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Grazing Through the Early Morning Mists
1st PlaceGrazing Through the Early Morning Mists
AlexSaberi


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Challenge: Rural Landscapes (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Location: Richmond Park, London
Date: Aug 14, 2007
ISO: 100
Galleries: Landscape, Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 14, 2007

Taken on one of those special misty mornings. Everywhere u look is a fantastic photo opportunity.

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Statistics
Place: 1 out of 290
Avg (all users): 7.7909
Avg (commenters): 8.8286
Avg (participants): 7.4557
Avg (non-participants): 7.9787
Views since voting: 14290
Views during voting: 463
Votes: 220
Comments: 96
Favorites: 51 (view)


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09/05/2007 09:10:08 PM
Congratulations on another masterpiece to add to your portfolio.
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08/28/2007 10:29:17 AM
Knew this looked like your subjects & handiwork. Beautiful job. Love the tones and layers of light.
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08/25/2007 09:13:49 PM
Gorgeous hues, just breathtaking~CONGRATS!!!
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08/25/2007 03:06:01 PM
Wow!!! Couldn't get a more perfect picture..favorite!
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08/24/2007 07:46:05 AM
amazing...
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08/23/2007 08:58:23 PM
I need to come and visit you!... and steal some dear blue ribbons shots!! ;-)
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08/23/2007 03:44:58 PM
Congratulations Alex! Fantastic capture!
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08/23/2007 08:03:17 AM
Originally posted by Simms:

I gave this a 1

;)


Big deal, I gave this an 1 AND a 0, beat that sucker :P

Actually I didnĀ“t vote but what the hey...
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08/22/2007 11:52:13 PM
Wow! Magic, indeed.
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08/22/2007 06:39:15 PM
beautful! Congrats!
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08/22/2007 06:17:16 PM
Nice challenge-winning shot, Alex. And your web site design is very pleasant.
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08/22/2007 04:50:50 PM
Wonderful light and tone...congratulations on winning the blue ribbon!
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08/22/2007 02:57:39 PM
Sorry, but I am going to have to head up the drive to have you banned from this park. Nothing personal. Great shot.
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08/22/2007 02:47:50 PM
Yet another technically fine image that falls well short of great due to lacking creativity. Perhaps that are other areas for you to shoot outside of this refuge?
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08/22/2007 02:23:19 PM
Congratulations on your blue ribbon!! outstanding landscape with wildlife. The outtakes are also fantastic, beautiful!!
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08/22/2007 01:49:38 PM
Congrats on your win. When a friend showed me this photo, I felt like it would win! It's well deserved and beautiful!!
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08/22/2007 01:26:17 PM
Alex, congratulations on yet another win with another beautiful image. You really are one of the very best here!
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08/22/2007 12:48:22 PM
I gave this a 1

;)
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08/22/2007 11:36:12 AM
As a Utah girl, I have gotta say this is the essence of rural. Well done. I hope to see more photos from this park in the future. :)
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08/22/2007 10:05:33 AM
It's great to have such easy access to such places. Wonderful.

Excellent image. You seem to find a different view each time.
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08/22/2007 09:44:55 AM
This photo makes my heart hurt the more I look at it (in a good way). I live for my trips to the mountains where the elk are everywhere. If I weren't going back in 8 days (yayyy), this photo would make me so homesick for my mountains it would be hard to look at :)

Mega congratulations! This was my favorite #1 pick for this challenge!

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08/22/2007 09:30:23 AM
What a beautiful shot. Congratulations!
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08/22/2007 09:14:08 AM
I don't understand how people say this isn't rural! Living in the country, I remember many a breakfast where I sat on the front porch and saw scenes like this. This was my 10 and is an amazing capture! Beautifully done and definitely deserves the ribbon you earned.
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08/22/2007 08:26:43 AM
Originally posted by hotpasta:

Knew it was you Alex...I think the deer must know you by name by now...or maybe they are cardboard cutouts that you take out of the van everytime you go to Richmond...awesome mate. You are leaving us all behind in the ribbon chase


LOL, Doh! Why didn't I think of that? :) LOL
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08/22/2007 08:09:54 AM
Knew it was you Alex...I think the deer must know you by name by now...or maybe they are cardboard cutouts that you take out of the van everytime you go to Richmond...awesome mate. You are leaving us all behind in the ribbon chase
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08/22/2007 08:04:16 AM
I knew this was your's from the get go. I don't know how long you really sit there waiting on these guys but it's well worth the wait. Congrats on another ribbon.
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08/22/2007 08:03:58 AM
Congrats on yet another blue! And don't let the anal-retentive types ruin your day. I probably would have chosen Gorgeous one!
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08/22/2007 07:30:44 AM
Fooled me. :) Someone had mentioned they thought this was yours during the challenge. I thought this park only had elk, these look like mule deer.

