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Challenge: Hidden Gem -- 1,000th Challenge! (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A510
Location: Alaska
Date: Jun 23, 2006
Aperture: f/5.5
ISO: Auto
Shutter: 1/400 sec.
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Mar 7, 2009

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Statistics
Place: 309 out of 1129
Avg (all users): 5.9267
Avg (commenters): 6.7183
Avg (participants): 5.9349
Avg (non-participants): 5.8816
Views since voting: 750
Views during voting: 684
Votes: 491
Comments: 76
Favorites: 3 (view)


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/17/2009 10:52:46 PM
Wow what timing. Beautiful shot.
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03/17/2009 10:38:06 PM
What an awesome sight! It really is a thrill to experience this in real life! Great capture! : )
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03/17/2009 06:19:51 PM
Wow, great capture of a beautiful moment, and what a backdrop!
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03/17/2009 07:55:02 AM
This shot rocks!!!! You almost have her completely out of the water. Ive never been able to train my pet whale to do tricks... you must let me know how ;)
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03/17/2009 06:20:26 AM
Wonderful capture.
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03/16/2009 11:46:32 PM
Exellent timing!
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03/16/2009 11:03:14 PM
Lovely, and what an awesome capture.
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03/16/2009 09:52:07 PM
amazing capture, just a little too grainy
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03/16/2009 07:17:59 PM
Nice breach capture. Like the water shedding off the whale.
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03/16/2009 03:12:32 PM
Love this! Such a beautiful scene... Nice offset composition too. Good work.
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03/16/2009 11:50:37 AM
just five because of the quality .. oh my this could be the winner.. :(


perfect moment though , you know that ;D
brano
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03/16/2009 01:52:11 AM
cool shot, very grainy
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03/15/2009 10:36:33 PM
Great timing. Nice capture.
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03/15/2009 09:25:41 PM
Great moment captured, congratulations!
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03/15/2009 06:31:34 PM
Superb timing!
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03/15/2009 04:23:04 PM
Nice capture, wish it were a bit sharper
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03/15/2009 10:14:39 AM
What a great atmosphereic capture. Well done and good luck for the rest of the challenge.
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03/15/2009 10:06:00 AM
Wow, amazing timing!!
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03/15/2009 10:05:46 AM
Lovely catch & the scenery is fab
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03/15/2009 01:25:32 AM
How long did you wait to get this perfectly focus and wonderful shot? Its striking and would made a gorgeous postcard. I can't wait to find out where this is, I want to photograph here! Stunning, really. 10
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03/15/2009 12:18:35 AM
Great mountains. Wish the whale were closer, but still bet that's a pretty impressive sight!
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03/14/2009 11:31:21 PM
Beautiful jump and mountain view.
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03/14/2009 10:09:33 PM
Nice shot
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03/14/2009 08:08:01 PM
Great. The backdrop didn't add much. Zoom or crop closer would add.
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03/14/2009 06:11:13 PM
One lucky shot - amazing
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03/14/2009 04:34:30 PM
Coming back to comment...

