Shot at a park in Joliette, at night. It is the L'Assomption river in front, with the falls close to the high school I attended (a looooooooooong time ago!).
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Thank you all for the really nice comments. The score isn't that great but I think this is one of my challenge images that got the most comments during the voting period.
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Place: 63 out of 126 Avg (all users): 5.5374 Avg (commenters): 7.0000 Avg (participants): 5.3077 Avg (non-participants): 5.6632 Views since voting: 1032 Views during voting: 267 Votes: 147 Comments: 9 Favorites: 0
What strkes me about this is how out of place the poor bench seems. It seems so much drabber and plainer than the rest of the setting - the lovely building, the waterfall, the nice lights - and this poor lonely utilitarian bench, all marked up.
Awful lot of graffiti'd benches in this challenge! I like the exposure and those lovely starry lights. For this challenge I think I'd prefer that the fence/rail next to the water be a less prominent part of the composition, so maybe a perspective more to the right of this one, facing at more of an angle to the tall building? But then you lose the graffiti. Tough one.
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