FWIW, I didn't vote this challenge - just making an observation. :) Beautiful photograph!
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08/22/2007 07:28:31 AM
Originally posted by david_c:

Wonderful mood captured in this image. In hindsight, I should have rated it higher. How on Earth could someone give this a one? I must be impossibly naive to think there are no voting trolls.


must have been Mr Eyewave. hehe

Message edited by author 2007-08-22 07:28:55.
08/22/2007 07:27:40 AM
amazing picture. And meeting 7 deers like this is extremely lucky too!
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08/22/2007 07:25:01 AM
Wonderful mood captured in this image. In hindsight, I should have rated it higher. How on Earth could someone give this a one? I must be impossibly naive to think there are no voting trolls.
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08/22/2007 07:13:15 AM
wow, very beautiful photo! congrats on your ribbon!
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08/22/2007 06:56:15 AM
Ok, now move out of England to give us a chance on those beautiful photos. Or send the Richmond Park over here :)
Great photos, as always. Congrats on your ribbon!
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08/22/2007 05:28:09 AM
Congrats, well done.
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08/22/2007 04:17:43 AM
you could make a book with all your shots of wildlife throughout richmond park. its awesome how many beautiful photos ops your have from such a place, i bet its sweet to be able to go to a park and just shoot amazing photos. you are truly a great photographer, thanks for your inspiration.
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08/22/2007 04:13:36 AM
congrats alex, stunning.
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08/22/2007 03:20:01 AM
Wonderful shot, but not rural for me. Congratulations on your new ribbon!!
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08/22/2007 02:23:47 AM
superb picture but ... I don't think this is the most "rural" from this challange. Gives me more ideea about wild life ....
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08/22/2007 01:46:35 AM
Stunning shot
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08/22/2007 01:18:40 AM
Oh Deer ;) Just how much do they charge per session? Beautiful shot!
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08/22/2007 01:03:15 AM
Just awesome, Alex! Congrats!
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08/22/2007 12:48:25 AM
The layering is awesome. Their pose is perfect...they are your own personal deer models. Congrats!
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08/22/2007 12:45:45 AM
Amzing shot love the Golden light and depth Welldone
AlexSaberi ur work great God bless u
Congrats on another blue
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08/22/2007 12:35:55 AM
Sweet shot...Congrats
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08/22/2007 12:34:30 AM
What a perfect scene - and the golden light. Tremendous! I knew this would win as soon as I saw it. Congratulations on your well deserved blue, Alex.
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08/22/2007 12:31:31 AM
;) .. congrats on the Blue mister!!!

erm.. correct me if I'm wrong.. but I am pretty sure I heard from your own lips that you were done submitting Deer shots ;)~ Grins.. so much for that.. and why stop when you obviously have such a passion and talent for capturing them so beautifully!! Nice work Alex.. seriously another great shot.

