but the shot is.
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ancient times.....they had aluminum tea lights?

Glad this pretentious site is closed. Run by a bunch of self seeking idiots.

I am sorry........this is not an instrument. It is the pipes of and organ. Something that emits a sound produced by an instrument. It is similar to an electric guitar analogy. A GUITAR - is an instrument. Electrified or not. Acoustically it must be PLAYED and the sound resonates from the hollow body of the wood. Electrically - it also MUST BE PLAYED in order to emit a sound - you PLAY an instrument - or use it to produce musical tones - such as the human voice. It is considered an instrument because it must be played ( = muscles exercised ) to produce harmonic tones.

But you can not put a picture of a microphone up and call THAT an instrument. It is used to AMPLIFY the vocal chords - or INSTRUMENT - to produce audible signals. Nor could you put a picture of a PA speaker up and call THAT an instrument. That is used to reproduce the tones electrically signaled by the MICROPHONE that is amplifying the vocal chords or INSTRUMENT.
Similarly, you could not put a picture of a MARSHALL STACK (electric guitar AMPLIFIER - a speaker in which an electric guitar must be plugged in to in order to produce musical tones that are audible) - you can NOT put a picture of an amp up and call THAT an instrument.


Likewise, this photo should have been removed due to the fact it is NOT an instrument - but merely metal tubes that are used to amplify the tones produced by a musical instrument - in this case an ORGAN - which is NOT pictured and probably normally placed below the wooden enclosure housing the PIPES or AMPLIFIERS.

I only chimed in because the all knowing mods removed an entry of a SINGER from a MUSICIAN contest claiming a singer ISN'T a MUSICIAN. Singers ARE musicians - the mods are idiots.
And they removed a CONFECTIONERY HOUSE from a CONFECTIONERY contest claiming it wasn't "their opinion" of a confection, more like a small doughnut (which is NOT a confectionery but considered a BAKED GOOD - even though it is fried.) You buy doughnuts and PASTRIES at a BAKERY - and candy and other confections at a CANDY SHOP - or CONFECTIONERY STORE.

Again.......idiots.

Nice axe, bro. Got a little dust on the pick guard just underneath the strings.

excellent entry.

Eggsceptional Eggsecution! Eggsactly in theme and Eggstraordinary entry! Eggsellent!

Congratulations, brother. Well deserved.

EGGceptional!

Over EGGsitement?

Really great capture........best so far. Love the way the cloud cover is illuminated by the bridge stanchion. Great photo, top 3 for sure!

ah.....the ol diaper cake. Great shot, author.

um, brr.

tell me truth..........did you do this with a hose on a bright sunny day??

Is there any contest you don't place in.......lol.
Congratulations on SECOND and THIRD, young lady. I need to pay more attention to your comments!

My closest vote to date. Well deserved. Beautiful photo. Your children?

Congrats........excellent capture. Well deserved first place.

LOVE the spider tatt!!

two in a rwo. You commanded this competition. Congrats again!

I picked this to win. Excellent effort, author. Congratulations.

congrats on 1st place. I thought you might get second as well.....

CONGRATS MATE!! BEST in Class!

Top 3 again. Well done Patty.

Well done, mate. Bravo!

sweeeeet.....dulls knives tho

Nice technique! No cutting board??

Awesome! Very bold effort author! High marks.

Right on....moon is sharp as a tack with those low light conditions, great exposure. My ONLY request might be that I want to see more of it, perhaps a bit tighter crop so we could see it better. But what do I know. Great shot - it's beautiful.

definitely raising the bar. Welcome back. Great work.

Really like this idea......great shot.

Very cool. Great perspective. Nice shot.

Ash....should've known . Great perspective, too. Very skilled you are.

Right on time. Great shot. An airport?

Love it. Inventive, well lit (especially for coins. . not real obvious hotspots), creative captioning always gets high marks from me. Nice effort here, author.

Great capture here, sir. The entries just keep getting better and better.
Well done.

Great shot......right on theme, carefully exposed. Good work.
Perhaps a tighter crop.......I find the light source to the right distracting.

hmm......looks kinda familiar..

Love this one. Great balance and mood.
My opinion - the bird is just a touch too large.....making it appear that it's intended flight path is closer to us, and will thereby miss the knight all together. Reduce the size of the bird for increased scale and perspective.

Nice image. Well done on the mask and the recolor. Did you apply some "feather texture' to the bird as well? Looks good.
An idea to increase the dynamics a touch - I would apply a small Gaussian blur to the background causing the bird to pop out some. Just a suggestion. Nice piece here, author.

wow. Right on theme....great "movement" on this shot. Makes me want to "jump in"!! Nice work Author! High marks!

excellent.........completely on theme, brilliant colors, superior contrast. Brought down my vote just an increment due the creativity loss in naming your piece against the competition. Minor detail - better than I could do.

amazing. One has to ask.......how the heck did you get this shot??

(or mid-left of the frame, as it were

love it......strong, circular (there is nearly a whole one in the upper lft hand corner!!) Outside the box, well composed - great shot author!

still my favorite here. Perfectly in theme, well composed - bravo author.

well done, bro.

Love this band as well. Many great songs, I used to sing "Getting Better" but the pipes can't handle it anymore. Great concept here, author.

IMHO however, I believe that Nikola's cigarette is to strongly lit for the image - and a bit too colorized. Perhaps desaturate that artifact some?

I also believe that Edison's guitar is similarly oversaturated and doesn't completely blend with the gray scale tone of the scientists. Take a look a the shadow cast from it as well uon Edison's torso. A little softer and more complete might help.

Really nice work here.

Love this band. Mine still covers a couple of their songs. Nice piece, author.

Well done, sir. Sorry I missed it earlier.