      Into the nothingness

      Illuminate me

      Skeleton throne

      A barred world

      Three kings

      Remember me

      The mill
  6. TeenH
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    As the others said, it's a great picture. I have a weak spot for godrays, they look awesome in this pic. I'm also glad you added that music, I just discovered a band ! I suited the theme and the atmosphere of the image.
    1. Yfr
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      Thank you very much. ^-^
      And yea, I still have to listen to more of their songs, I actually just discovered them too. It was a total random search that lead me to them, lols.
  7. kozakowy
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    Wow. The sun rays are perfect in this one. The composition is great as well Dragonsreach seen from this perspective looks really majestic.
    1. Yfr
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      Thank you so much. ^-^
      Luck was may have been more involved than normal that day, lols.
  8. fxdwgnexus
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    I can certainly feel a melancholic nostalgia from this.
    Really well done.
    1. Yfr
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      Thank you so much, that was much of what I hoped to invoke. ^-^
  9. Froloff007
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    Very nice! It`s very nice!..
    1. Yfr
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      Thank you. and thank you very much! ^-^
    2. Froloff007
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    3. Yfr
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      lols.
  10. Darkbladewriter
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    Wonderful image. Love the poem too (as a song lyric writer I really appreciate this kind of thing).
    1. Yfr
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      Thank you. And I should have guessed, that's awesome you write lyrics. ^-^
    2. Darkbladewriter
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      One of my songs even got played on the radio - twice :)