~R~
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08/22/2007 12:22:20 AM
It's amazing how close you got to the deer. I like how they're silhouettes, and the little pathway through the grass adds to the photo. This is awesome, congratulations!
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08/22/2007 12:16:46 AM
I definitely need to visit this park when I get to London. Not to photograph it - you do that well enough for all of us - but just to see, enjoy, and relish the moments like this that you capture for us. I love that you kept them as silhouettes.
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08/22/2007 12:16:16 AM
Lol! liar! liar!
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08/22/2007 12:14:22 AM
Congratulations on your blue ribbon with this beautiful shot. Top pick for me.
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08/22/2007 12:05:45 AM
Totally awesome and my only "10", in this challenge.....
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08/22/2007 12:04:56 AM
You and those friggin deer Alex! :) Congrats on another blue! And I thought you weren't in this one...
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08/22/2007 12:03:30 AM
You're so awesome.
I never get sick of your wildlife photos.
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08/22/2007 12:02:29 AM
wow!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/21/2007 06:18:29 PM
Wonderful sense of context. I love the lighting and the focus on the grass. Very nice sillouettes. Great background!!! Best of challenge so far for me.
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08/21/2007 05:24:33 PM
Great shot. the path in the foreground leads you right to them.
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08/21/2007 01:42:38 PM
Richmond Park? I can't quite make up my mind whether this counts as a rural landscape in my own personal classification system. That, though, is quite irrelevant, as it is an amazingly beautiful and evocative photograph that goes straight in to my favourites.
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08/21/2007 01:17:20 PM
Fabulous capture and truly rural in my mind. Such lovely light and great silhouettes.
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08/21/2007 10:10:55 AM
Great silouettes of the deer against the fog bank. It looks like you converted to sepia. That's fine, but I'd just like to see what it looks like in full color with saturated grass and sky. 8
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08/20/2007 10:29:02 PM
BEAUTIFUL. 10
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08/20/2007 05:11:00 PM
Gorgeous shot. Beautiful silhouettes.
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08/20/2007 01:10:41 PM
Very impressive -- caught at a great time of day, too, by the looks of things.
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08/20/2007 12:04:16 AM
Wow, great moment to witness let alone capture so brilliantly. Excellent image.
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08/19/2007 10:49:11 PM
Tremendous. :)
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08/19/2007 10:33:30 PM
Wow. This is really beautiful. Looks like alexsaberi in Richmond Park again. Just gorgeous. (I know after reading the scores thread that it's not Alex, but whoever this is did a very fine job indeed.)
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08/19/2007 12:27:11 PM
This reminds me of Alex Saberi's shot of the elk in the mist. Maybe it is you again, Alex? Anyways, this is absolutely stunning. A 10 all the way.
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08/19/2007 07:47:04 AM
Very nicely captured. But I would have preferred cropping off the bottom a little. An 8 from me.
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08/19/2007 01:08:25 AM
Excellent shot and good use of lighting to create shilouttes.
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08/18/2007 08:50:49 PM
I like the layering. I think you could have cropped off a little more on the bottom for my taste.
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08/18/2007 07:27:03 PM
Wonderful shot.
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08/18/2007 07:01:03 PM
Beautiful! Lovely background and silhouetes... Simply a wonderful composition!!!
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08/18/2007 08:36:10 AM
OH~ Exceptional.. This one deserves a ribbon.. Fingers crossed for u..
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08/18/2007 02:11:38 AM
Beautiful 10 I really like this. I hope it wins.
Gives my a deep good feeling. great capture.
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08/17/2007 11:53:14 PM
awesome shot...though i might have cropped out some of the foreground...anyways 10
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08/17/2007 09:34:04 PM
Oh my. 10. Nothing else to say.
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08/17/2007 08:12:34 PM
Ok, this is the best one I've seen yet in this challenge. Wow!
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08/17/2007 12:30:44 PM
very nice but too much foreground, I think it would be better cropped with just half of the foreground and just a little bit more space to the sides. But this will score pretty high, good luck.
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08/17/2007 12:19:29 PM
Stunning- 10 and added to my favs, got to be a ribbon ;-)
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08/17/2007 10:09:04 AM
you are my first 10 good work!
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08/17/2007 07:29:08 AM
Interesting contrasts. Right place, right time. Nice shot!
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08/16/2007 11:03:22 PM
are those really all bucks? nice picture
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08/16/2007 08:11:10 PM
This looks like Alex's work--

Whoever made the shot, is fantastic
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08/16/2007 04:37:02 PM
Staggering!
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08/16/2007 10:16:07 AM
Excellent image. Wonderful silhouettes. One of my favorite (and highest scored) images so far. Good luck in the challenge. Yup - a 10 :-D
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08/16/2007 07:44:29 AM
I am guessing this is Alex Saberi...but if not...awesome, stunning, wow, wow, wow 9
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08/16/2007 05:04:31 AM
very good shot, like the tones, but it does in no way shout "rural" - the opposite is the case
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08/15/2007 09:21:12 PM
Very nice! I really like the colors and the layers. I would have liked less of the forground area.
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08/15/2007 06:07:59 PM
My third pick to ribbon..
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08/15/2007 02:43:48 PM
Wow man, this on a totally different level than the rest of the shots...
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08/15/2007 01:45:25 PM
Yikes!!!!! 'Bout fell out of my chair there upon the impact of this stunning photo!

Think of every superlative (all of them). . .that's my comment. 10

(back to make it a favorite)
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08/15/2007 11:23:51 AM
Amazing shot. :)
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08/15/2007 11:01:49 AM
Wow nicely done.
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08/15/2007 09:31:14 AM
This has to ribbon! The depth is wonderful. The foreground and layers of trees in the background are perfect! The foreground is so golden and soft. And the silhouettes of the deer are so sharp. It doesn't get better than this! 10
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08/15/2007 09:18:28 AM
Gorgeous shot! This is definitely a ribbon contender.
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08/15/2007 09:11:14 AM
This is lovely. The layers of trees blending into the background are gorgeous. I love the crisp silhouettes of the deer antlers. If it were mine, I might've cropped it a bit off of the bottom but no points off.
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08/15/2007 06:18:24 AM
What a beautiful scene! I like the softness of the back ground and the perfect shadow of the dears. Great work!
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