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Place: 70 out of 324 Avg (all users): 6.0200 Avg (commenters): 7.7500 Avg (participants): 5.9537 Avg (non-participants): 6.1905 Views since voting: 841 Views during voting: 236 Votes: 150 Comments: 9 Favorites: 0
Seems only right that I should get to comment on one of your images Janine
This is a bit of a challenge for me to give any constructive critique, for I was one of your 9s. Clearly you are doing something right! Have to confess, I could easily have mistaken this for one of Alicia's. (That's a compliment by the way!)
I was quite surprised this didn't score better. I don't know what you could have done differently to get a higher score.
Beautiful combination of detail and motion blur. Somehow I am hearing the sound of the waves gently crashing, but not the cacaphony of gulls, just their wingbeats.
He was certainly the master of suspense, but he never displayed this much grace. Well, maybe in his dreams. This is quite a beautiful shot. The unbearable lightness of contrast and tones.