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'Friend come for a visit'
'Friend come for a visit'
suemack


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Challenge: Best Friends (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Resthome, NZ
Date: Mar 11, 2005
Aperture: 2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Emotive, Candid
Date Uploaded: Mar 15, 2005

Mac, one of our pet therapy dogs visiting in the resthome. They stayed staring into each others eyes for the longest time.....quite wonderful to see.

Brightness/contrast, curves, hue adjustment, crop, resize, USM

Statistics
Place: 45 out of 242
Avg (all users): 5.6946
Avg (commenters): 7.2857
Avg (participants): 5.2273
Avg (non-participants): 5.8618
Views since voting: 790
Views during voting: 450
Votes: 334
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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03/22/2005 07:42:56 PM
very good
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03/22/2005 04:31:09 PM
OhmyGod. This is beautiful! Look at the love on both faces!!!!! This wins
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03/22/2005 12:21:41 AM
Good shot. Liked the people in the background. Good use of focus.
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03/21/2005 10:52:32 PM
Very touching, I can feel the sense of friendship even if it is unspoken
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03/20/2005 04:22:09 PM
great idea. background people make the shot more interesting and give us a context. good job.
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03/19/2005 12:28:17 PM
Very nice indeed.... especially with the smilling people in the background! the picture is radiating happiness... maybe a little bit more blur/lower value of the apperture would have been even better... but in the way it is right now, very good
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03/18/2005 04:07:46 PM
Take out that dog. And the picture is 10x better. You should have cropped out the stuff intruding on the left, but otherwise I really kind of like this one. Maybe I just have a soft spot for all wrinkled and bemused.
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03/17/2005 07:58:44 AM
In the small sample of the entries I have viewed so far, I have seen many dog entries, and I fear that in this group, your photo may not distinguish itself sufficiently to really stand out for the voters. It has all the elements of a candid snap - furniture, people, pictures cluttering the background, while the two subjects look relatively static. The sum of the parts don't add up to an image that really grabs the viewer either visually or emotionally, at least not me. For this dog-human connection, I think you need more - maybe an embrace with the person having eyes closed and an expression of serenity, or the animal having that look of total submission and devotion to the human counterpart - whatever. Honestly, all I see in this image is a dog, probably visiting a retirement home, looking up at a woman. I don't _feel_ a connection in them, and they don't really connect with me. I'd give it a 5 because it's a technically adequate shot, but lacks the significant "wow" factor that leads one to linger and look.
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03/16/2005 07:51:18 PM
A lovely composition
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03/16/2005 02:51:51 PM
Love the smiling woman in the background.
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03/16/2005 01:20:40 PM
Oh, I LOVE this picture! The expression on the dog's face just draws you in. I love that dog! Great job!
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03/16/2005 01:09:29 PM
this picture warms my heart
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03/16/2005 10:24:44 AM
Beautiful shot. Only the background takes away from it.
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03/16/2005 08:04:21 AM
Great expressions on those in the rear
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03/16/2005 03:05:33 AM
Lovely picture.
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