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Praying on Spearmint
Praying on Spearmint
bspurgeon


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Missed Focus (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Date: Sep 19, 2009
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Sep 20, 2009

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Place: 31 out of 122
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Avg (commenters): 7.7778
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Views since voting: 1495
Views during voting: 340
Votes: 124
Comments: 11
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 09/28/2009 07:53:41 AM
I say you were robbed and this should have finished higher :)
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 09/28/2009 05:05:58 AM
All the elements are just perfect in this. And in my opinion, so is the focus! (And to Steve - for all you know, the mantis WAS praying - perhaps not to be noticed or not to be eaten or for the photographer not to be Jason who would then stick the poor mantis in a refrigerator to chill it for easier posing....)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 09/27/2009 09:38:53 AM
This is cool and otherworldly looking. And it's obvious to me what the intended subject would have been. 8
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 09/26/2009 02:51:40 PM
kinda cool. I think the faded out part on the left is a little distracting but I'm guessing you couldn't control it. Works well enough for challenge. 6
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 09/25/2009 07:10:22 PM
Love the earth tones and "interestingness" of this shot. Very well done for such a strange challenge.
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Canon EOS-20D
 09/23/2009 12:43:32 PM
got it all 10
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 09/23/2009 12:35:58 PM
Can I nitpick? The spelling of this meaning of the word is "preying". The praying mantis is preying on the spearmint. Sorry, I can get a little anal about these things. I hait it wen I mispel sumthing.

Oh, and a sevvun for this piktur.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 09/22/2009 12:42:21 PM
Interesting take on this very photogenic critter. And the color tone tastes spearmint. Very nicely done!
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 09/22/2009 11:37:15 AM
This is quite simply glorious.

You get a Posthumous Blur Ribbon .
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 09/22/2009 04:50:37 AM
Oooh....embarking on HIS territory!
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 09/21/2009 01:01:11 AM
Wonderful macro. I'd have cropped out the upper white element, which is distracting.
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