I have often had this nightmare and am sure many others have too. Some self-plagiarism here - yep, that's the same copper tea-candle house I fired up for Heat last year.
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Wow - what a great and thorough comment from Larus! I'm amazed that this thing burns so nicely, yet can be re-used. Excellent job capturing the flame, which I find very hard to do well.
I didn´t vote in the challenge but if I had, I would probably have voted this a 6. It´s very visually striking and you could have fooled me about it not being a doll size house, I did notice there was something that wasn´t right about the scale of the flames vs. the house but like I said, had you not written it in your comments section I would never have been sure. I do like the colors in this shot and that bush or tree silhouette in the backround really makes the shot work, without it the photo would have been too two dimensional so good placement of the model.
The whole shot is a bit too dark for my taste though, I wish you had taken it a bit earlier in the day but still during dusk to show the surroundings more, maybe that would have been worse but that´s the vibe I get from the photo, it needed to be a bit brighter.
Also, the photo seems a bit soft, I would have preferred it sharper, I noticed you use a 1/8th shutterspeed? That´s all good if you used a tripod, if you didn´t that would explain the slight blurry nature of the photo. I took the liberty of looking up your entry in "Heat" and this is miles better so you have really improved since last year, no doubt :)
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