Wow! All I can say! Bumping up to 10.
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03/14/2009 04:14:43 PM
This is great! 8
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03/14/2009 10:14:43 AM
What a great capture.
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03/14/2009 09:33:08 AM
Fantastic capture, great timing
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03/14/2009 07:20:43 AM
right time, right place!
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03/14/2009 05:24:36 AM
overall too soft, can't see anything in focus
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03/13/2009 11:42:29 PM
Beautiful capture. Very nice layered look.
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03/13/2009 10:01:19 PM
Great capture! I love these action shots. Nicely done.
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03/13/2009 07:55:27 PM
jeesh that is amazing. great catch
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03/13/2009 07:37:15 PM
A lucky moment in time (I have been on three whale watching trips in California and here you only get the occasional tail).
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03/13/2009 07:20:54 PM
Very hard shot to catch!
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03/13/2009 06:41:26 PM
Wow! Great shot. As if the knockout scenery isn't enough!
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03/13/2009 06:40:43 PM
Great catch :)
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03/13/2009 03:09:17 PM
because the sky is a little blah, I might have cropped this down to bring the whale more into the foreground. IMO
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03/13/2009 02:58:13 PM
Extraordinary capture!!! 7
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03/13/2009 02:23:42 PM
Too neat! Whales in your backyard!
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03/13/2009 10:43:13 AM
You must have been very patient. Awesome catch!
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03/13/2009 09:32:31 AM
Wow; amazing moment to capture! Image is a bit soft but still gives me a feeling of how impressive it must be to see this in person.
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03/13/2009 06:13:53 AM
I love this , wild and natural. 7
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03/13/2009 12:43:21 AM
Wow,awesome catch.
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03/12/2009 11:32:17 PM
Looks like a winner to me and you've done yourself proud! Right place, right time, well captured and presented.
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03/12/2009 11:17:27 PM
Amazing timing!! I've spent hours floating on the water to see nothing more than a little hump slide by in the water.
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03/12/2009 10:31:54 PM
is that a whale? pretty
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03/12/2009 10:26:10 PM
Great moment, well captured!
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03/12/2009 09:50:54 PM
What a great capture! I don't know How many times I went on a whale watch and never got anything close to this nice.
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03/12/2009 08:37:30 PM
amazing
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03/12/2009 05:44:58 PM
perfect timing, colors are a bit faded.
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03/12/2009 05:10:24 PM
I really like the way the shoreline gives a reference point for the image; a very well balanced shot.
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03/12/2009 05:10:04 PM
Ooh, nice capture! I shot a lot of whales back in the day, I know how hard this is :-)
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03/12/2009 05:06:22 PM
Good action shot. OOF though.
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03/12/2009 04:28:39 PM
Perfect timing, perfect place. Perfect picture.
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03/12/2009 10:58:38 AM
Awesome timing, I really like the framing/composure.
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03/12/2009 09:59:33 AM
Awesome capture and with the perfect background!
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03/12/2009 09:55:21 AM
well composed image, but a little soft and the colors are a little flat. i would try to change this to b&w and see how that would look.
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03/12/2009 09:53:46 AM
Great capture!
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03/12/2009 09:20:01 AM
amazing amazing photo. absolutely love this.
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03/12/2009 07:07:04 AM
Excellent!.
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03/12/2009 05:02:49 AM
Made me smile! He's waving at you, you know - showing off. Or he doesn't even know you're there and is just having a whale of a time. :-) Very enjoyable shot!
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03/12/2009 03:57:54 AM
wow, great timing for this and what a fabulous backdrop
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03/12/2009 12:48:14 AM
great site to see and nice action shot!
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03/11/2009 09:20:26 PM
Nice capture!
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03/11/2009 08:11:45 PM
Just an over all amazing capture.
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03/11/2009 07:00:32 PM
So tough to capture and keep all technicals perfect! nice timing.
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03/11/2009 05:50:49 PM
Looks like a photographers dream picture! Beautiful!
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03/11/2009 05:49:39 PM
great timing... nicely done.
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03/11/2009 05:37:43 PM
Fantastic capture. The three horizontal "bands" are very powerful, making a great backdrop for the "action" subject.
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03/11/2009 04:04:50 PM
Great timing on the shutter.
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03/11/2009 03:12:37 PM
Easy to see why this would be your favorite--I hope you write a story about getting this shot. If I was so lucky & this was mine, I'd hang it on the wall.
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03/11/2009 09:45:23 AM
After spending many many hours photographing whales trying to capture a great breach like this i can start to appreciate all the skill and patience and timing this took. Well done!
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03/11/2009 09:36:17 AM
Congratulations on being part of this 1000th challenge on DPC. Keep up the good work!!
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03/11/2009 03:36:21 AM
sweet
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