I received an e-mail on August 29th. The title of the e-mail is as follows.

" Congratulations, your entry made it to the "Official Selection" Round - IPA 2024! "

Dear Jeongwoo Jeong,

Congratulations! It is my great pleasure to inform you that your entry "Fairy song" has made it to the final round of jury voting and is awarded the title "Official Selection" in the International Photography Awards 2024. The final winners based on the jury's votes will be announced next month, so stay tuned!

Please login to your IPA account and verify that all of your information is current, your profile is complete, and the title of your entry is correct - you can also download your “Official Selection” badge and certificate from here.

Feel free to contact our support team if you have any questions. 

We are very much looking forward to announcing the final winners in the 3rd week of September.  Thank you for your participation, and congratulations on your great work!

Sincerely, 

Hossein Farmani 

President, IPA

The photo promoted in this contest is the same as the one that received HM at the PX3 Awards recently. Here's a picture right below.

My transcription today is the lyrics of a beautiful song from a very famous movie. Today is the weekend, so I'm watching TV leisurely, and it's been a long time since this movie was rerun, so I thought I should listen to this music and transcribe this song while savoring the lyrics again today.

Let's watch the video of transcribing this first.

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Falling Slowly (Once OST)

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I was listening to this song today and it was so good that I transcribed it. ☺

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This poem is about regretting not being able to make a true confession to a loved one in the past. This interpretation is a very direct interpretation, and it seems to contain a meaning of resentment that the lover did not understand his feelings properly, although he seems to regret looking back on me in the past.

She was an American female poet and playwright. She started writing poetry when she was a teenager, and after graduating from college, she began publishing poetry collections, becoming a great commercial success.

He was a feminist who believed in free love and, as in this poem, tried to find true love. However, he died in 1950 after suffering from a car accident, without working for a long time as a result of the aftereffects.

“I think I should have loved you presently”

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think I should have loved you presently,

And given in earnest words I flung in jest;

And lifted honest eyes for you to see,

And caught your hand against my cheek and breast;

And all my pretty follies flung aside

That won you to me, and beneath your gaze,

Naked of reticence and shorn of pride,

Spread like a chart my little wicked ways.

I, that had been to you, had you remained,

But one more waking from a recurrent dream,

Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained,

And walk your memory’s halls, austere, supreme,

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew

Who would have loved you in a day or two.

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The reason why I posted this edited photo is that if I can't reverse my regrets about my past actions, I want to move forward more vigorously.

The car scanned in this photo can be seen as a symbol of such a journey and a bright future.

The following is the result of transcribing this poem.

I think I should have loved you presently By Edna St. Vincent Millay

I also filmed a video of me transcribing this article.

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Thankfully, I won the PX3 Awards again this year. While photographing as a hobby, I was most proud of myself and was able to achieve a high sense of accomplishment.

The picture that won this year's award is titled Fairy Song. Below, I show the picture.

Fairy Song

This photo was taken on June 11, 2023. It wasn't even summer yet, and it felt great to grow cosmos in the park in advance and see the cosmos that bloom a lot in autumn in spring. This photo was taken with an XF 150-600 telephoto lens.

It was a pretty hot day because the weather was so nice. The cosmos was blooming beautifully, and a small bug stuck to a flower, so I took pictures of it, and the sun was diagonally shining, so it was a great environment to take pictures of.

The reason why I named the picture like this is because the atmosphere of the picture itself is clear and beautiful.

https://px3.fr/winners/hm/2024/1-113564-24

Next, I'll post the badge and certificate for this award

certificate

H/M badge

https://youtube.com/shorts/Vr7kfhZCM7M

It is a poem by Emily Dickinson, a renowned American female poet.
I've transcribed this poet's poem many times before and posted it on this blog.

The poem placed contrasting words in each paragraph. The happy and lonely moments are short, and in return, the chiru expresses the exhaustion and constant effort.

I think reading Emily Dickinson's poetry, sometimes it seems depressing, but it also shows a willingness to deal with the depression that she has expressed in such a way a little deeper.

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For each ecstatic instant  By Emily Dickinson


For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.

For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years –
Bitter contested farthings –
And Coffers heaped with Tears!

For each ecstatic instant  By Emily Dickinson

It's been a while since I posted today. Time goes by really fast.

I transcribed this poem into a Hemisphere fountain pen from Waterman. And I used Irosijuku kiri-same ink.

a transcription video  ->   https://youtube.com/shorts/Jin02zhMEl0

This poem is taken to mean that time passes so fast that it is not recognized that the moment of a shining life is not eternal and disappears in an instant.

Time goes by so fast that I can think of it as a lesson not to cherish the present time and waste it.

Nothing Gold Can Stay   By Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

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Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost

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In this experiment 25, I tried to staple the picture. I tried to express how I want to force myself to catch the time that goes by quickly. I'll try to put the original of this picture below.

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