Hey this is really cool! My first real ribbon! Thanks everyone! :-)
This was taken during my Thanksgiving camping trip in Comb Wash (near Blanding, Utah). We climbed up into a cave and I thought I'd take some family shots for everyone for their Christmas cards. This is the wonderful McCollaum family posing in the picture for me. They were such great sports!
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Congrats on the ribbon! I didn't even think those were real people until I read your comments--it's such a surreal scene, and the posing is so impeccable as to seem, well, nearly impossible (especially for such a big family of presumable amateur models)!
I've been going back and forth on the negative space. My first thought was that I absolutely loved the negative space!
My next thought was that it would have been awesome as an extreme panoramic crop.
My next thought was: Either way it would be awesome, and either way would tell a slightly different story. Beautifully done -- can't see it getting anything but blue. 9 (voted earlier)
Very cool idea and very nicely shot, although this doesn't convey 'family' to me so much as 'acrobatics'! A different title may have helped, like 'supporting each other' for example.
Great poses in silhouette and I love them against the orange and white. I would crop severely -- don't see why any loss in detail would matter but I may be wrong. Maybe a severe pano with a bit off the left and lots off the top and bottom. Then you could set it off with a double top and bottom border -- narrow white and a wide brownish orange -- to bring it back to a 2:3 ratio.
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