This shot was taken whilst I was walking along my local canal, I wasn't happy with any of the shots I had taken during the walk as the lighting was so poor. Thankfully I was able to recover the shot in lightroom.
If anyone is interested the house is for sale, only draw back is the garden is small.
Thank you for all the comments they are all appreciated.
First attempt at tilt shift so I couldn't be happier :-0
It took me 99 tries to get a blue!
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Place: 1 out of 73 Avg (all users): 6.9075 Avg (commenters): 8.7692 Avg (participants): 6.2564 Avg (non-participants): 7.0970 Views since voting: 5177 Views during voting: 406 Votes: 173 Comments: 32 Favorites: 6 (view)
Congrats on the high score, I think this deserved much higher than 6.9075. It's probably because people the voting were distracted by a certain 7.5549 scoring 'other entry' :-)
I see this is now a Blue. Well done mate! I see the previous blue was DQ'd. I was one of your 9's (I gave the DQ'd blue an 8 so I thought yours was better anyway).
I really must get my camera out again and try to challenge you.
astounded you managed to get anything close to a good shot in the North West Wet during the Christmas period! I didn't even pick up the camera apart from a handful of snapshots in the city centre. Well done on the ribbon Jon.
wow nice picture! everything is awesome! i really really hope you win!!!!!! i love how this house is really really clear, and the blur of the lake is really really good....
By far the best representation of what a good "tilt shift" should look like. It appears the user made an extra effort to separate most of the area to be blurred with great precision. I would have gone all the way by blurring the green area behind the trees on the far left of the image and blend the line between what it appears to be water and the sharp area of the pic.