I would disagree, technically. It is not at all the same as a single long-exposure shot.
It does bring a new point to mind, that hadn’t previously occurred to me, specific to the theme of “change”.
It seems to me that an entirely legitimate way to depict change, that ought to be allowed in this challenge, would be a before/after composite, showing how something has changed. That would rather blatantly violate the rule that we seem to be trying to form against composited pictures, but for this theme, I would think that to ban such an entry would be absurd and inappropriate.
And really, that is what @beowulff’s entry is, a composite of several shots of the same object, showing it changing over time.
I disagree. Showing before/after is documentary, not art. I think the art is getting “Change” into one photo. That’s what makes the contest interesting, rather than perfunctory.
Last month I posted a picture of a camellia. I gave serious thought to posting a picture of the same bloom as it looks now. There’s certainly been a change!
My alternate photo that I considered for this month. This used to be part of a bridge somewhere in Iceland, the bridge was destroyed by a flood, now it’s this… I’m not sure what to call it. Art instillation? Playground slide?
In the monthly photo thread @romansperson posted a photo of a polyphemus moth cocoon. This is a polyphemus moth that I found plastered to the back of my RAV4 last summer the morning after a rainstorm. Must have knocked it out of the pin oak that hangs over our driveway. I tried to rescue it and let it dry out but it must have suffered too much damage and was dead the next morning.
(It’s a Google photo so you might have to click to see the whole thing.)
I was going to say similarly. Being of the Saturniidae family, the adult form has a very short lifespan. At this point, they exist just to mate, lay their eggs, and die. They don’t even have functional digestive systems at this point; all the eating that they do, they did as caterpillars; and through the pupa and adult stages, they simply live off of what is left of the food they ate before they went into pupal form.
