How about posting some photos you did not use for the subject "Eleven"

[Mira]

I was (still am) all over the map with the topic, and maybe by posting a few we did not use we can inspire others to find an entry:

Wet Feet

[mnhtnbb]

1. I did not use the 11 AM on 11/11/2015 photo

taken at the Sundial in front of Morehead Planetarium on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. And I took a LOT of shots. Just couldn't
get one that spoke to me.

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I also took a number of shots of Polk Place--also on campus--named after the 11th POTUS, James K. Polk, an alumnus
of UNC-Chapel Hill. But they were also not interesting. The Paul and Sheila Wellstone Memorial Garden looks out
on Polk Place--and the shot of the Memorial Garden is what I entered not because of the shot itself, but the significance
of his plane going down 11 days prior to the election--after it had been documented that Cheney threatened him to go along
with the Iraq vote or 'he'd be sorry'--and the not very believable conclusion from the NTSB that the crash was due
to pilot error and weather conditions.

[Mira]

2. Wellstone's plane crash was one of the happenings that broke my heart.

I remember where I stood when I heard about it.
Is this where it originated "....stay out of small planes!" ?
I honestly never thought it was a true accident.

[mnhtnbb]

3. Mel Carnahan's plane went down two years earlier--when he was running for the Senate

against John Ashcroft-- right before the election. He ended up being elected posthumously and his widow was
appointed to serve the first two years of his term.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/carnahan-crash-report-released/


Small plane crashes carrying politicians/officials have occurred under questionable circumstances for years.
I remember there was some question about the plane crash that killed
the second UN Secretary General DAG HAMMARSKJOLD, when he was on a peace
mission to the Congo in the early 60's.

From Wikipedia:

There is some recent evidence that suggest the plane was shot down.[11][12][13] Göran Björkdahl (a Swedish aid worker) wrote in 2011 that he believed Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 death was a murder committed in part to benefit mining companies like Union Minière, after Hammarskjöld had made the UN intervene in the Katanga crisis. Björkdahl based his assertion on interviews with witnesses of the plane crash near the border of the DRC with Zambia, and on archival documents.[14][15] Former U. S. President Harry Truman commented that Hammarskjöld “was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him’.”

[mnhtnbb]

4. Very strange circumstances.

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Other pilots flying in the area denied the weather being a factor.

This is kind of an intriguing look at what might have caused it:

http://www.opednews.com/thoreau1203_wellstone_assassinated.htm


although I would discount the "psychic mind games" theory!

and this one

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/110102_wellstone.html

[Solly Mack]

5. Thought about using this shot for kinetic.

Parallels of eleven - or something along those lines. I got all those new shots of train tracks for the perspective themed contest.

[Mira]

6. Ohhhh, that bird is phenomenal

it has a lot of character as well as being a lovely photograph. It's directly at eye level. I love it!

[Mira]

7. Another one

"A House in its Eleventh Hour"

[Solly Mack]

8. Nice. I like your entry. The feet/water is also good but I think your entry is better.

[Mira]

9. Thanks,

waiting for some from others. If not I'll pull out some more of my rejects. The feet one just makes me laugh.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Here's another one

came out of my archives when I was trying to think of something I might already have that would work.
Weather has been so lousy, I didn't know if I'd be able to get out to shoot something else.

This is the Gloriette at Schonbrunn Palace outside Vienna, built as a monument to "just" war.
Eleven Arches.

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[Mira]

11. I forgot about Schönbrunn and

now faint bells are ringing. I went to school in Vienna when I was 10 years old, a long time ago - on a continent far far away. I remember the eagle on top.

[Mira]

12. One more

"10 fingers and a clarinet"

[Mira]

13. Undeterred I post a last one

"Everybody jumped in but Eleven"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Here's two that I thought about entering:

I cropped this one to show only 11 columns:



This one was taken on May 11th:

[Mira]

16. Oh, Peggy!

Where did you find the second one, where is it? It is the slogan over the entrance to Auschwitz, but it was in wrought iron and looked different.
And about the columns - being a queen of the crop I would have taken some off the right, and completely taken out the people, the fence tops etc, and then I like it a whole lot for the subject.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Well, the second one was in a German concentration camp; I don't know which one.

I'm on the wrong computer to look it up. My vacation photos generally go onto my laptop, since that's the one I take when we travel. I don't always transfer them, unfortunately.

As for the other one, I hadn't thought of cropping it that way! It was late and I was tired, and I just wanted to see what I could do quickly!

[Mira]

19. Being German, and somewhat loaded with

national guilt, that phrase is etched into my brain. It's OK if I never know where you took the photograph, but it is new knowledge that the slogan was used elsewhere, not just in Auschwitz, and it knocked my socks off.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. The next time I'm on my laptop, I will check to see if I made a note about where I took that.

Do not load yourself with guilt, my dear Mira. I know that the Germans are doing that; we saw many books about the Holocaust and why it happened, and how to prevent it from happening ever again.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. OK, my dear Mira, I was just on my laptop, and I did some investigating.

Looks like the second photo was taken at the Terezin Memorial/Small Fortress. In German, it read Gedankstatte Theresienstadt. Klein Festung. I'm not sure which country, though.

Hope that helps.

[Mira]

22. Yes, thank you.

Theresienstadt, aka Terezin was a camp in the Czech Republic
I never knew they used that slogan as well.

[alfredo]

15. 11 11 2015, a day to remember veterans, living or dead.

[Mira]

17. It cramps my heart.

Thanks for showing it, Alfredo

[alfredo]

23. I had misgivings about showing this. But her face is hidden, so I guess it is OK.