Haven't been hugely motivated to go out shooting this month, so I've not much to choose from for the freestudy. This was taken on a memorial ride for a Megan Babb, a young lady who was recently stuck by a car and killed while riding her bike. Her dad led this memorial ride in her honor. I didn't know her, but having recently been struck by a car myself, I felt it was important to take part in this.
This shot was actually an accidental press of the shutter button while attempting to take a shot of the group riding around me, but something about it appealed to me enough to save it from the delete button.
I figure a blurry, moody, off center shot like this will be doing well to pull in anything over a 5 from the collective. Not looking for mass appeal, however. The success of this entry will be measured by the comments it draws in.
Post-challenge notes:
Performed WAY better than expected on the average vote and pulled in a large number of positive comments, plus a high commenter's average. A complete success with this one.
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Place: 172 out of 246 Avg (all users): 5.4338 Avg (commenters): 7.6667 Avg (participants): 5.4082 Avg (non-participants): 5.5000 Views since voting: 740 Views during voting: 228 Votes: 136 Comments: 15 Favorites: 1 (view)
I really like the texture and the grain. The partial image is like "seeing" radio. Your mind gets to tell a whole story around this. Is the rider racing? First and pulling away? Last and trying to catch up? Or just someone touring, an exotic locale? Or maybe only a kid riding down the street... Or maybe none of these. Makes me want to go take pictures.
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