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Comment by Denise:
stunning, congrats on the blue

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Comment by svava:
Lalli, congrats on your ribbon! Striking image. VEL GERT !!

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Comment by AllenP:
Just a superb image. Gave it a 10 and glad to see it win. Congratulations!!

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Comment by Tiny:
That,s a very interesting view Paul and a lot of it is very true,thanks for your honest opinion.( I gave it 8 myself)

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Comment by ubique:

Originally posted by bigskyeye: ... I'd like to round up the 8 people that gave it between 1 & 3 and hear a reason why, but we know why don't we ...

I will be the dissenting voice you're looking for I guess, but I know the photographer won’t mind that because he was generous enough to explain with detailed comments his own low votes on quite a few entries in the Best Of 2011 challenge.

I won’t say that this picture is painfully kitsch, because that would be a subjective judgement, or at least a matter of good taste.

I won’t say that it is a cliché because that would also be unfair: if for example the viewer is either new to photography or is a naturally undiscriminating and credulous soul then this may well be seen as an extremely impressive picture.

I won’t say that this depiction of a fellow human being is artless, cheesy, tacky and unsympathetic, because there’s an eager audience for that sort of thing and who am I to spoil their simple and presumably solitary pleasures?

I will say that I gave it a 3 because:
(a) I never give less than 3, and
(b) the picture has left absolutely nothing for me to contribute to it … it’s closed, finished, complete, shut, and leaves nothing to the viewer’s imagination. Nothing at all. There's no opportunity for engagement with it on any level other than the clinical/technical. It’s superficially pretty, but beyond that it’s really quite barren.

I mean no disrespect of course, and I acknowledge that my view is in the minority, but I hope the photographer and his many ardent fans will be pleased to hear even minority views on such an important picture.

Message edited by author 2012-02-24 12:36:50.

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Comment by bigskyeye:
My favorite too, I'd like to round up the 8 people that gave it between 1 & 3 and hear a reason why, but we know why don't we. I gave it an 8 but my 9's & 10's are as few as my 1&3's.

Beautiful image, perfect weather, model, landscape, lighting- congrats

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Comment by Tommy_Mac:
congrats on the well deserved blue!

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Comment by MarioPierre:
Congratulation on a much deserved win!

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Comment by Chinarosepetal:

Originally posted by LalliSig: Originally posted by Chinarosepetal: Great lighting and backdrop, but once your brain has seen a girl with an amputated arm it refuses to see it any other way! I think I'd have preferred the model angled round so I could see the complete arm across her breasts. No. Thx for the observation, but I do not agree with you. Because of the scene behind her, the surroudings, this was by far the best angle to shoot from, and had she turned, like you suggested, because of the direction of the wind, the chiffon would not be blowing the way it is, her left hand is holding the other end of the material. The only option to get that angle on her, would be for me to move further to the left, and then the clouds would not have aligned like they do, making for a far less interesting photo. Seeing how common it is to not see entire limbs in people photographs I am surprised to hear that your imagination works that way, had both of her hands been flat down her side of her body, would you have assumed her right arm was missing?

I meant angle her upper body towards you (other elements staying the same)so she looks less like a paralympic athlete :) (not that there's anything wrong with looking like a PA!)

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Comment by Tiny:
Congratulations,wonderful image.