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Challenge: Landscape V (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Location: Letchworth State Park, NY
Date: Nov 21, 2009
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1
Galleries: Landscape, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Nov 22, 2009

[Nov. 23rd, 2009 06:46:34 AM]

5 exposures, DE'd, curves, slight D&B, Adamus sharpening, SFW

[Nov. 29th, 2009 08:41:51 PM]

Some people call it the Grand Canyon of the east. If you've seen the Grand Canyon you'd laugh at that. While it may not hold a candle to the Grand Canyon, Letchworth State Park in NY is an impressive site. The Genesee river flows north through it all the way up through Rochester and to Lake Ontario.

This image is of the lower falls. There are also middle and upper falls. Much of the trail work in the park was completed during the depression by the CCC. The park also was were Mary Jemison was held captive by the Iriquois indians for some time.

I "shot" this image early on a Saturday morning, which was the first day of shot gun season around here. As I hiked to this location I heard many shots. Hopefully, the hunters were as lucky as I was.

Thanks to everyone who commented. I am especially pleased with the thoughtful/critical comments of my DPC hero Bear_Music. I will see about burning the pathway a little to decrease it's impact.

I'm hoping this will be a new personal best for me.

Statistics
Place: 7 out of 136
Avg (all users): 6.9448
Avg (commenters): 7.8750
Avg (participants): 6.8182
Avg (non-participants): 7.0174
Views since voting: 2528
Views during voting: 396
Votes: 181
Comments: 19
Favorites: 9 (view)

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 11/30/2009 09:48:31 AM
This is using all the tools to the best possible advantage - lovely shot to begin with (and I do like the composition quite a bit) then fine work with the processing. Congrats on the top ten in a very tough challenge and the new PB!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/29/2009 10:53:18 PM
Love this
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 11/29/2009 11:42:22 AM
Fabulously detailed composition of a beautiful spot with lots of nice textures and colors. Great processing.9
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 11/28/2009 07:50:49 AM
Beautiful location & great composition.
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 11/27/2009 11:09:18 PM
what an interesting place I am very interested to know where this is...looking forward to your PP notes.
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 11/27/2009 10:59:39 PM
I keep coming back to this one. It has an unusual power to it. I have a sense of "not liking" it bcause the walkway and top of the wall seem too bright for the scene (I think that's what I'm reacting too, but I'm not sure), but at the same time there's an overalls ense of etched tonality that is compelling me.

It may just be that I feel like it's divided too neatly into equal wedges, I donno.

Anyway, I'm bumping from 7 to 8 now :-) For me, 8's a very high score, especially on a landscape.
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 11/27/2009 09:41:38 PM
What a delightful blending of texture and colours in this beautifully balanced whole. The movement in the water, anchored by a single tree which leads the view to the Falls. The rough hewn stone wall, whose line leads the view to the old steep stone stairs and up into the Autumn tinged hillside offset by the towering cliffs on the left with their green crown of firs reaching down again to the water. This is superb, one of my definite favourites. I would love to walk this path and be renewed in spirit with this place.
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 11/27/2009 08:30:20 PM
Amazing and beautiful image.
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 11/27/2009 06:32:59 PM
A strong composition. Love the textures, the s curve. A very well processed shot.
I like how my eye is led through the shot to the mist in the distance. Nice work here
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 11/26/2009 09:54:06 PM
Beautiful location, nice shot.
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 11/25/2009 08:28:11 AM
nice shot, but a bit too artificial for me
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 11/24/2009 10:19:27 PM
Wonderful detail.
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 11/24/2009 08:53:20 AM
Serious tonemapping here, but with all the texture in the stone and bare trees I think it works well. Very 3-dimensional.
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 11/24/2009 02:29:18 AM
Quite different and like the weird sense of scale it presents.
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 11/23/2009 10:28:12 PM
Lovely but a bit too much HDR
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 11/23/2009 04:45:16 PM
just darn beautiful can I askwhere this might have been shot at beautiful
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 11/23/2009 02:06:16 PM
I love the PP on this shot! Just wonderful!
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 11/23/2009 09:21:16 AM
Awesome picture.
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 11/23/2009 01:18:34 AM
Nice dramatic shot. I would have tried to remove that sign in the top right as the walkway draws my eye there. Maybe you should have taken the shot at the base of the stairs to avoid that muddy footpath as the stairs are much more interesting, maybe even see some more of the waterfall.
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