Weekly Challenge #127 - Yin Yang

The challenge explained:

The concept of yin yang is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other and provide an environment for each other to exist. Some examples: dark and light, low and high, cold and hot, good and evil, complimentary colors, etc...

The challenge this week is to capture the spirit of Yin Yang...

Challenge Starts:
NOW! so what are you sitting in front of your computer, GO! (or dig in your archives)

Challenge Ends:
Monday, March 15th, 2010 @ 1159PM EST

The fine print....
1. Post ONE photo (max 1024x1024).
2. The photo must portray an interpretation of the theme.
3. Post your single picture in this thread, and explain what motivated you to take the picture and/or how you feel it represents the weekly theme (especially if it's not obvious).
4. The challenge is interactive. Any response is welcome.
5. The judge will pick the WINNERS and choose 1 of them to be the judge for the next week.
6. This challenge runs for 7 days plus a day for the judge to choose the winners.
7. Any Pentax camera will do or a Samsung DSLR.
8. Pictures can be from any time frame, not just within the week of the current theme.

Previous Challenge Subjects:
1-Statues, 2-Wheels, 3-Speed, 4-Peace, 5-Survival, 6-Macro, 7-Mountains, 8-Children, 9-Post Processing, 10- Windows & Doors, 11-Sport, 12-Urban Landscape, 13-Wisdom, 14-Power, 15-Music, 16-Pathways, 17-Lines, 18-Storm, 19-Boats, 20-Water, 21 - Golden Hour, 22 - Natural Lighting, Portraits, 23-Motion Blur, 24-Simplicity, 25-Color, 26-Cars, 27-Repetition, 28-Wildlife, 29-Epiphany, 30-Contrast, 31-Pets, 32-Landscapes, 33-Coastal, 34-Churches, 35-Bridges, 36-Creation, 37-Still Life: Food, 38-At the Zoo, 39-Wide Aperture, 40-Merry Christmas, 41- Sunsets, 42-Action, 43-Fireworks, 44-Manipulated Light Portraits, 45- Advertising/Product Shot, 46- B&W Street Shooting, people/buildings, 47-Vanishing Point, 48-Reflection, 49-Tranquility, 50-Expressions, 51-S Curve, 52-Hands, 53-Shadows, 54-Your Favorite Beverage, 55-Barriers, 56-Perspective, 57-Night Scenes, 58-Zen-like...Water and Stone 59-Modern architecture, 60-Sunrises, 61-Red, 62-Action on water, 63-Bodies in Motion, 64-Ruins, 65-Blue and green, 66-Iridescence, 67-Anthropomorpha, 68–Sound, 69-Backlight, 70-Group Shot, 71-Railway Scenes, 72-Technology, 73-Color on Color, 74-History, 75-Autumn/Harvest 76-working men and women, 77-Silhouettes, 78 Stranger Portrait, 79-Transportation, 80 - Lonely, 81 - Holidays, 82 - Toys 'n Games, 83 - Machines, 84 - Ice, 85 - Cats, 86 - Stories, 87 - Cultures, 88 - Absence, 89 - Weather, 90 - Old roads, 91 - The River, 92 - The Seventies, 93 - Beautiful Bokeh, 94 - Balance, 95 - Crop a miniature landscape, 96 - Opposing gravity, 97- Feet, 98 - Sacred Grounds, 99 - Extraordinarily Ordinary, 100-added textures, 101-still life, 102-bicycles, 103 - Broken, 104- Flowers (B&W), 105 Backlighting, 106-Water. 107-Wind, 108-Parent/Child candids, 109-Passion, 110-Events, 111-Streets, 112-The Aged, 113-Fire and Heat, 114-Nature vs. Culture, 115 - Letters or Numbers, 116 - Self-Portrait, 117 - The Tree, 118 - Minimalism, 119 - Rust, 120 - Before & After, 121 - Negative Space, 122 - Decay & Dereliction, 123 - Cold, 124 - Melancholy, 125 - The Element of Time, 126 - Public Transportation, 127 - Yin Yang

[atupdate]

Posted this one in the Juxtaposition Thread. I even titled it Ying and Yang.



Tim

[mel]

This was taken at the Bristoe Station Battlefield in Bristow Virginia (USA).
Yin and Yang. A silo and a tree. The straight, dead, rigid with flowing, growing organic. Or, a living growing plant (tree) and a place to store dead plants. I took this just yesterday while wandering around the battlefield but not with yin/yang in mind. It just struck me as that later while working on it.

(Super Takumar 200/4 and K20D)

[Bramela]

The large and small of it. Yin/Yang??

[sealonsf]

I took a couple of these images that made me think of Monet's waterlilies. Part of the photo is in the shade, and the other in the sun.

[Arjay Bee]

movement and stillness; life and death; big and small; circle of life; etc ...

[Tamia]

Liquid & Solid



Also white/black, moving/still, light/shadow, earth/water.

[Nomad]

Youth/aging, art/vandalism, vibrancy/decay

[reeftool]

This is the Upper Hudson River in my hometown of Corinth, NY, looking down from the cliffs above the Spier Falls Dam. The effect on the river is striking.

[MRRiley]

Come on people... only one more day to enter...

[tpeace]

Modern world meets the traditional:

[NaClH2O]

Here's mine, I don't think it needs much explanation. BTW I've seen skunk cabbage melt a hole thru almost 4 inches (10cm) of snow.
DS with Tamron 90mm Macro f11 @1/250

NaCl(it's kinda neat seeing 25 or 30 of these melting their way thru the snow)H2O

[Rense]

Okay, an oldie, but in the same series as the ones I shot today: dark and light, flat and round...

[and]

Light and dark was as close as i could get

[MRRiley]

Contest is closed. I will post the winner this evening...

Mike