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Challenge: Drive-By Shooting (Minimal Editing I*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Lensbaby Muse
Date: Mar 23, 2014
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Mar 23, 2014

 lensbaby picture, snow geese explosion, from car window

title is a line from one of posthumous' poems

Thank you for the generous votes and kind comments. When I happened on the geese, all I had with me was a 200mm and a lensbaby ;-) They are always an awesome sight to behold!

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 52
Avg (all users): 6.2375
Avg (commenters): 8.0667
Avg (participants): 6.3846
Avg (non-participants): 6.1667
Views since voting: 1295
Views during voting: 213
Votes: 80
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0

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 03/31/2014 04:34:52 AM
Posthumous (that poet bloke) remarked that art inevitably derives from context, or words to that effect. Ever since, I have looked at every visual work with wiser eyes, and listened to music with wiser ears (if you can imagine a pair of wiser ears?) I liked this picture when I first beheld it, post-challenge. Then I saw the title, and I went from liked to loved in one breath. Shreds of billets-doux. The picture is elevated by the words, but the words are also elevated by the picture.

Some tiresome folks among us insist that a worthy picture should be able to stand without words; without a caption or title. To which I say Pshaw! They know nothing of pictures nor of words. I'd dare them to look at this picture, to read these words, and then to step outside and say that again.

Bravo to you both, and thank you.
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 03/31/2014 01:14:37 AM
Yes top shot!
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 03/31/2014 12:29:42 AM
ya. 10. this is lit.
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 03/31/2014 12:06:26 AM
Should have been higher in my opinion, but this is a wonderful image! Congrats!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/30/2014 11:30:12 PM
Wonderful color scheme and yes, I feel like dancing!
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 03/30/2014 10:21:02 PM
How lovely!
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 03/30/2014 10:06:55 PM
magic.
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 03/30/2014 08:51:29 PM
Nice blurring of colors and shapes
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 03/30/2014 08:16:06 PM
Very dreamy. I don't know how it will be perceived in voting but I like it. 7
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 03/30/2014 06:49:07 PM
I love the golden glow. Nicely done.
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 03/30/2014 02:27:39 PM
I love this. Many won't but it is pure artistry and the light is fantastic. The effect of panning with a slow shutter and getting the blurred background with some of the birds in focus is pure genius and creates an almost ethereal effect. My vote for the blue or at least a ribbon
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 03/30/2014 01:13:58 PM
Love the light, it glows.
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 03/30/2014 09:05:52 AM
dear late winter... I have found a new love, and her name is spring...8
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 03/29/2014 01:10:29 PM
7 from me. those birds glow!
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 03/25/2014 12:11:45 PM
Hope to find out how you captured this! Awesome!
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 03/25/2014 10:04:22 AM
very sweet indeed
bump
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 03/25/2014 02:18:21 AM
Beautiful. What a wonderful effect.
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 03/24/2014 10:10:48 PM
Migrating? Spooked? Very effective image with nice warm tones.
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 03/24/2014 04:43:33 PM
I like a good abstract
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