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		<title>Copycat</title>
		<link>http://www.flickr.com/groups/copycat/</link>
 		<description>Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery?  Come and flatter your favorite images here, by copying them.  Set up a shot just like that one you loved on the flickr blog.  See if you can imitate another photographer's distinctive style. Create an homage to a famous historic photo.  Follow, don't lead!

What belongs here: &lt;b&gt;original&lt;/b&gt; photographs that deliberately resemble someone else's image or style, without actually sampling the original.  

What doesn't belong here: mechanical reproduction of someone else's work, like a photo of a photo.  Photos that resemble others by coincidence.  Anything which is not recognizably connected to its inspiration.  

&lt;u&gt;Posting guidelines:&lt;/u&gt;

Every photo you post here should link to its inspiration with a text or thumbnail link.  The inspiration should be an image, not, for example, a poem.





keywords: copy, homage, pastiche, imitation, inspiration, reproduction, duplication, imitate, reproduce,  duplicate


&lt;i&gt;Throw off the shackles of originality!&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:55:29 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Copycat</title>
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			<title>Wanted to make this group</title>
			<link>http://www.flickr.com/groups/copycat/discuss/72157628912389319/</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/ivydawned/&quot;&gt;Ivy Dawned&lt;/a&gt; posted a new topic:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Cool, just came and searched to see if there was already a group along these lines. Is this group still active? If so, will someone kindly send me a Flickr mail?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:55:29 -0800</pubDate>
						<author flickr:profile="http://www.flickr.com/people/ivydawned/">nobody@flickr.com (Ivy Dawned)</author>
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			<title>unsure</title>
			<link>http://www.flickr.com/groups/copycat/discuss/52596/</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/37799189@N00/&quot;&gt;MY LIFE AS A HAINT&lt;/a&gt; posted a new topic:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;do you want copycats of photos only or may paintings be referenced? if not, please delete my contribution, and i will work on reference to photos only. thanks!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
haint&lt;/p&gt;</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:37:38 -0700</pubDate>
						<author flickr:profile="http://www.flickr.com/people/37799189@N00/">nobody@flickr.com (MY LIFE AS A HAINT)</author>
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			<title>Reply to Copycat challenge: Empire of Light</title>
			<link>http://www.flickr.com/groups/copycat/discuss/11623/96321/</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/geegaw/&quot;&gt;geegaw&lt;/a&gt; posted a reply:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Have you seen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/selva/9967/&quot;&gt;www.flickr.com/photos/selva/9967/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:10:36 -0800</pubDate>
						<author flickr:profile="http://www.flickr.com/people/geegaw/">nobody@flickr.com (geegaw)</author>
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			<title>Copycat challenge: Empire of Light</title>
			<link>http://www.flickr.com/groups/copycat/discuss/11623/</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/ranjit/&quot;&gt;ranjit&lt;/a&gt; posted a new topic:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite artworks is Rene Magritte's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_lg_92_1.html&quot;&gt;Empire of Light.&lt;/a&gt;  I've tried a thousand times to get a similar look in a photograph, and I think I've succeeded once or twice.  I'll post my best attempts here if I can find them.  How about you?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:14:13 -0800</pubDate>
						<author flickr:profile="http://www.flickr.com/people/ranjit/">nobody@flickr.com (ranjit)</author>
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