I had some serious pictures of my friend's daughter and her horse that turned out decent. And still I keep returning to this picture of Biscuit and me out for a drive that I took with my phone earlier today. I worry about the blown highlights and other issues. I worry it may not convey the strong affection she and I share. Still it makes me smile. Hopefully it will make a few voters smile.
[Feb. 5th, 2012 11:21:41 PM]
I am extremely happy with the score and I am overwhelmed by the comments. I am happy this image connected with lots of voters despite a few technical faults.
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Thanks for the comments and favorites. I am thrilled with the 4th place finish and honored to be hanging in the PH gallery.
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Place: 4 out of 68 Avg (all users): 7.0710 Avg (commenters): 7.9200 Avg (participants): 7.1304 Avg (non-participants): 7.0459 Views since voting: 3708 Views during voting: 397 Votes: 155 Comments: 46 Favorites: 8 (view)
Can't believe I didn't comment on my top pick of this challenge. I completely disagree with some commenters, how can someone not see and feel the affection in this image?! Besides, I love it when such a strongly emotional photo appears and goes against all the orthodoxy of composition, light and whatnot... and yet conveys what it intended to. I wouldn't have this any other way. Congrats on the well deserved score and PH!
Thought this might be you! Congrats on the 7+ No Ribbon with an iPhone. I think that deserves some sort of ribbon. See if you can get Ken to make you one!
Heh!! I was at an intersection the other day, a car went by with a young man in his twenties with his head out the window in the back seat. He looked happy! Seems we can learn a lot from dogs.
This is amusing and in good focus but there are quite a few flaws that spoil it for me; the sky is pretty noisy, the compositon is generally Ok but the perspective makes me want to look away down the road, where there is no point of interest. The blown-out patch on the dog's head is very strong too, it obscures the face which is a shame. This is something all dogs love to do which is nice but I don't feel it particularly portrays affection.
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