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Published: 2005-01-04 17:11:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 590; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 67
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We are all submerged in Money. We are drowning because of it. Everyone wants money, everyone needs money, sometimes it's very hard to come by and other times it is easy. It causes much hatred in the world and I find it sickening.Related content
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thanx for the favs and watch, I appreciate it! Im glad you like this photo and that you agree with it.
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i like this a lot. stong message, clear shot.
i even prefer it from your currently featured deviation (as =doggj said 
great gallery too.
*moves mouse to +fav*
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Nice piece. very well done. I prefer it than your featured deviation. (BTW I suppose you flushed the dollar bill away when you were ready from the shoot, no?)
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flushed it away? Heck no I probably dried it out and used it in a vending machine or gave it to my sister who takes most my money
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Aha! 
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well did you read my comments? if so then you'd know that I understand the world we live in and I am too submerged in it. like my "trash WE all pick up" Is the fact that it is the only true garbage we all do pick up. No person would pass up money on the street. I too use my money, I don't give all of it away to donations, I too buy things materialistic, I don't deny that. I just think more on a corporate level things get real dirty and dishonest. I think the governments spend their money on a scale that is unfortunate towards the wrong things. Money makes people greedy but there are exceptions. I do not make alot of money and what I do make does not get strickly put into fancy things or corporate oil funds. If I said I dont even spend my money on a vending machine then I would be a liar, but truth is even when thinking about others who can't afford that it makes me feel saddened by the lack of money in third world countries when our government uses so much money just to build killer weapons.
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Hey was only pulling your leg there. You're more than right. Sorry to have upset you...
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nah, not upset, I thought you were just seriously asking my opinion on that. I just thought I'd fully explain it so I did not seem hypocritical
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I suppose that makes it even then 
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Yes but is it money that is evil? Money is just an object, a tool created man. Where is the true evil? In my business class we discussed how it isnt the use of money that is evil, but the abuse of money. People who lend money to make money(banks and credit card companies) are abusing the use of money in some sense. Back in europe a few centuries ago the christian church was strongly against borrowing money from other christians because they were essentially doing you harm by letting you borrow money and thus it would damn their souls. The Jewish people inversely were told that they should not lend money to their brothers because they were harming them and so they would be sinning as well. So how did money lending work back then? The Jews could lend money to the christians because they were not their brothers and thus it didnt matter if they harmed them, and the christians could borrow money from the jews because they were damned anyways
Wish I could refer you to the writings we read about it, its quite interesting, but I forgot who wrote it.
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Well the whole religious thing is interesting, but I of course was referencing to the people rather than money itself, of course. Money is the object. This image was showing how we (the people) are drowing in money. We suffocate from it. Not because the money itself exists but because of the greed the man has and the desires and the control. It is the poverty vs the rich, the corporations vs the slaves. Money circulation is something we have always done since the beginning of time, only it was in different forms than the dollar bill. It could also be trade or other bartering. But even then some people get carried away. I am just showing what money can do to a person. Or perhaps what the person did to themselves.
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So true.
I like the concept, and it's well performed.
The message is clear.
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thank you. I appreciate the nice comments. I am glad the message came out well.
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Strong and important message. I like the composition too, and how the image is in a way clean (almost sterile) and at the same time kind of dirty.. (I don't make much sense do I?). Good work
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No it makes sense because that is what I was going for. A dirty dollar in a clean environment. Thank you for the comment.
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thanx I sincerely appreciate all the unexpected comments on this
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great shot and concept
did you adjust the colors in this?
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I adjusted the curve, so that the shadows would be more prevailent.
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I see no harm in adjusting the colors of the photo
It looks great
Keep it up
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good. I suppose I agree haha
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A very good shot with a superb meaning behind it. I so totally agree with you!!
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thank you. Glad some people agree!
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lol. Glad you can relate
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Interesting. Nice to see a photo with a firm idea 
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Why are u a fan of capitalism and consumerism????It's horrible. Of course we all are consumerists but that doesn't mean I am a fan. I am not a fan of how it is wasted. Thank you for the support. I wanted to take a photo of societies crumbling, and money was the first thing that popped in my head
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Sorry
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Well like I said we all spend money we don't have. That is not what makes me angry, it is more the scheme of things-Society and countries. America for the most part. America spends alot of money on worthless selfish stuff and the President gets to sit back without any harm from it all. While all the poor lower class people starve and the taxes get higher while the corporations taxes get cut. It's ridiculous.
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Ummmmm....umm..um...lol......jeez... Did I mention it was a cool photo?
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Absolutely. Totally agree. Me mates are sick of me telling them this.
Great shot, composition is wicked.
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thank you
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