Yup - i know it was a bit of a shoehorn and pushing it, but i felt it fit the words, but not their connection to each other... meaning yes there is blur and yes there is mess but it isnt blurry mess... call it artistic licence ;)
Anyway if you were interested: B+W ND1000 used... very windy, rainy and generally good day for getting blur out of trees...
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Nice long exposure but not really a blurry mess. Only blur I see is the water, really only being smoothed out, then the tree which I only can figure is blurred from the wind. Everything is sharp which does not fit well with the challenge.
You definitely got all those elements in there! Initially I wanted to vote this down..well maybe a 5 or 6, but now that I've soaked it in I'm starting to appreciate it's genius more....
This was exactly the type of shot I was afraid of. Technically its great. It DOES have blur and chaos. In my opinion it does not meet the challenge. What I am looking for is more of the abstract blurriness where the whole scene is a blur yet it has a pleasing look to it. This shot deserves a good mark yet as it does not meet the challenge (again in my opinion) I can't consider it for one. As such I will abstain from voting on this image and merely say that I really do like this shot.
i think they wanted a blurry/messy/chaotic overall effect,while you seem to have all these elements in this photo, to me it misses the mark...but i wont be surprised if an image like this wins,good luck!
You've got the basic elements, but you added "calm" and I think that's going to hurt you in this challenge. There are some images that just scream blurry, messy and chaotic and this one is whispering that those are discrete parts of the image and not an integrated whole.
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