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...only for a moment, and the moment's gone...
3rd Place...only for a moment, and the moment's gone...
Sammie


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Time Passing (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Location: My kitchen in La Jara.
Date: Nov 21, 2004
Aperture: F8
ISO: 80
Shutter: 2.5 seconds
Galleries: Macro, Persuasive
Date Uploaded: Nov 21, 2004

Editing: Crop, color correction, levels (with sand masked), adjust levels on sand, saturation, contrast, noise removal (sand masked), resize, unsharp mask, sharpen tool on sand, save for web.

Tried this several times and this is the best I could get. Used a Neutral Density filter (8) so I could use a longer shutter speed to get the flow of the sand. The title is a quote from the lyrics of the song "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas.

Statistics
Place: 3 out of 155
Avg (all users): 6.5165
Avg (commenters): 8.0909
Avg (participants): 6.3708
Avg (non-participants): 6.6559
Views since voting: 9307
Views during voting: 287
Votes: 182
Comments: 31
Favorites: 7 (view)


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07/27/2005 07:07:46 PM
Thanks for restoring my faith in the Lumix, I was getting worried there for a moment.
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12/02/2004 11:53:17 AM
Congrats Sammie!! Great shot! You should have won a ribbon a long time ago with all your wonderful work!! :)
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11/30/2004 09:32:49 PM
Congrats to Sammie on her first ribbon and the first ribbon for the FZ20. A most deserving shot by a truely talented photographer. WTG!
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11/30/2004 06:41:55 PM
Congratulations on your first ribbon with this well done shot, perfect for this challenge.
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11/30/2004 01:06:37 AM
It's a lovely shot, I love the lighting and the composition. I marked it as a favorite.
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11/29/2004 09:33:06 PM
Your picture was very nice and fit the challenge very well. Congratulations on your ribbon. Hope you have many more ribbons in your future.
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11/29/2004 02:43:10 PM
Congrats!
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11/29/2004 01:45:06 PM
Congrats on your first Ribbon Sammie!
Nice tone & composition.
Well Done!
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11/29/2004 10:38:52 AM
great work on a difficult subject.. congrats on your ribbon!
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11/29/2004 10:24:22 AM
Congratulations on your first ribbon!
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11/29/2004 08:09:17 AM
Congratulations on your well-deserved ribbon!! Excellent shot!! Great work!!
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11/29/2004 07:11:53 AM
Congratulations on your ribbon, Sammie! :o)
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11/29/2004 05:58:02 AM
Congratulations Sammie. I knew this would ribbon. Excellent shot!
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11/29/2004 05:40:02 AM
Congrats on your first ribbon!
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11/29/2004 12:46:29 AM
Very nice! Congratulations on your first ribbon!
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11/29/2004 12:40:08 AM
Sammie,

Congratulations on your ribbon, Van
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11/29/2004 12:29:11 AM
Congratulations on your Yellow with this dramatic shot of the old hour glass.
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11/29/2004 12:28:20 AM
Congrats, my girl!!!!! WooHoo!
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11/29/2004 12:15:33 AM
Congrats on your first ribbon, Sammie!
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11/29/2004 12:12:29 AM
Very nice photo. I somehow missed this one during voting. I also used a Kansas lyric for one of my entries in another challenge. But it was a more obscure song, and I'm pretty sure no one caught it. Congratulations on your first ribbon!

Message edited by author 2004-11-29 06:08:12.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/28/2004 06:31:17 PM
great shot. you did a superb job setting this up. just wish you'd burned down the hotspots a bit. all the same, gret composition.
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11/28/2004 01:15:10 PM
Perfect. Very well done. I have nothing else to say. Of course a 10! :-)
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11/26/2004 10:01:30 PM
nICE TITLE FITS THE PICS APPROPRIATELY..MEETS THE CHALLENGE BUT COMPOSITION LACKS A LITTLE CREATIVITY..;LQQKS MORE LIKE AND AD TO SELL THE TIME PIECE...8 OUT OF 10 STARS
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11/26/2004 09:46:52 PM
I'd thought of using one of these, but this one's much nicer than any I'd have found in time.
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11/26/2004 08:28:13 PM
One of the few images that really captures the challenge theme. I like the subject, colors, levels, contrast, focus, DOF ... so in that sense it's virtually flawless. It's a little dark for my taste. But still among my top picks.
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11/25/2004 03:58:17 AM
Sensational lighting.
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11/24/2004 02:50:27 PM
I love this picture. The lighting is great on the hourglass, the bottom is a little to shiney and the positiong seems a little off when you view it from the thumbnail, but with that said I still like it a lot and feel it meets the challeng 100%. Bumping to an 8
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11/23/2004 03:19:01 AM
All we are is dust in the wind! Cool.
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11/22/2004 10:44:34 PM
Simple classic approach is nice. I think I would have liked a bit more light and sharp focus rather than the shadowy emotive approach for this particular object, but a good shot and good interpretation.
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11/22/2004 11:41:15 AM
What a beautiful hour glass and great shot. One of my top picks.
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11/22/2004 07:36:05 AM
WoW! I love it
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