Not sure why I am doing this to myself. After tanking in the cold challenge with a similar shot, I thought maybe I could do better in this challenge. Not sure that I even agree with my own hypothesis, but there you go.
It's probably too similar to the other one, but I'm not the first person to do something like that I think :)
[Mar. 9th, 2010 12:50:52 AM]
Well, looks like I was right to enter. It's amazing considering how close I was to blowing the whole challenge off! Glad I didn't. I am totally blown away by the comments and strangely high score. I wonder if it will hold through until Sunday? It's sitting at 6.65 right now with 11 comments & 2 faves.
[Mar. 12th, 2010 12:49:35 AM]
I keep having to pinch myself. Woken up to 6.96 this morning with 26 comments and 6 faves. Considering it started at 5, I cannot quite believe the steady and continuous rise in the score. I'm amazed and somewhat dumbfounded.
I thank Melethia, for encouraging me to enter. if not for her, I probably would not have entered at all! I took this on my way to the forest to shoot some tree pics (none of which I was happy with).
One commenter wondered if it was set up. No, definitely not, it is a group of skiers skiing on the lake outside my house. A regular sight at this time of year.
It's interesting to see how much better this doing than a similar image in the cold challenge
[Mar. 13th, 2010 10:08:10 AM]
dropped quite a bit today. 6.87 from 6.9875. Still pleased
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Post Challenge.
Oh heck. I wasn't expecting that. I really did not think this score would bring me the blue ribbon. WOW. Thank you everyone for the votes and all those comments.
Been thinking a bit about how surprised I am to see something blurry ribbon. I hope this is not the last time a blurry shot hits the front page.
Statistics
Place: 1 out of 193 Avg (all users): 6.8744 Avg (commenters): 8.7143 Avg (participants): 7.0196 Avg (non-participants): 6.7216 Views since voting: 8537 Views during voting: 515 Votes: 199 Comments: 90 Favorites: 38 (view)
Sarah, I just want to say you are becoming the master of beautiful, artistic blurs as well as beautiful landscapes. I am really enjoying seeing the growth in your portfolio. You're becoming a fantastic photographer! There are plenty of ribbons ahead for you!
Congratulations Sarah! This is such a wonderful image and I'm so happy that it's on the front page...and also happy about the Honorable Mention from the jury. Your a Double Winner and then some. Cheers!
Absolutely stunning! It's blurry but at the same time tack sharp. I am THRILLED that an image like this (and specifically this one) made it to the top.
I am so glad it won - really liked it right away. Excellent, truly artistic image Sarah! (would not be surprized it you double up with the jury tomorrow :))
Yay! this was my favorite. Congratulations. To me it's the simplicity, the contrast between the sky and snow, and that dark horizon that make this so wonderful.
This is my favorite of the challenge: simplicity is outstanding, three abstract yet human form figures contribute a story line, red-orange of alone figure works well with cyan of sky, repeating horizontal elements of clouds and horizon elemets contrast with the upright figures, stark white background excellent, but mostly it just has a lot of appeal independent of analysis of elements.
Grog see hunting party return. No blood on spears, no mammoth for tribe. Will have to eat Thag's tree bark casserole again. Grog is kind. Tells Thag cooking is delish.
8 - I like the uniqueness of this. In photography, I haven't seen anything similar to this (but I don't get around much these days). The simplicity and the lines and the colors and the three figures all work well and there is good balance in the composition, especially with the rise in the distant landscape on the left side with the solitary figure. The colors, while very muted, work well - if you changed any hues or adjusted the saturation, this must be your personal color wheel choice - a variation would likely have more impact for me, but this is your vision, not mine.
surreal landscape. the figures are brilliant -- will be interested to learn whether you found them or set them up. either way, one of the top shots in the challenge.
Spare and interesting. The horizontal/vertical movement in the clouds and the figures is intriguing. A pleasing composition. Personally, "fine art" photos are usually emotive for me, but this is rather sterile, and doesn't hit me where I live. I reserve judgement as to whether this is successful or not.
Love the blur, I just think there is too much white in the foreground. I think if the blurred people were longer and still as skinny, then it would be much better with the amount of white in the foreground.
I think this works really well for this challenge it looks like a real minimalistic painting but in this context it works for me, it would look great on my wall.
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