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Meteor Shower
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Challenge: Best of 2007 (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Olympus E-300 EVOLT
Location: Pink Lake, Ottawa, ON
Date: Oct 16, 2007
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Sky, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2008

 This is the Pink Lake outside of Ottawa...it's extremely still and fairly clear. This was taken in October at the height of the Canadian (or is it Canadien?) autumnul color change. Very pretty.

Yes, this is upside down. I'm sure that all of you figured that out, though. Aside from the flip, the image was cropped, had curves, levels, a bit of hue/sat, and some USM. The problem is that the reflection of the trees makes them not so sharp...looks kinda muddy (no pun intended).

Statistics
Place: 236 out of 484
Avg (all users): 5.8220
Avg (commenters): 7.0417
Avg (participants): 5.7321
Avg (non-participants): 6.0441
Views since voting: 1020
Views during voting: 461
Votes: 236
Comments: 28
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 01/28/2008 05:13:54 AM
This is one highly under rated photo! I am sure tha tvoters though you tweaked the rules and cheated you out of higher votes and that is a shame. This is awesome and you deserve to be congratulated on such a fine image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/27/2008 09:19:34 PM
One of my favourites of the lot. Inventive and fantastic colours that really combine well with the textures.
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 01/27/2008 09:13:18 PM
Wow...they are about to hit!
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 01/27/2008 09:01:14 PM
Very nice reflection! I believe that a slight noise reduction (2 pix dia)may have produced a benifical softening effect.
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 01/27/2008 08:54:05 PM
Excellent use of rotation, great effect.

Good luck!
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 01/27/2008 08:42:59 PM
Rockin' shot. Hope this is properly rewarded!
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 01/27/2008 06:22:50 PM
That is some really smooth water! Very cool. I like the upside down presentation.
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 01/27/2008 01:25:29 PM
excellent use of the upside-down technique. Stunning.
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 01/27/2008 05:49:05 AM
Clever. Beautiful colours.
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 01/26/2008 01:25:09 PM
I like this very much. You did a great job around the trees.
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 01/26/2008 12:48:30 PM
Splendidly terrific! The only minor nit-pick I have is the horizon is slightly crooked. But otherwise, I love the colors, bright contrasts, and of course, the sheer cleverness of the whole thing. :)
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 01/26/2008 08:08:53 AM
Interesting up side down shot.
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 01/26/2008 01:35:47 AM
whoa, that is disorienting! very nice shot.
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 01/25/2008 10:57:21 PM
The flipped relection does indeed look like meteors. Well done.
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 01/24/2008 03:00:07 PM
The potential of this scene was well spotted and processed very effectively.
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 01/24/2008 02:27:08 PM
At first (and this is a quick run through view) I thought you'd taken advantage of the 'new rules', but it seems this is all a reflection flipped. Nice and grows on you - like the composition, just wish that the symmetry was there/it was straightened (as I can see the edge of the reflection at the bottom).
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 01/24/2008 12:06:24 PM
Whimsical and quite fun!
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 01/23/2008 02:52:06 PM
Excellent idea, very well carried out. It took me a few seconds to get my head around it. 9
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 01/22/2008 05:34:49 PM
AAHHHHH IM CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 01/22/2008 05:29:11 PM
Hmmm..... not really sure how you got the sky to look like that?
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 01/22/2008 05:18:08 PM
Scoring high already, perhaps? Good luck!
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 01/21/2008 11:17:02 PM
Very creative image, however just simply using the tree and the sky would have been better. The fall colours are beautiful and I am sure you could have punched up the sky. Good Luck. 4.
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 01/21/2008 08:36:28 PM
It is still illegal to combine images from a different scene...but in case this was done in a legal way that I have not figured out.. here is a 7.
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 01/21/2008 04:37:57 PM
Ow! Waaaay oversaturated!
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 01/21/2008 09:29:59 AM
Very cool and creative!
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 01/21/2008 08:45:53 AM
This is either a very clever camera trick beyond my powers of understanding or it doesn't really meet the rules. If you've genuinely taken this without moving the camera kudos. Either way it's a cool shot and a nice idea.
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 01/21/2008 01:42:18 AM
awesome reflection...great title...hope this does well for you 8
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 01/21/2008 01:36:44 AM
That's hysterical. At first I was thinking WTF is a photomerge doing here, then I realized the tress are reflections and you've flipped this sucker. Or I hope so anyway :-)
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