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New Year Promise
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Challenge: Season's Greetings / Happy New Year (ARCHIVAL) (Extended Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS 80D
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM
Location: Richmond, UT
Date: Dec 23, 2020
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640
Date Uploaded: Dec 28, 2020

 To make a virtual card that says, Happy New Year, without any words. I wanted to capture the serendipity of the previous year's tumultuous past mixed with the outlook of a new year coming into focus. As I was traveling up a canyon this scene all of a sudden appeared, I stopped right there and jumped out to get the picture. Post production, I separated the background and the foreground and applied a black and white to represent the past, and kept the foreground with color to represent the new year's promising future.

Statistics
Place: 16 out of 40
Avg (all users): 6.0612
Avg (participants): 6.0000
Avg (non-participants): 6.1111
Views since voting: 648
Views during voting: 96
Votes: 49
Comments: 4
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Fujifilm X-T30
Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS
 01/05/2021 09:40:11 PM
A white winter? Am not much in favor of partial de-saturation but I like the little trees
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Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 01/02/2021 12:08:51 AM
The bottom being in color but not having much color in it is cool, gives a great sense of magnitude. It looks like the top is 100% BW, and the bottom is full color... I might try desaturating the bottom just a touch... this is in danger of feeling like one image layered over another. . .

That moon looks amazing! Great job exposing the front of the mountain and the sky so they both came out!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Pentax K50
Pentax SMC DA 50mm f/1.8
12/31/2020 03:27:21 PM
Beautiful! I love it.

I would be curious if it would look better with less of a blue cast on the backside of the mountain and if the brush in the foreground on the right wasn't there. A very nice scene.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5
Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 8-18mm f/2.8-4 ASPH
 12/30/2020 08:14:13 AM
Stunning Stunning Stunning!!!!! 10
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