There is a star in this picture. And I was definitely shooting for this challenge. There are two Christmas tree-like structures at the entrance to the Mainz Christmas market, with "stars" surrounded by lights. The pedestrians just happened to be in the frame. (There are two, I suspect, since I don't think the guy actually had three legs.)
I know that what I shoot for a challenge doesn't always translate into meeting it, but I enjoy the whole process of shooting for it anyway. This was shot with the 10-22 (too darn cold to take off gloves and change lenses) and zoomed while shooting handheld.
Thanks for looking!
[Dec. 16th, 2008 03:47:40 PM]
My apologies for the title - it was a placeholder and I forgot to go back and change it. Don't know what I was going to call it, but hadn't planned on leaving it as it is!
This is doing FAR better than I thought it would - thank you kindly for all the comments!
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Dang, another 14th! I suppose I can start collecting those instead of 13ths? :-)
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Place: 14 out of 87 Avg (all users): 6.0323 Avg (commenters): 7.6316 Avg (participants): 5.8889 Avg (non-participants): 6.0909 Views since voting: 1804 Views during voting: 337 Votes: 155 Comments: 37 Favorites: 6 (view)
I know I'm a little late in the messaging here, but this is a wonderful shot! I love the blur, the colors, the depth, and the man to give it perspective. Great job!
You can never guess in advance how one will fare under mass opinion. I would also have expected this to come in mid pack or so, however I gave it an 8 and obviously, many others also found it appealing.
Hah! This one of two 10's I gave. I can't believe it didn't crack top 5, let alone top 10... Simply one of the best shots in the challenge, emotively and technically.
FANTASTIC DEB ..
i love your place-holder title by the way .. its funny .
& its a brilliant image .. very dramatic and those colours are amazing .. congrats on a 14th place and three favs .. !!! .. :)
i feel funny about the cookies now, i was just joking around .. :)x
Wonderful zoomblur and great colors. Just enough that is recognizable. I think I will fave this one. Very curious to see how it scores in the challenge.
very good, even fascinating. Just the good motion, not too much, the star is visible but the whole is dynamic, original, and beautiful.
(it deserves a better title though...)
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