Submitter's name:	Graeme Pow
Title:	Allegory of Human Life
Gear used:	E-1 + Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f2.8-3.5 + tripod
Diaphragm:	f8
Shutter speed:	15 seconds
Media used:	SanDisk Extreme III 2GB CompactFlash Card
Technical information:	This image was shot at ISO 200 in natural light. Despite the dull, overcast day my living room was still a little too bright for the effect that I wanted, so I angled my blinds and used a wooden dressing screen to diffuse the light from my window. I processed the resulting RAW file in Olympus Master 2 (yes, the free version) and converted it to black & white and tweaked it in a trial version of LightZone.
Subject information:	I make no apologies; I was so taken with Philippe de Champaigne's Still Life with a Tulip, Skull and Hour-Glass vanitas painting that I wanted to pay homage to it. Paintings executed in the vanitas style are meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. It presents three traditional emblems of transience or doom: a flower, for brief glory; an hourglass, for passing time; a skull, for the inevitable.
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

Nice classic vanitas! I was wondering if someone would submit one, and such was the case.

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