Collective Nouns - Photoshop Contest [11 entries]

Winning entry, with a score of:

59.8%

Contest goal:

"One of the many oddities of the English language is the multitude of different names given to collections or groups of beasts, birds, people or things. Many of these collective nouns are beautiful and evocative, even poetic." Samples can be found here.

Create an image that shows a "collective noun" visually. You can make up your own as long as it makes sense. An example of an invented one could be something like "a hug of grandmothers" or "a pouring of teapots".

Make sure to depict the EXPRESSION of the collective noun rather than just the group. EXAMPLE: "A Murder of Crows" for this you would NOT show just a group of crows but an image that evokes the feeling of both Murder and Crows ... keep the blood and gore to a minimum.

Samples:
- Sample 1
- Sample 2

Status: finished. Check out the winners below!

Suggested by: arca

downoffthedragon: Haha! Fantastic idea! ( 5 years and 3038 days ago )

arca: If you want a really good list of these you check out the "here" link in the Goal above or just search "collective nouns" there are hundreds of them including some great made up ones!!! ( 5 years and 3037 days ago )

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An Aurora of Polar Bears - created by arca

Favs: 7

SBS: 4

Hi-res

Rank: 1/11

Score: 59.8% (35)

23795 views

I could not list all sources in the URL links (too many). So I have provided link info both here and in full links the SBS.

Polar Bears are numbered as they appear in the WIP Gif in the SBS.

Links not show in list below:

Northern Lights 2x by dyet @ sxc
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1174599
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1174609

laikalis @ Flickr Polar Bear 9 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ona-m/2615694984

suneko@ flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/suneko/77184202

laikalis @ Flickr Polar Bear 11 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ona-m/2615694154

ukcookie Polar Bear 12 (final) http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukcookie/4247943265

Thank you to all the stock providers: dyet , Arctic-stock, Jisei, NefaroStock, Enbo62, blackheartedwolf, tasastock, Lars K. Jensen, exfordy, PocketAces, laikalis, suneko, ukcookie
(5 years and 3032 days ago)

10 Sources:

15 Comments

Aurora, Polar, Bears, northern, lights

A Bench of Busy Bishops - created by artgirl1935

Favs: 2

SBS: 8

Hi-res

Rank: 2/11

Score: 58.1% (30)

11361 views

Never heard of a 'Bench of Bishops' before, but couldn't resist using this adorable bench. Thanks to niallkennedy at flickr.com for the photo of the bench. No offense to anyone, I sincerely hope, for using this bench for the bishops, but just wanted to put a funny twist to my entry. Also, thanks to scottgunn at flckr.com for the bishops source photo. (5 years and 3032 days ago)

2 Sources:

7 Comments

Bench, Busy, Bishops

Bed of Flowers - created by pingenvy

Favs: 4

SBS: 10

Hi-res

Rank: 3/11

Score: 56.7% (25)

13486 views

Thanks to benkid77 via Wikimedia for the flower photo, cactusbones for the bedroom pic via flickr, and poppy2323 for the butterfly via fotopedia. (5 years and 3032 days ago)

3 Sources:

12 Comments

Bed, Flowers

A Flight of Stairs - created by artgirl1935

Favs: 2

SBS: 11

Hi-res

Rank: 4/11

Score: 56.6% (20)

8260 views

Thanks to the following at flickr.com: hypergenesb for the planet photo; alternakive for the stairway to heaven photo; CharlesLamb for the flying bird;Also, to kconnors at morguefile for the aurora photo. (5 years and 3033 days ago)

4 Sources:

11 Comments

Flight, Stairs

A Blessing of Unicorns - created by TwilightMuse

Favs: 2

SBS: 1

Hi-res

Rank: 5/11

Score: 56.5% (15)

17184 views

Having problems uploading screenshots, reduced resolution but its still not uploading. Any suggestions?Thank you to the following individuals at deviantart.com
Clouds by Dusty-books,
Snow landscape by SnaffledChestnut,
White Gorse by AestivallStock
Horse unicorn stock by Dreva
Horse 324 by BellaNotte-stock,
Unicorn Mask Snow 4 by eyefeather-stock. (5 years and 3032 days ago)

6 Sources:

7 Comments

Blessing, Unicorns, unicorn, spell, mask

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