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Challenge: Silence IV (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Boyce Thompson Arboretum - Phoenix, Arizona
Date: Feb 26, 2004
Aperture: F 4.5
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/4000
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Feb 27, 2004

 This large eucalyptus tree looms with grace and strength over a quiet corner of the Boyce Thompson Arboretum.

This was my only shot of this tree and the only editing was a slight adjustment of contrast.

Time of day was 10:30 a.m. under a clear blue sky. I used partial metering.

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03/08/2004 04:23:29 PM
very nice shot..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/08/2004 10:36:54 AM
'sentinel'
 03/07/2004 02:50:27 AM
Dont rely on a photo title to try to get across your message.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/04/2004 07:09:55 PM
Elementary my dear Watson...

This hue of blue sky over a Eucalyptus tree photographed in February obviously indicates this crime could only have been committed at non-other than Boyce Arboretum near Superior, Arizona by an outsider from a city like San Diego.

The photographer would have to come from a place where Eucalyptus is commonplace. He would not expect to find this unusual flora in Arizona. Therefore he would take a picture of it.

The perpetrator is a lone, male photographer aged 45-70. This is indicated because there is no one else pictured in the frame and only middle-aged and older men take pictures of tall trees.

Fess up! You did it, didn't you?

Sherlock (Besides, I think I have photographed that exact tree)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/04/2004 10:15:11 AM
The photo appears just a little too dark to me. I see the connection to "silence" only through the title. Without that, I think the connection is weak.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/04/2004 04:59:50 AM
Looks like a eucalypt. nice highlights
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/03/2004 03:57:00 PM
Lovely tree, if it could only talk! The image is slightly desaturated for my taste. It doesn't exactly convey silence to me (that's not what comes to mind, if I didn't know it was this challenge my first thoughts would hav been strength, or age, or steadfastness, etc.). On my monitor the background shadows are really dark.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/03/2004 12:06:10 PM
I like the way the details are hard to see - it adds to the mysterious silent effect. The blue sky poking through at the back seems to reduce the effect a bit, though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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