This is my all-time favorite image. The kids were doing what kids do--having a blast. I was just lucky enough to be there to capture the moment.
Very minor post-processing: rotated and cropped, and pushed the saturization.
And, just in case you missed it, this was selected to be Kodak's Picture of the Day for Jan 31, 2005 (and unfortunately, I was unable to share that information publicly because that also happened to be the last day of voting for the Best of 2004 challenge). You can read about that here:
A few more from the big adventure:
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Love this image so much Skip, so much so I am adding it to my favorites along with my most favorite of yours.....I think from memory it is called "Absolutely Still".....
Thanks to everyone for all of the comments and cheers! I couldn't be happier with the way this turned out, especially considering all of the unbelievably incredible (and super-underrated) images submitted to this challenge. This was just one of those moments where everything was perfect; I'm just glad I was able to share it with all of you!
Absolutely love this shot! Nothing "gets you" quite like blazing color and exhuberant children. The more I see this, the more I like it. Hope you have this framed and hanging in the house - this would be something that would make you smile everyday!
It was a nice picture, then you added the kids celebrating. NOW it's a GREAT photo! I especially love the shorter child's stance - doing the happy dance! 8
I love looking at photos on Reuters website and this one could be one of them, this is a compliment, if you know Reuters you know what I mean. Fabulous!
I really like this - the real bright sky with the dark silhouettes. A few things bother me about this though... I find the yellow in the sky to be very distracting and the running child appears to have only one leg. I think this would work great as a panoramic image. I would crop out the yellow part of the sky and crop up from the bottom to leave just a sliver of land - that has more impact for me. Nice catch though!
You've taken this quite a long way from the 'real' with that sky. It works, compositionally, just fine; but my immediate feeling is that it might have been the more powerful for a more real sky. There is a clash of sentiments, with that very processed look and yet the candid obvious fun of the children - almost a sense of playing on the eve of disaster, perhaps? Though a lot of that comes from your title, I suppose: without which, it would be possible to see this as a depiction of terrror, those poses could be fear and flight as much as anything.
This is spectacular. Really really joyous. Normally I would find the yellow a little too much, but it seems to work fairly well here. Oh and the horizone seems to recede fractionally from left to right. Whatever. 9.
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