Intelligence - Photography Contest [9 entries]

Winning entry, with a score of:

63.4%

Contest goal:

Show us a picture that illustrates great intelligence. Whether it's two people playing chess or someone who looks like Albert Einstein, we want to see it. If it's not clear, mention it in the description. Good luck!

Required level: 15+ or higher.
Status: finished. Check out the winners below!

Suggested by: magicsteve

cocor: Is the presence of people a must in this contest? ( 5 years and 2998 days ago )

Contest Moderator: Yes! ( 5 years and 2998 days ago )

kyricom: Hrmmmm... there are very few external clues as to innate intelligence. There are also different types of "intelligence." Brilliant mathematicians are intelligent, but may not be able to draw a stick figure. Brilliant artists have creative intelligence but may not be able to add two plus two. You'd also be able to compare Rembrandt with his amazing lighting with Dali and the explorations of the subconscious. Then, you may have social intelligence - those folks who are able to manuever through society without other appreciable skills, or those who can decipher fleeting micro-nonverbals and interpret people. I assume they mean shots of the stereotypes we associate with it (e.g. chess playing)? ( 5 years and 2998 days ago )

bandit69: Deep as the oceans. Vast as the universe.The human mind is infinite. ( 5 years and 2997 days ago )

MnMCarta: oh lord... more chess...::

:: ( 5 years and 2996 days ago )

adeincyprus: hahaha........... ( 5 years and 2996 days ago )

jawshoewhah: Um, what's innate intelligence, Kyricom? ( 5 years and 2993 days ago )

jawshoewhah: Man, I got to say, have no ideas for this contest, other than try someone who looks like Einstein or two people playing chess (like that's not going to get over entered) I'm really drawing blanks. This sucks. ( 5 years and 2993 days ago )

kyricom: Well, Josh... it's basically "inherent" intelligence ( 5 years and 2993 days ago )

MnMCarta: Anyone wonna take a pic of me? How often is it that you run across the most intelligent blonde, polish, left-handed chick? LMAO!!! ( 5 years and 2992 days ago )

jeaniblog: Gutted I can't come up with something here..

( 5 years and 2991 days ago )

MnMCarta: Me either! Was think of Shamu but not sure that would work! ( 5 years and 2991 days ago )

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Eureka... - created by karaflazz

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Rank: 1/9

Score: 63.4% (69)

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Words of a mad scientist
:-) (5 years and 2992 days ago)

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Eureka

Well-Earned - created by magicsteve

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Score: 62.2% (59)

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(5 years and 2997 days ago)

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Well-Earned

Newton at work - created by maclu2iaf

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Rank: 3/9

Score: 60.8% (49)

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(5 years and 2996 days ago)

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Newton, work

Intelligent ClichÃ© - created by locksmagic

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Score: 60.6% (40)

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(5 years and 2994 days ago)

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Clich, Intelligent

adeincyprus says:

so, did you out stare him author............. or did you glean any pearls of wisdom.........

nice shot btw, I like the lighting

jeaniblog says:

Great set up & execution... shame the guy's a pin-head!

friiskiwi says:

Ok, I give up, who's the intelligent one?

rbsgrl says:

Great shot! Funny comments!!

jawshoewhah [banned] says:

If you are having a staring contest with the skull... your gonna loose!!!

But sorry, maybe I'm just 'overly enlightened' this morning but could you explain to my why this fits the theme "great intelligence". I'm not disclaiming that it doesn't, I guess I just want to hear your description.

jawshoewhah [banned] says:

Hey! I totally thought you were "That" guy. Clever, author.

author says:

You would ask a question like that Josh. lol.

Ok it's my artistic representation of the famous "To be or not to be" scene from Hamlet.

If your not familiar, Hamlet is pondering the question "to live or not to live". If you actually read his speech, you'll notice that his ideas of "being" and "not being" are pretty complex. Living is, in his mind a kind of slow death, a submission to fate. On the other hand, death is initiated by a life of action, rushing armed against a sea of troublesâ€”a pretty hopeless project, if you think about it.

He's looking at a very complex and common dilemma from an intelligent and philosophical point of view.
If you look at my entry from that perspective you can see how this displays intelligence.

On the other hand if you look at it from a literal perspective all you get is me staring at a plastic skull that's far to small while trying desperately to come up with a BS story as to why it won't be off theme

jawshoewhah [banned] says:

I was satisfied with Hamlet. Oh, and that description was so entertaining. Now I'm really glad I asked for one.

kyricom says:

I like the Hamlet. Not too many people are as intelligent as Shakespeare (good explanation of the soliloquy, too)

pearlie says:

Jee, before I even read all the comments, my thought was 'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well." Nicely done, author.

erathion says:

Great "intelligent" shot author...best of luck

Karol says:

very good intrepretation!!!!

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Learning Great Intelligence - created by jawshoewhah

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Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwinâ€™s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.

I think in some cases, even reading requires great intelligence. (5 years and 2993 days ago)

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